Denmark: Rockwool recorded full-year sales of €3.88bn in 2025, up by 1% year-on-year from €3.86bn in 2024. Nonetheless, group earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) fell by 8% year-on-year from €940m to €864m in 2024. The producer partly attributed this to two plant closures, a ‘production incident’ at a plant in Switzerland and ‘lower performance’ in its former Russian business, which the Russian government forcibly transferred to Rozvitok Stroitelnykh Aktivov in January 2026.

Rockwool reduced its absolute Scope 1 and Scope 2 CO₂ emissions by 20% between 2019 and 2025, against a 2034 goal of 38%. Its insulation products sold in 2025 will, over their lifetime, save more than 100 times the energy used to produce them, according to the producer.

Looking ahead to 2026, Rockwool forecast 2 – 4% sales growth in local currencies. Capacity expansions are underway in India, Romania and the US, with a new plant project in France scheduled to recommence later in the year. ‘Several large plants’ are also undergoing conversion to electric melting, bringing total investments for the year to €650m, excluding acquisitions.

UK: Local development body Ambition North Wales has approved Knauf Insulation UK’s outline business case for €16.6m in funding under the government’s UK Growth Deal for its upcoming 100,000t/yr Shotton mineral wool insulation plant in Flintshire, Wales. The plant will be equipped with a submerged arc furnace. When operational, it will employ 137 people. Local press has reported that the Shotton plant occupies the site of a former Tata Steel facility.

Uzbekistan: Qoraqalpoq Basaltwool has launched a new US$52.4m, 50,000t/yr stone wool insulation plant in Nukus. The project is one of 437 construction sector projects worth a combined US$3.6bn in 2025 – 2026.

France: Saint-Gobain has won Top Employers Institute Global Top Employer 2026 certification, marking an 11th consecutive year as a holder of the award. The producer is one of 17 organisations worldwide to achieve the certification in 2026. Certification is based on the Top Employers Institute’s HR Best Practices Survey, comprised of people strategy, work environment, talent acquisition, learning, diversity, equity and inclusion and wellbeing.