Marina, California – October 21, 2026 -- The Brass Tap's Marina, California, location posted the highest sales volume in the franchise's system during its first full year of operation, earning owner Karl Waller the Highest Sales Volume Award at the 2026 FSC Franchise Conference.

The honor follows Waller's 2025 Franchisee of the Year title. The upscale American tavern brand operates more than 50 locations across 16 states and has offered franchise opportunities for more than 10 years.

Food became an equal traffic driver alongside craft beer in Marina

Waller initially expected craft beer to drive most of the restaurant's traffic. Food quickly became an equally important part of the business, drawing families as well as guests seeking drinks and entertainment. He and his family have continued to adjust the operation to local demand, including building out the food and events side.

Fresno – October 21, 2026 -- Bar None Auction will sell the fleet of Bill Nelson General Engineering Construction, Inc. online on Friday, Oct. 30, 2026, with lots starting to close at 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time. The sale follows the retirement of owner Bill Nelson, who is closing the company after more than three decades in California's Central Valley.

Late-model Caterpillar units anchor a 2022-2025 lineup

Featured lots include a 2025 Caterpillar 420 loader backhoe, a 2023 Caterpillar 325 hydraulic excavator, a 2023 Caterpillar 930M wheel loader and a 2022 Caterpillar 279D3 skid steer loader. Additional 325-series excavators, 930M wheel loaders and multiple 420-series loader backhoes are also listed.

The sale also covers Freightliner trucks, water trucks, trailers, towable air compressors, Asphalt Zipper machines and compaction equipment. Buckets, compaction wheels and other attachments round out the catalog.

TORONTO – October 21, 2026 -- Rock Tech Lithium Inc. (TSXV: RCK) has appointed Andreas Rickert, founder of Phineo, as an external Strategic Advisor to support its search for long-term investors and strategic partners.

Rickert to advise on positioning and partner outreach

Rickert's career includes positions at McKinsey and The World Bank. He has an established network across German business, investment and philanthropic communities.

He will work with Rock Tech on an advisory basis. His remit covers strategic counsel on the company's positioning, engagement with relevant business stakeholders, and support in building relationships with potential investors and strategic partners.

FLORHAM PARK – October 21, 2026 -- Reworld has appointed Robert "Mickey" McKee, founder, President and CEO of NYSE-listed Kodiak Gas Services (KGS), to its Board of Directors, effective October 1, 2026.

McKee brings more than two decades of energy infrastructure experience to the Reworld board

McKee founded the Kodiak group of companies in 2010. He has served as President since its formation and as CEO since 2019. Under his direction, Kodiak became one of the leading operators of contract compression infrastructure in the United States.

He led Kodiak through its 2023 initial public offering and its recent expansion into distributed power generation. He has also sat on Kodiak's Board of Directors since 2023.

DURHAM – October 21, 2026 -- NineTenths, a Saudi Arabia-based technology company founded in 2019, has joined ISASecure, the certification program that validates conformance to the ISA/IEC 62443 cybersecurity standards for industrial automation and control systems (IACS), the International Society of Automation (ISA) announced.

NineTenths ties its OT security services to ISA/IEC 62443

The company works in drones, robotics, infrastructure inspection, surveying and operational technology (OT) cybersecurity. Its clients span oil and gas, petrochemicals, energy, water and wastewater, manufacturing and other critical infrastructure.

NineTenths already uses ISA/IEC 62443 as the framework for its OT security services. Its capabilities are aligned to cybersecurity management systems, risk-based assessments, zones and conduits, industrial system security requirements and secure product development practices.

San Francisco – October 21, 2026 -- Crest Data has added 15 commercial plugins to the Grafana Marketplace, more than doubling its portfolio to 25 as Grafana Labs moves the Marketplace to general availability at ObservabilityCON 2026.

Plugins query source systems via APIs without exporters or ingestion costs

All 25 plugins are native, agentless data source plugins that query their source systems through APIs. Crest Data states they require no exporters, no extra collection layer and no data ingestion costs. Each plugin ships with pre-built dashboards and was built in partnership with Grafana Labs.

The new plugins cover cloud security, virtualization and data protection platforms. IT, platform and security teams can monitor these systems in Grafana alongside existing telemetry rather than switching between separate vendor consoles.

SALT LAKE CITY – October 21, 2026 -- Moises, the AI creative suite used by 80 million musicians, and SoundCloud, the music platform with 40+ million artists, have launched an integration that moves tracks from SoundCloud into Moises for production and back to SoundCloud for release and monetization.

Artists can import SoundCloud tracks into Moises on mobile or web

Artists connect their SoundCloud account and bring eligible tracks directly into Moises. There they can use stem separation, chord detection and lyric detection to practice and learn. Moises Studio, its web-based audio studio, supports mixing, mastering and track reimagining through contextual stem generation. Artists can also invite producers and other artists to collaborate in real time.

Hanover – October 21, 2026 -- HSG Laser has delivered more than 2,000 machines in Europe and is opening a showroom in Düsseldorf on November 10, as it presents five laser systems at EuroBLECH 2026 in Hanover.

The exhibition runs October 20–23 at the Hannover Exhibition Centre. HSG is at Booth 15-F42 under the theme "Powering Productivity with HSG." The line-up includes the European debut of the new flagship GV, the launch of GFA PRO and AI CutPilot, and the European debut of the high-speed G3015T and R2 PRO.

GFA PRO targets large-format thick-plate processing costs

The GFA PRO is built for large-format metal processing. HSG says it addresses large footprints, low speed, unstable thick-plate performance and high operating costs. The G3015T and R2 PRO extend HSG's high-speed range for sheet and tube processing, with the aim of improving throughput and flexibility.

BROOMFIELD – October 21, 2026 -- BAE Systems (LON: BA) has closed on the purchase of a 130,000-square-foot production facility in Weld County, Colorado, and expects to hire more than 200 people there over the next 12 to 24 months.

The building sits on about 13 acres. BAE Systems will use it to expand manufacturing capacity for space-based hardware and sensor systems, citing customer demand and business growth.

BAE Systems targets 600 jobs at full capacity

The company estimates the site could employ approximately 600 people at full capacity. The initial hiring wave of more than 200 positions will support production ramp-up.

Retrofit starts this year, production slated for early 2028

BAE Systems plans to begin retrofitting the facility and procuring equipment through the rest of this year. It anticipates opening the site for production in early 2028.

Oviedo, Fla. – October 21, 2026 -- The National Center for Integrated Emergency Response (NCIER), the services division of C3 Pathways, Inc., has updated its School Safety and Violent Event Incident Management (SSAVEIM) Train-the-Trainer course into a 16-hour, two-day program for up to 30 candidates drawn from schools, law enforcement, and fire and EMS.

Course seats roughly ten candidates from each of three disciplines

The target mix is approximately ten school personnel, ten law enforcement officers, and ten fire and EMS staff. Emergency management participants are encouraged to attend. Candidates first work through coached scenarios as students, then learn to facilitate the same scenarios in their home communities. The scenarios run from the first 911 call through reunification, the process of returning every student to the right parent.