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Hong Kong – September 12, 2026 -- SANY Heavy Industry (600031.SH) posted first-half 2026 revenue of approximately $7.89 billion, up 19.49% year-on-year, with attributable net profit rising 9.13% to $838.887 million.

Second-quarter growth outpaces first-half average

Q2 revenue climbed 24.39% to $4.328 billion, exceeding the H1 growth rate, while attributable net profit for the quarter rose 16.93% to $473.108 million. Operating cash flow reached $1.440 billion. As of June 30, total assets stood at $26.708 billion and shareholders' equity at $13.576 billion.

Overseas sales account for 61.33% of core revenue

Foreign revenue totaled $4.724 billion, up 21.82% and representing 61.33% of core business revenue. Africa led regional growth with sales up 47.66% to $790.234 million, followed by the Americas at 24.70% growth to $930.294 million, Asia and Australia at 17.38% growth to $1.981 billion, and Europe at 12.68% growth to $1.022 billion.

Rockville, Md. – September 15, 2026 -- The Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) named Bandwidth, Google and ServiceNow as finalists for the AFP 2026 Pinnacle Awards, sponsored by Truist for a third consecutive year, with all three finalists having built AI-enabled treasury systems.

Voting closes September 18 ahead of Las Vegas announcement

Community voting to select the Grand Prize winner runs until Sept. 18, 2026. The winner will be revealed during AFP 2026, held November 8-11 in Las Vegas, and Truist will donate $10,000 to The Just One Project on the winner's behalf.

Livonia, Mich. – September 15, 2026 -- Yorktowne Cabinetry, a Cabinetworks Group brand, has launched its fall 2026 product introduction, adding three new door styles, a new wood species and expanded finish options for the kitchen and bath design trade.

Three new door styles debut alongside expanded finish collection

The release introduces three all-new door styles and expands two existing profiles. The finish lineup gains a Ceruse technique in four expressions, a Paint on Oak collection in six shades, three new paint colors and one new stain option.

Walnut joins Yorktowne's wood species portfolio by customer request

Yorktowne added Walnut to its wood species offerings following demand from designers and dealers. New range hoods and storage solutions were also added to expand functional options for kitchen layouts.

Chicago – September 15, 2026 -- ABOC, also known as Amalgamated Bank of Chicago, has relocated its corporate headquarters and opened a new full-service branch at 101 N. Wacker Drive in the city's Loop neighborhood, occupying roughly 40,000 square feet of office and retail space.

Bank consolidates operations into two executive floors plus ground-floor branch

The new footprint includes two floors dedicated to executive offices and operational teams, alongside a full-service branch on the ground floor at the corner of Wacker Drive and Washington Street. Founded in 1922, ABOC serves unions, public entities, businesses and individuals nationwide, and describes the move as a milestone in its relationship-driven banking model.

New York – September 15, 2026 -- The Partnership for Quality Measurement (PQM) has endorsed a National Kidney Foundation (NKF) quality measure that tracks annual kidney testing for adults with diabetes and/or high blood pressure, a move aimed at closing a diagnostic gap affecting an estimated 37 million U.S. adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Measure tracks two annual tests for at-risk adults aged 18 to 85

The endorsed measure, Rate of Annual Kidney Health Evaluation Among Adults with Diabetes and/or Hypertension, monitors whether patients receive both an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) blood test and a urine albumin-creatinine ratio (uACR) test within a measurement year. The combination helps clinicians identify CKD and assess risk of disease progression and cardiovascular complications.

Norwalk, Connecticut – September 15, 2026 -- GameChange Energy's subsidiary, GameChange Solar Corp., has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nextpower in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, alleging unauthorized use of its high-tilt stow tracker technology.

Lawsuit targets Nextpower's tracker systems over U.S. Patent 12,449,161

The complaint states that GameChange Solar Corp. holds U.S. Patent 12,449,161, which covers the disputed high-tilt stow technology used in its single-axis solar tracker systems. GameChange contends that Nextpower's products infringe on one or more claims of this patent.

GameChange seeks injunction and monetary damages

GameChange Solar Corp. is seeking injunctive relief to halt further alleged infringement by Nextpower, along with monetary damages tied to the claim. No financial figures for damages sought were disclosed in the filing.

Amsterdam – September 15, 2026 -- NetActuate has launched a curated marketplace of more than 110 media, streaming, transcode, and delivery appliances for one-click deployment across its global edge anycast network, spanning over 45 locations worldwide.

NetActuate charges zero listing fees or revenue share on marketplace appliances

Customers pay only for the compute an appliance runs on. Commercial software follows a bring-your-own-license model, with vendor keys applied at first boot and never stored, while open source appliances require no license at all.

Kathmandu – September 15, 2026 -- Two weeks after a devastating flash flood in Nepal, an estimated 540 children remain separated from their parents or unaccompanied, while roughly 630 children in the Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts are still missing, according to a joint assessment by Nepal's National Child Rights Council and child protection experts including Save the Children.

Assessment finds 1,233 children currently living in emergency shelters

Of those, 102 are unaccompanied and 439 have been separated from their parents but are being cared for by relatives, the assessment shows. The figures underscore the scale of family tracing and reunification work now required in the flood-hit region.

Washington – September 15, 2026 -- An estimated 18,460 people died in U.S. motor vehicle crashes during the first half of 2026, a 2% decline from the revised first-half 2025 count, according to preliminary National Safety Council (NSC) data released Sept. 9, 2026. The drop occurred even as total miles driven rose 0.8% between January and June, pushing the estimated fatality rate to 1.12 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled -- down 3.4% year-over-year and 10.4% from 2024.

State-level fatality trends diverge sharply across the country

Thirteen states recorded double-digit decreases in traffic deaths, led by Hawaii (-30%), Illinois (-24%) and West Virginia (-24%), followed by Kansas (-21%), Oklahoma (-20%), Idaho (-18%), New Hampshire (-16%), Nevada (-14%), Maryland (-13%), Wisconsin (-13%), Tennessee (-12%), Utah (-11%) and Massachusetts (-10%).

Miami – September 15, 2026 -- Qtonic Quantum has appointed Gina Fratarcangeli, a former Google Managing Director who oversaw an $8 billion Global Strategic Integrator ecosystem, as Senior Advisor for AI Transformation and Global Alliances. The move brings three decades of enterprise leadership from Google, Accenture, IBM and Genpact to a quantum cyber risk company scaling its post-quantum readiness business.

Fratarcangeli drove 89% year-over-year growth leading Google's North America systems integrator business

At Google, Fratarcangeli managed profit-and-loss portfolios of up to $5 billion and guided enterprise modernization programs for Fortune 1000 companies. Her joint AI go-to-market strategies with global systems integrators delivered 89% year-over-year growth, according to the company.

North Andover, Mass. – September 15, 2026 -- Tecnau and Sitma will present new print finishing and packaging automation technology at PRINTING United Expo 2026, running September 23-25 in Las Vegas, under the banner "From Print to Profit."

Revolution 50 AutoSetup eliminates manual changeover delays

Tecnau's Revolution 50 AutoSetup will demonstrate automatic format changes between applications without operator intervention, a capability designed to remove traditional finishing setup bottlenecks and increase throughput for print providers running diverse job mixes.

Palo Alto, Calif. – September 15, 2026 -- SandboxAQ has completed what it calls the world's first reported test of a magnetic navigation (MagNav) system on an attritable drone platform, integrating its AQNav software into Northrop Grumman's Lumberjack Group 3 unmanned aircraft system.

Test marks first pairing of MagNav with visual navigation on a one-way attack platform

The flight demonstration also represents the first reported instance of a MagNav system operating alongside a visual navigation system on an attritable, one-way attack drone, according to SandboxAQ. Lumberjack, developed by Northrop Grumman in under 14 months from concept to first flight, is designed as a multi-use loitering munition.

Dallas – September 15, 2026 -- Provident Industrial has sold A20 Logistics Center, a 161,408-square-foot industrial building in Arlington, Texas, to an institutional buyer, closing out a project that leased half its space within one month of delivery.

Provident completed construction in January 2026, twelve months after breaking ground

The developer broke ground on the project in January 2025 in partnership with Humphreys Fund IV, managed by Humphreys Capital. Located at 4601 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, just south of I-20 next to Arlington Municipal Airport, the site sits roughly 30 minutes from downtown Dallas, downtown Fort Worth, and DFW International Airport.

Fort Worth, Texas – September 15, 2026 -- Elbit Systems Ltd.'s U.S. operating segment will now operate as Twenty-Six Defense, a rebranding that reinforces the Israeli defense contractor's long-term commitment to domestic manufacturing amid U.S. government pressure to expand industrial capacity.

New entity employs 3,300 workers with three decades of military support

Twenty-Six Defense, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, employs 3,300 Americans who have supported the U.S. military for more than 30 years. The company remains a reportable operating segment of Elbit Systems Ltd. and continues to operate under a Special Security Agreement, a structure required for foreign-owned defense contractors handling classified U.S. government work.

Dallas – September 15, 2026 -- Integrity, LLC has partnered with Brave Insurance Group, a Dallas-based independent marketing organization founded by Blake Naylor specializing in final expense insurance. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Integrity adds a final expense specialist to its distribution network

Brave Insurance Group serves clients nationwide with final expense insurance solutions and will now gain access to Integrity's technology platform, including IntegrityCONNECT, a business growth engine offering demographic-segmented leads, instant health and life quoting, and application processing. The agency will also integrate Ask Integrity, Integrity's AI-powered and voice-activated digital assistant that delivers coverage recommendations and lifecycle reminders through its CRM.

Valencia, Calif. – September 15, 2026 -- Bioness Medical, Inc. and OneStep have struck a partnership that lets clinicians measure patient gait and mobility using only a smartphone, both in clinic and in daily life, the companies announced.

Data from 300 patients shows measurable gains in walking speed and stride length

More than 300 patients were evaluated on OneStep's gait analysis platform to gauge the immediate impact of functional electrical stimulation from Bioness' L300 Go and L300 Go Plus systems. Among adults using the L300 Go Plus, stride length increased by 5.9 cm and walking velocity rose from 0.68 to 0.74 m/s, with parallel gains in overall and symmetry-based gait scores.

Austin, Texas – September 15, 2026 -- Milagro has extended its autonomous surgical coding platform to three additional ambulatory surgery centers operated by Constitution Surgery Alliance (CSA), bringing total deployment to 12 CSA facilities across New England and the Northeast.

CSA scales automated coding while keeping certified coders in the review loop

The expansion supports increasingly complex surgical coding workflows at CSA, one of the largest independent operators of outpatient surgery centers in the U.S. Sayword Hill, SVP of Revenue Cycle for CSA, said Milagro's automation is layered with the organization's existing coding review, quality assurance and auditing processes, allowing certified coding professionals to maintain oversight as automation scope grows.

Boston – September 15, 2026 -- EMD Serono, Inc., the U.S. and Canada healthcare business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, has acquired two preclinical fertility drug programs from PostEra, a biotechnology company that uses artificial intelligence for small-molecule drug discovery.

EMD Serono takes over two AI-derived fertility programs from PostEra

The deal covers a class of follicle-stimulating hormone receptor (FSHR) agonists for ovarian stimulation in IVF and a separate class of luteinizing hormone/chorionic gonadotropin receptor (LHCGR) agonists targeting male infertility and ovulation triggering in IVF. Both programs were developed over the past two years using PostEra's Proton AI platform and remain in preclinical development, with safety and efficacy in humans not yet established.

Delray Beach, Fla. – – September 15, 2026 -- The global High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC) market is projected to grow from USD 0.94 billion in 2026 to USD 1.44 billion by 2031, a compound annual growth rate of 8.9%, according to MarketsandMarkets.

North America leads a market shifting toward recurring consumables revenue

North America held the largest regional share of the HFNC market in 2025, supported by advanced critical-care infrastructure and established manufacturers. By product, consumables and accessories outpaced systems in market share, while adults represented the largest patient-type segment. Acute respiratory failure treatment led application demand, and hospitals remained the dominant end-user category due to intensive care unit and emergency department volumes.

Boulder, Colo. – September 15, 2026 -- State sales tax audits drag on for an average of 223 days and can stretch as long as 682 days, according to internal data released by tax compliance firm TaxValet, which has guided 38 clients through such audits.

TaxValet has managed $458,492 in historical tax exposure accumulated by clients before they joined the firm

Defending a single audit consumes more than 20 hours of expert support, TaxValet reported. The firm noted that 45 current clients switched directly from popular sales tax software providers after those tools failed to close compliance gaps.