Manufacturing & Industrial Technology

Malmö – November 09, 2026 -- Rosti Group has acquired Alvi Group, lifting its combined revenue to EUR 450 million and its workforce to about 3,000 employees. The Swedish plastic injection moulding and contract manufacturer closed the deal on November 2, 2026. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Alvi adds EUR 50 million to Rosti's EUR 400 million base

Alvi's five sites in Leksvik (Norway), Tyresö (Sweden), Wrocław (Poland) and Suzhou (China), along with about 400 employees, now belong to Rosti. The deal adds Norway to Rosti's footprint and expands its capabilities in Sweden, Poland and China. Rosti already operates across the USA, Europe and Asia.

In Leksvik, toolmaker Industriverktøy continues as Rosti Industriverktøy.

Espoo – November 09, 2026 -- Valmet will supply a complete board making line with automation and lifecycle services to one of its major customers in Asia, with start-up scheduled for 2029. The order was booked in Valmet's third-quarter 2026 orders received. The company did not disclose its value.

New line mirrors the board line announced earlier this year

The new line will be similar in concept to the board line announced earlier this year. Valmet has also delivered board and paper making lines to the same customer in the past. This lets both sides apply operational experience and best practices from existing installations.

The customer plans to expand premium-quality coated board production while improving production efficiency and operational performance.

LOS ANGELES – November 08, 2026 -- FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem Inc. (NASDAQ: FFR) said its OmniMind embodied AI model ranked No. 1 overall on RoboColiseum's global leaderboard as of November 6, scoring 0.8698 out of 1 in simulation-based testing.

According to FFR, the score is ahead of NVIDIA GR00T N1.7, GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5, among other models. The disclosure came in the 80th weekly business update from YT Jia, Founder and Global CEO of FFR and Faraday Future.

OmniMind posts 0.99 in instruction following on a layered architecture

FFR reported sub-scores of about 0.99 for instruction following, 0.92 for spatial reasoning and 0.96 for robustness to disturbances. The company attributes the result to a layered architecture with programmatic execution rather than a typical vision-language-action (VLA) approach, in which one model generates actions directly.

Mannheim – November 08, 2026 -- The VAA Stiftung awarded three early-career researchers its Excellence Prize, worth EUR 5,000 each, at the VAA annual conference in Mannheim on 6 November 2026.

The foundation is run by the VAA, the association representing specialists and executives in chemicals and pharma. It presents the prize once a year for innovative research in chemistry, pharmacy and process engineering.

Three dissertations target CO2 conversion and carbon materials

Dr. Arne Nisters of Technische Universität Darmstadt won for his dissertation on nanoporous phosphine macroligands as solid catalysts for the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide.

Dr. Niklas Ortlieb of the University of Freiburg was honored for a toolbox for tailored, porous, nitrogen-doped 3D carbon nanospheres that enables rational bottom-up electrode design.

WUHAN – November 08, 2026 -- TCL CSOT will present its inkjet printing OLED (IJP OLED) technology as it moves from technical validation toward large-scale production at the Global Display Tech-Ecosystem Conference 2026 (DTC 2026) in Wuhan, China, on November 13.

IJP OLED shifts from validation to production after a decade of R&D

TCL CSOT says more than a decade of research and development has brought IJP OLED to a critical commercialization stage. The company reports expanding applications, from medical displays into IT and consumer products, including monitors and future intelligent devices. It says the technology is drawing growing attention across the display value chain. The company will share further development updates at the conference and describes them as a major highlight.

Downers Grove, Ill. – November 07, 2026 -- Dover Corporation (NYSE: DOV) declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.525 per share, payable on December 15, 2026.

Shareholders of record on November 30, 2026 qualify for the payout

The Board of Directors set November 30, 2026 as the record date. Only holders on the company's books as of that date receive the $0.525 per-share payment.

Dover reports annual revenue above $8 billion across five segments

The diversified manufacturer and solutions provider operates through Engineered Products, Clean Energy & Fueling, Imaging & Identification, Pumps & Process Solutions, and Climate & Sustainability Technologies. It employs approximately 24,000 people.

The payment date of December 15, 2026 falls 15 days after the record date.

FORT WORTH, Texas – November 07, 2026 -- AZZ Inc. (NYSE: AZZ), a provider of hot-dip galvanizing and coil coating solutions, has released its 2026 Sustainability Report, its sixth consecutive annual edition.

Newsweek named the company one of America's Most Responsible Companies for the fourth consecutive year in 2026. USA Today also listed AZZ among America's 2026 Climate Leaders.

AZZ ties ESG principles to daily operations and long-term strategy

President and CEO Tom Ferguson said the report reflects the company's effort to integrate environmental, social and governance principles into daily operations, corporate culture and long-term strategy. He said it documents progress and ongoing efforts to create value for shareholders, customers, employees and communities.

MILWAUKEE – November 07, 2026 -- Regal Rexnord Corporation (NYSE: RRX) will send management to two investor conferences, with fireside chats and investor meetings set for November 11 in Chicago and December 2 in New York.

Baird conference in Chicago opens the two-stop schedule on November 11

Management will take part in the Baird 2026 Global Industrial Conference in Chicago on November 11. The company will hold a fireside chat and host investor meetings at the event.

Goldman Sachs industrials event in New York follows on December 2

The second appearance is the Goldman Sachs Industrials and Materials Conference in New York on December 2. It follows the same format of a fireside chat plus investor meetings.

Oslo – November 06, 2026 -- Hexagon Composites reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of NOK 929 million, up from NOK 538 million a year earlier, and swung to an EBITDA of NOK 108 million from a loss of NOK 54 million.

The EBITDA margin reached 12%, against -10% in Q3 2025. Revenue grew about 73% year-over-year, and EBITDA improved by NOK 162 million.

Hexagon Composites posts its strongest quarter since the record Q4 2024

CEO Philipp Schramm described the result as the company's "strongest quarterly performance since the record fourth quarter of 2024." He said the company has entered new regions and consolidated markets over the past year. It has also delivered into new verticals, including aerospace and data centers.

Schramm also cited strong free cash flow conversion as evidence of an improved financial position.

Munich – November 06, 2026 -- Cavli Wireless will unveil its P16QS LTE Cat 1bis system-on-module and the Cortex AI firmware assistant at electronica 2026, running November 10-13 in Munich. The company says Cortex AI aims to cut IoT development cycles from months to weeks, depending on project complexity and deployment requirements.

P16QS packs payment-grade security into a 40 x 30 mm module

The P16QS targets payment terminals, connected soundboxes, low-cost instrument clusters, vehicle telematics and asset tracking. It runs a 32-bit RISC-V processor at 325 MHz with RTOS support. LTE Cat 1bis delivers peak speeds of 10 Mbps down and 5 Mbps up.

The module adds Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth Low Energy 5.4, an integrated secure element, and interfaces for NFC, smart cards and magnetic-stripe readers. Multi-constellation GNSS and an integrated eSIM are optional. The LGA package measures 40.0 x 30.0 x 2.7 mm.