SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited Company (SMX)

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 15, 2025 / The recent conclusion of the UN plastics treaty talks revealed both the promise and the challenge of global environmental diplomacy. For nearly two weeks, environmental leaders, scientific experts, advocacy groups, and industry representatives from over 100 countries came together with a shared vision: protect oceans, rivers, and landscapes while making the most of the resources we have.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 14, 2025 / This month's United Nations plastics treaty talks have captured global attention. The Guardian, Channel NewsAsia, and Reuters have all highlighted the scale and significance of the negotiations and the complexity of balancing environmental ambition with economic realities.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 13, 2025 / The United Nations (UN) plastics treaty talks, described as the most important environmental negotiations since the Paris Agreement, are straining under the weight of competing agendas. Over 100 countries and a coalition of scientists, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and policymakers want aggressive measures: production caps, chemical phase-outs, and bans on harmful single-use plastics.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 12, 2025 / In July 2025, the Plastic Pollution Coalition filed a complaint challenging recyclability claims made about certain types of multilayer plastic packaging. Their argument?

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 8, 2025 / Across industries and regions, momentum around recycling has shifted from aspiration to regulation. Governments are now setting minimum recycled content thresholds, enforcing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws, and pushing for detailed audit trails-all in an effort to accelerate the shift from linear to circular economies.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 7, 2025 / Tariffs have long been part of the global trade landscape-but in recent years, they've shifted from policy lever to front-line strategy. Countries around the world are using them more assertively to shape how goods move, how industries compete, and how economic priorities are protected.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 6, 2025 / Plastic has shaped the modern world. From packaging and medical devices to industrial goods and consumer products, it's one of the most versatile materials ever created.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 6, 2025 / Global trade depends on visibility. But many of the systems industries have long relied on-tags, labels, audits, spreadsheets-weren't built for today's demands.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 5, 2025 / SMX (Security Matters) PLC (NASDAQ:SMX), a company transforming supply chain transparency through technology that links physical products to tamper-proof digital records, announced in its latest 6-K filing that it has entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with institutional investors for $11 million. This agreement could bring SMX's total capital raised in 2025 to approximately $20 million, pending full execution of all funding tranches.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 5, 2025 / SMX (Security Matters) PLC (NASDAQ:SMX), a company revolutionizing supply chain transparency through technology that connects physical goods to secure digital records, today announced in a 6-K filing the signing of a Securities Purchase Agreement with institutional investors for up to $11 million in convertible note financing. With this transaction, SMX's total capital raised in 2025 can reach approximately $20 million, pending full execution of all funding tranches.

NEW YORK, NY AND SINGAPORE / ACCESS Newswire / August 5, 2025 / SMX (Security Matters) PLC (NASDAQ:SMX)(NASDAQ:SMXWW), a leader in providing "physical to digital" solutions for a circular economy, today announced the execution and first closing of a securities purchase agreement with institutional investors for the purchase and sale of 12 month, convertible promissory notes for an aggregate purchase price of up to $11.0 million, in a private placement transaction. The first closing was for a purchase price of $3,000,000, before deducting fees of the placement agent.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 5, 2025 / SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited Company (NASDAQ:SMX)(NASDAQ:SMXWW) (the "Company"), today announced that the reverse stock split of the Company's ordinary shares will begin trading on an adjusted basis giving effect to the reverse stock split on August 7, 2025 under the existing ticker symbol "SMX". The new CUSIP number of the Company's ordinary shares will be G8267K174 and the new ISIN code will be IE000TB5RTG4.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / July 29, 2025 / In today's fashion economy, style alone isn't enough. Gen X and Millennial consumers are driving a shift that goes far deeper than seasonal trends.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / July 29, 2025 / Europe is reaching a pivotal moment in its industrial transformation. And Systemiq's latest report, Fossil-Free Plastics: Driving Clean Industrial Leadership in Europe, commissioned by Vioneo, presents a compelling roadmap for reducing carbon emissions from plastic production by accelerating green methanol-to-olefins (MTO) and other fossil-free pathways.

SMX is creating a pathway that invites GenX and Millennials to capture value from a sustainability market worth billions by 2030 NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / July 28, 2025 / For years, the sustainability space has operated more like an exclusive club than a public movement-structured by governments, corporations, and financial institutions to serve their own agendas. Tools such as carbon credits, ESG funds, and recycled material programs were introduced under the banner of democratizing environmental responsibility.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / July 28, 2025 / For decades, sustainability markets operated like closed clubs-built by corporations, governments, and financial institutions to serve insiders. Well-meaning mechanisms like carbon credits, ESG funds, and recycled material schemes promised change.