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Below are the top 10 material transactions.
- Transaction Date: 7/6/2026
- Industry: Chemical
- Type: Acquisition/Merger
- Transaction Value: $14.5B
Solstice Advanced Materials has agreed to acquire Element Solutions in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at approximately $14.5 billion including net debt, with Element shareholders receiving $10.00 in cash and 0.500 Solstice shares per share — a 15% premium — and owning approximately 44% of the combined company at close. The deal creates an industry-leading advanced materials platform with approximately $6.8 billion in combined 2025 net sales and a 26% adjusted EBITDA margin including synergies, strengthening Solstice's electronics platform across semiconductor fabrication, advanced packaging, and thermal management for AI infrastructure and data center cooling, with more than $180 million in targeted net synergies within three years and expected adjusted EPS accretion in year one.
- Transaction Date: 7/2/2026
- Industry: Chemicals
- Type: Acquisition/Merger
- Transaction Value: $1.3B
Yara International has agreed to acquire Gulf Coast Ammonia's Texas City, Texas ammonia production facility from GCA Holdings for $1.3 billion, adding a world-class plant with 1.3 million metric ton nameplate capacity currently ramping up toward full production by end of 2026 under a long-term hydrogen and nitrogen supply agreement with Air Products. The deal diversifies Yara's energy exposure toward U.S. Henry Hub gas pricing, strengthens its global ammonia cost curve position, and advances its strategy of capturing economies of scale in ammonia production while preserving optionality for a step-wise entry into low-carbon ammonia subject to regulatory and financial developments.
- Transaction Date: 7/27/2026
- Industry: Chemicals
- Type: Acquisition/Merger
- Transaction Value: $1.066B
TransDigm has agreed to acquire Prince & Izant, a leading global designer and manufacturer of highly engineered brazing alloys and specialty metal components, from Industrial Growth Partners for approximately $1.066 billion in cash including certain tax benefits. The Cleveland-based company, expected to generate approximately $360 million in 2026 revenue with the majority derived from aftermarket sales across aerospace and defense, aeroderivative turbine, and transportation end markets, aligns with TransDigm's acquisition criteria through its highly proprietary products spanning nearly 10,000 active SKUs built on deep advanced metallurgy and precious metal alloy formulation expertise.
- Transaction Date: 7/29/2026
- Industry: Metals & Mining
- Type: Growth Equity
- Transaction Value: $295M
Zijin Gold International Company Limited has made a strategic minority equity investment of approximately US$295 million in Allied Gold Corporation, acquiring approximately 12.8 million common shares at C$32.55 per share — representing a premium to Allied Gold's current market price — for an approximately 9.2% ownership stake. The investment, which replaces a previously announced C$5.5 billion full acquisition that was terminated due to regulatory closing conditions, will fund the ramp-up of the Kurmuk mine in Ethiopia, the phased expansion of Sadiola in Mali, and growth initiatives at Allied's Côte d'Ivoire CDI Complex.
- Transaction Date: 7/16/2026
- Industry: Construction Materials
- Type: Acquisition/Merger
- Transaction Value: $203M
ARRAY Technologies has agreed to acquire Affordable Wire Management (AWM), a leading provider of wire management, cable protection, and balance-of-system solutions for utility-scale solar and energy storage projects, for total consideration of $203 million — comprising a $153 million base price plus up to $50 million in additional earnout and milestone payments — representing approximately 8.8x AWM's trailing twelve-month EBITDA on nearly $60 million in TTM revenue. The deal extends ARRAY's portfolio beyond solar tracking into wire management and cable protection while opening new growth vectors in battery energy storage and data center markets, with the acquisition expected to be high single-digit accretive to ARRAY's adjusted EPS in year one before synergies.
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- Transaction Date: 7/1/2026
- Industry: Metals & Mining
- Type: Acquisition/Merger
- Transaction Value: $147.5M
Aeris Resources has completed the acquisition of 100% of Peel Mining through a scheme of arrangement, with Peel shareholders receiving 0.3363 Aeris shares per Peel share held, significantly strengthening Aeris' Tritton Copper Operations in New South Wales and expanding the company's long-term growth platform. The all-scrip transaction adds Peel's complementary copper and precious metals assets to Aeris' existing portfolio of the Tritton Copper Operations and Cracow Gold Operations in Queensland, supporting the company's strategy to grow production and create sustained shareholder value as an Australian mid-tier copper and gold producer.
- Transaction Date: 7/16/2026
- Industry: Containers & Packaging
- Type: Venture
- Transaction Value: $30M
Syntetica, a deeptech textile recycling company, has raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Bpifrance's Ecotechnologies 2 fund with participation from SWEN Capital Partners, lululemon, MAS Holdings, EQT Ventures, and family offices including Peugeot, Etam, and Indorama Ventures' largest shareholder, to scale its patented nylon recycling platform to industrial production. The company's technology uniquely processes both Nylon 6 and Nylon 6,6 from mixed post-consumer textile waste in a single process — eliminating the need to pre-sort nylon types — and will use the capital to build its first commercial demonstration facility in partnership with Michelin's Centre for Sustainable Materials in Clermont-Ferrand.
- Transaction Date: 7/2/2026
- Industry: Chemicals
- Type: Venture
- Transaction Value: $11M
BatX Energies, a Gurugram-based battery recycling and critical minerals recovery startup, has raised Rs 105 crore ($11 million) in a Series A round led by IvyCap Ventures with participation from existing investors Zephyr Peacock, Mankind Pharma Family Office, Excel Industries Family Office, and JITO. The capital will expand BatX's recycling and refining capacity, strengthen R&D, and accelerate development of a domestic Indian supply chain for battery materials including lithium, cobalt, nickel, and graphite recovered from end-of-life batteries and manufacturing scrap, as the company advances toward commercial-scale Cathode Active Material production for lithium-ion battery manufacturing.
- Transaction Date: 7/29/2026
- Industry: Metals & Mining
- Type: Venture
- Transaction Value: $4.3M
FAST Metals, a mining technology company recovering critical minerals from red mud bauxite tailings and other iron-rich waste, has raised $4.3 million in pre-seed funding led by New Climate Ventures with backing from Azolla Ventures, Humba Ventures, Astor Swiss, and Rio Tinto via its Founders Factory mining tech accelerator. The company has simultaneously announced its first commercial customer Metalox Mineral Corporation, under which it will process one ton of red mud per week at Metalox's Florida facility, as it targets the estimated $3–4 trillion of recoverable metals — including aluminum, scandium, titanium, rare earth elements, and gallium — locked in the world's four billion tons of accumulated red mud waste stockpiles.
- Transaction Date: 7/7/2026
- Industry: Containers & Packaging
- Type: Venture
- Transaction Value: $4.2M
Econovus Packaging, a Pune-based engineered sustainable packaging company, has raised Rs 40 crore in a pre-Series A round led by Rainmatter by Zerodha with participation from Rockstud Capital, to expand its sustainable packaging platform across high-growth sectors including automotive, lithium-ion batteries, solar infrastructure, steel, and defense. The company's IP-backed materials and design-to-cost methodology delivers UN-certified battery packaging, heavy-duty export packaging, and automotive CKD/SKD/CBU solutions that reduce logistics costs, improve container utilization, and lower supply chain carbon footprint as India's engineering exports reach record levels driving demand for internationally compliant packaging.
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