Tajikistan: An unspecified private company has produced its first batch of stone wool insulation at a newly-built plant in Tursunzoda, Central Government District. The plant uses locally-sourced basalt from the nearby Qaratogh Gorge mine as raw material. Its inauguration will coincide with the 35th anniversary of Tajik independence on 9 September 2026. Asia-Plus Daily News has reported that the plant is the first of its kind in Tajikistan.

Tajikistan more than doubled its second-half imports of stone wool in 2025, to 2500t, worth US$2m. China supplied 1700t (68%), while Kazakhstan supplied 515t (21%). Smaller volumes came from Belarus, Iran, Lithuania, Türkiye and the UAE.

Spain: Rockwool Peninsular plans to invest €60m to decarbonise production at its Caparroso stone wool insulation plant in Navarre by 2028. The upgrade centres on a €48.8m replacement of the plant's furnace with electric burners. It will receive €18m of Spanish government Strategic Project for Economic Recovery and Transformation funding. The project will reduce the plant's CO₂ emissions by 74%, to 13,300t CO₂-equivalent/yr. It also includes a hybrid wind and solar power plant expansion to generate 24GWh/yr for use at the plant. The Navarre government designated the project of ‘chartered region interest’ on 29 July 2026, approximately halving administrative procedural timeframes.

Hungary: Masterplast recorded sales of €101m in the first half of 2026, up by 53% year-on-year. The producer partly attributed the growth to a 17% increase in sales of insulation. In Hungary, turnover more than doubled to €53.2m. The group turned a profit after tax of €5.2m, up from a loss of €4.6m in the first half of 2025.

The producer noted that existing inventories and a broad raw material supplier base protected its profitability against raw material price rises driven by the on-going Iran war.

India: Sarda Energy & Minerals subsidiary Sarda Metals & Alloys approved a US$31.4m capital expenditure plan on 25 July 2026 to expand its Vizianagaram mineral wool plant in Andhra Pradesh. The investment will also cover the construction of a new waste heat recovery (WHR) plant at the plant.