Hungary: Masterplast recorded sales of €171m in 2025, up by 26% year-on-year. Its earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) more than quadrupled to €9.2m. Thermal insulation systems sales fell by 3% but still accounted for the largest share of sales, at 39%. Geographically, sales grew by 78% in Hungary, by 11% in Poland and by 6% in Ukraine. However, they fell by 35% in Italy, by 17% in Slovakia, by 7% in Germany, by 10% in North Macedonia and by 6% in both Croatia and Romania.

Despite its sales and earnings growth, Masterplast’s net loss widened to €14.9m, more than triple its 2024 loss of €4.6m. The figure for 2025 included one-off losses of €7m, related to the discontinuation of a stone wool insulation plant project in Central Europe, and €2.6m in provisions for the closure of the group’s extruded polystyrene (XPS) production unit.

During 2025, Masterplast noted increased capacity utilisation at its expanded polystyrene (EPS) and XPS plants in Serbia. Other production units fell short of 2024 levels, while overall cost efficiency increased.

Ireland: Kingspan recorded sales of €9.2bn in 2025, up by 7% year-on-year. Its earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) also rose by 7%, to €1.22bn. Regionally, sales grew by 12% in Central and Northern Europe sales, by 7% in the Americas and by 4% in Western and Southern Europe. The group has recorded 12% composite annual sales growth since 2016, even as global non-residential construction output declined by 11% in Europe and by 4.5% globally since 2019.

Kingspan finished 2025 with ‘momentum across several strands of the business’ and ‘healthy’ backlogs generally. It expects a trading profit of €1.05bn in 2026, noting a sluggish start, impacted by ‘tough’ winter conditions but a firm path ahead.

UK: Flintshire County Council has received Knauf Insulation UK & Ireland’s plans for its new, 100,000t/yr stone wool insulation plant at a former Tata Steel site in Shotton, Wales. The Daily Post newspaper has reported the submitted details for the plant as involving an investment of €231m and creating 137 direct and 131 indirect jobs. The project has provisional North Wales Growth Deal funding worth up to €16.2m.

Knauf Insulation UK & Ireland Project Director Ian Gornall said "The new facility will help us meet growing demand for non-combustible, low-carbon insulation, supporting the UK's net zero and building safety goals."

Denmark: Rockwool has published its 2025 Sustainability Spotlight. In the decade up to 2025, the group reduced Scope 1 and Scope 2 CO₂ emissions by 25%, against a target of 50% by 2034. It reduced water intensity by 13% (against a target of 20%), expanded its national recycling service availability across 25 countries (against a target of 30) and reduced its materials-to-landfill by 54% (against a target of 85%). It raised the share of renewables in its energy mix by 19% year-on-year from 2024 levels, against a target of 40% by 2030. Rockwool approved €389m of new investments in decarbonisation, covering upgrades and optimisations, emissions abatement installations, captive renewable power generation and two new power purchase agreements in Poland and Spain.

CEO Jes Munk Hansen said "We now have five factories where electrical melting technology is in operation, and conversion work is underway in several more countries - including at our largest factory in Roermond, the Netherlands, where two main production lines are being electrified."