Sweden's prestige as a driver of the green industry in Europe suffered a very hard blow with the bankruptcy of Northvolt in the year 2025. The electric battery manufacturer could not live up to expectations and became the biggest industrial failure in the modern history of the Nordic country. A year later, another emblematic company of the green industrial revolution driven from northern Sweden has avoided a similar fate.

Donald Trump's trade war continues. The US president announced this morning that tariffs on steel imports The tariffs imposed last March will be doubled, rising from 25% to 50%. "It will further secure industry in the country," he stated at a rally held at the US Steel mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Shortly afterward, in a message on social media, Trump added that the tariff increase will also affect aluminum and that the entire measure will take effect next Wednesday. This measure would affect the sales of 427 Catalan companies in this market, according to calculations by Acció, the agency for the competitiveness of the company of the Generalitat.

Irestal Group, owned by the Boixareu family and dedicated to the transformation and distribution of stainless steel in the Spanish market, has acquired Thielmann Portinox, a beer keg company belonging to the Heritage B group. The production of stainless steel beer kegs is based in Granada.