US: TimberHP has begun production of TimberBoard, the first dry-process wood fibre insulation board manufactured and sold in the US. TimberBoard is made from wood waste fibres, mixed with a small amount of binder or held together by the wood’s natural lignin, then pressed into panels. The boards are often used in building envelope insulation, such as roofs and facades, and offer thermal and acoustic insulation benefits.
Italy: Software supplier Relatech has partnered with AIT Europa Engineering to a develop a system to recycle steelworks dust into commercially useful mineral wool. Relatech’s role will be to develop plant digital twins for use in the system.
PUBT News has reported that the project, called Ares, has funding from the Start 4.0 technical excellence centre under Italy’s recover and resilience plan.
Romania: Knauf Insulation Romania has officially inaugurated its new €140m, 75,000t/yr Târnăveni glass mineral wool insulation plant in Mureș County. Economedia News has reported that the plant originally entered operation earlier in 2025, but halted operations for two months in mid-2025 due to disruptions to the local water supply. These were the result of flooding in a nearby salt mine.
The Târnăveni plant serves customers in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine. A government grant covered €18m of the cost of the plant.
Angella Ganinger, the German ambassador to Romania, praised the plant as the fifth German investment in Romania inaugurated in the four months since the start of July 2025.
Norway: BEWI has launched GreenLine Super expanded polystyrene (EPS) insulation, made using 100% recycled grey EPS as a feedstock. The product offers 52% lower CO₂ emissions than comparable insulation made with virgin EPS, while maintaining the same technical properties and performance. BEWI Circular collects and recycles 40,000t/yr of used EPS for the production of GreenLine Super insulation.
Grey EPS is EPS produced using graphene to increase its R-value.
