Manufacturing & Industrial Technology

Boston – October 13, 2026 -- Flexcompute has secured strategic investment from Samsung Ventures and Applied Ventures, the venture arm of Applied Materials, to scale its Physics World Model, an AI system that predicts design behavior by learning the laws of physics. The company did not disclose the investment amount, and other investors also participated.

Flexcompute solves a 5-billion-DOF chip package warpage model in minutes

Flexcompute reports that it solved a 5-billion degree-of-freedom warpage model for a full advanced semiconductor package within 2% of commercial finite-element results, in minutes. The package contained more than 800,000 solder joints, an ASIC and 32 optical engines. The company says this is the kind of problem traditional simulation cannot reach.

Olathe, Kan. – October 13, 2026 -- Garmin (NYSE: GRMN) won three awards and placed No. 4 on the Soundings Trade Only Top 10 Most EPIC Companies list at the 2026 International BoatBuilders' Exhibition and Conference (IBEX), citing 15 product launches in the eligibility period.

Garmin Signal VHF 400 wins IBEX Innovation Award in OEM Electronics

The radio prevailed among 100 product entries. It combines VHF, DSC and a Class B SOTDMA AIS transponder on a color touchscreen in a compact unit designed to fit nearly any helm.

Judges also highlighted NMEA 2000 integration, support for 12V and 24V systems, and a separately powered fist mic with magnetic mounting, which eases installation across a wide range of boats. The National Marine Manufacturers Association manages the IBEX Innovation Awards, and Boating Writers International (BWI) judges them.

Delray Beach – October 13, 2026 -- The global oxygen scavenger market will grow from USD 3.49 billion in 2026 to USD 4.99 billion by 2031, a compound annual growth rate of 7.4%, according to a MarketsandMarkets forecast.

Asia Pacific holds 36.5% of 2026 revenue and is forecast to grow fastest

Asia Pacific is the largest regional market, with a 36.5% revenue share in 2026. MarketsandMarkets also expects it to be the fastest-growing region through 2031. It cites industrialization, urbanization and expanding food processing and pharmaceutical manufacturing in China, India, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia. China, India and Japan are investing heavily in pharmaceutical production, food processing, industrial infrastructure and advanced packaging systems.

Delray Beach – October 13, 2026 -- The global low-power brushless DC (BLDC) motor market will grow from USD 6.59 billion in 2026 to USD 9.69 billion by 2031, a compound annual growth rate of 8.0%, according to MarketsandMarkets. The 2025 market size stood at USD 6.11 billion.

Asia Pacific is forecast to grow fastest at 8.8% CAGR through 2031

Asia Pacific is expected to post the highest regional CAGR of 8.8%. MarketsandMarkets attributes the growth to industrial development, expanding manufacturing, rising automation and demand for energy savings. China, Japan, South Korea, India and ASEAN countries have invested heavily in robotics, industrial automation, electric transportation, smart appliances and battery devices.

Houston – October 13, 2026 -- Frost & Sullivan has named Tatsoft a Visionary Leader in the Frost RadarTM: SCADA for Industrial Control Environments, 2026, and Tatsoft is pairing the ranking with a fixed-price migration service for legacy SCADA and HMI applications. The Frost RadarTM benchmarks SCADA platforms on two indices, innovation and growth. Visionary Leaders are the vendors with a strong balance of both.

Frost & Sullivan ties the ranking to FrameworX 10.1 architecture, released in May 2026

The analyst firm's profile centers on FrameworX 10.1 and the stack beneath it. That stack includes a current .NET runtime (.NET 10) and WebAssembly, so one build runs on desktop, web and mobile. It deploys on Windows, Linux and Docker, with a Unified Namespace (UNS) and knowledge graph built into the platform. Engineers extend applications in C#, VB.NET and Python 3.

Dubai – October 12, 2026 -- Robo.ai Inc. (Nasdaq: AIIO) plans to set up ALIF Composites in the UAE with a targeted annual capacity of 10 million square meters of composite raw materials in 2027, with production due to start in Q4 2026.

ALIF Holding, Robo.ai's majority-owned subsidiary, will establish ALIF Composites as a majority-owned subsidiary. The unit is meant to expand the Group's advanced manufacturing business.

ALIF Composites targets the Umm Al Quwain industrial park, where Phase I broke ground on September 25, 2026

ALIF Composites plans to operate at the ALIF Holding Group Industrial Park in Umm Al Quwain. Its planned portfolio covers carbon fiber composites, prepregs, custom components and engineering services. Target customers are in the marine, mobility, energy and industrial sectors.

Materials supply and custom manufacturing are intended to support regional business development.

Stockholm -- Sandvik AB will publish its third-quarter 2026 results on Thursday, October 12, 2026, at approximately 08:00 AM CEST, according to an investor invitation dated October 12, 2026.

CEO Stefan Widing and CFO Cecilia Felton present the report at 10:00 AM CEST

Two hours after the release, Sandvik will hold a combined webcast and conference call for investors, analysts and financial media at 10:00 AM CEST. President and CEO Stefan Widing and CFO Cecilia Felton will present the quarterly report.

Sandvik opens dial-in lines in Sweden, the UK and the US

Participants can join the call through three national numbers: Sweden +46 (0) 8 505 100 31, the UK +44 (0) 203 059 58 63, and the US +1 (1) 631 570 56 13. The presentation will also be broadcast live on the company's website.

Presentation slides will be posted on the same site on the day of the report.

Shenzhen – October 12, 2026 -- The 5th Global Memory Innovation Forum (GMIF2026) has named 18 companies across memory, compute, packaging and testing equipment, test systems and end applications in its first GMIF2026 Annual Awards, led by Samsung Semiconductor, Sandisk, CXMT and Lenovo.

The summit was held at the Renaissance Shenzhen Bay Hotel and co-hosted by the Shenzhen Memory Industry Association and the School of Integrated Circuits at Peking University. Its theme was "The Future Built on AI Memory and Storage," with the token economy as a key lens. Winners were judged on technology innovation, industry contribution, market service and application results.

Stuttgart – October 12, 2026 -- Raytron OEM used VISION 2026 at Messe Stuttgart (October 6-8) to show a short-wave infrared (SWIR) camera that runs full-frame at up to 825 fps, alongside thermal imaging modules aimed at European machine vision integrators and OEM developers.

NS-615AS-10GE pairs 640 × 512 resolution with a 10GigE interface

The camera targets high-speed acquisition tasks such as semiconductor inspection and material sorting. Raytron showed it next to the NS-615A-GE area-scan SWIR camera and the NS-101L2 line-scan SWIR camera, which offer other acquisition formats and interface options.

Live SWIR demonstrations told sugar from salt and compared dry and wet biscuit samples. The demos covered material differentiation, food sorting and moisture detection.

Espoo – October 12, 2026 -- Valmet will supply a complete high-speed board making line, PM 9, to Anhui Linping Circular Development's mill in China, with start-up scheduled for 2028. The order is booked in Valmet's third-quarter 2026 orders received, and its value will not be disclosed.

Valmet extends Xiao County partnership after PM 8 delivery

PM 9 follows the complete board making line PM 8, which Valmet previously delivered to the same customer site in Xiao County. The new line is designed for lightweight fluting and liner grades. Anhui Linping aims to broaden its product portfolio while improving resource efficiency and lowering environmental impact.

Anhui Linping Chairman Li Jianshe said the investment will "strengthen our position in the market" and cited the earlier project with Valmet as the basis for confidence in the full-scope delivery.