The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (SCMC) is to build its first European research, development and design centre near Munich, the Taipei Times reports. The company said the facility would improve…

The European arm of Japan’s Hitachi Construction Machinery (HCME) has partnered with Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands on a two-year project to predict the remaining life…

UK equipment maker JCB has secured the European Union’s approval to sell its hydrogen engines in primary or third-party non-road mobile machinery across the EU and in other markets that…

Europe’s construction industry is globally respected for its engineering excellence and sustainability leadership, but it often struggles to convert innovation into scalable commercial success. Technologies like modular timber-hybrid systems, AI-powered…

The European Commission, the main executive body of the EU, has imposed extra “anti-subsidy” duties on Chinese mobile access equipment such as forklifts, scissor lifts and boom lifts. Ranging from…

UK-headquartered Mace has appointed industry heavyweight, Gary Sweeney, to lead its European team working in the healthcare, life sciences and technology sectors. He joins Mace after a spell as interim…

Spanish entrepreneur Javier Romero has signed an agreement with a Chinese tech company to develop Europe’s biggest computing centre in Malaga, southern Spain, news agency Xinhua reports.  The deal was…

Four countries are considering a plan to lay the world’s longest undersea power line between wind farms in the Caspian Sea and southeast Europe. Azerbaijan, Georgia, Bulgaria and Romania discussed…

Construction activity in the Eurozone has recorded its 34th straight month of decline, according to the latest PMI survey from S&P Global and the Hamburg Commercial Bank (HCOB). Sentiment among…

Management consultant Bain & Company predicts a recovery in some of Europe’s biggest construction markets in 2025 after a two-year slump over 2023-24. Its analysis covers the UK, the Nordics,…

The EU’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) has signed two agreements worth €1.4bn in an effort to speed up completion of the Rail Baltica project. Of this amount, €1.2bn will be…

Chinese battery-maker SVOLT Energy Technology has decided to close its European operations. The decision comes after media reports said it had indefinitely suspended plans to build two battery plants in…

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland have asked the EU to help them pay for new fortifications along their borders with Russia and its ally, Belarus. The defence ministers of the…

Hamburg Commercial Bank’s latest survey of sentiment among construction’s purchasing managers has shown that the Eurozone’s industry remains obscured by gloom, with new orders continuing to fall as prices and…

The European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC) has broken ground on its €10bn chip fabrication plant in Dresden. The plant will get €5bn in state aid from Germany and €3.5bn from…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and publicly-owned Spanish infrastructure group Adif Alta Velocidad have agreed to loan €430m towards a 182km high-speed rail line in Spain’s Basque Province. The double-track…

The European Commission has approved a plan by the Netherlands to spend €2bn on a new medical isotope production facility in Petten, about 220km north of Amsterdam. The plan is…

Belgian marine contractor Jan De Nul and Australian mining company Fortescue have pledged to lay a 1,000km subsea transmission line to carry solar power from Africa to Europe. The agreement…