Manufacturing & Industrial Technology

Toronto – November 04, 2026 -- Russel Metals Inc. (TSX: RUS) posted record quarterly revenue of $1.8 billion for the three months ended September 30, 2026, up 56% from the third quarter of 2025 and 10% from the second quarter. Adjusted EBITDA reached a record $230 million and adjusted earnings per share a record $2.67.

Gross margin widens 330 basis points to 25.9% in one quarter

Average gross margin rose to 25.9% from 22.6% in the second quarter. Russel attributed the gain to favourable market conditions, an improving margin profile at the branches acquired from Kloeckner Metals Corporation, and better margins at its Canadian service center operations.

Fremont – November 04, 2026 -- Socket Mobile (NASDAQ: SCKT) cut its third-quarter operating loss to $643,000 from $1,058,000 a year earlier, as revenue rose 9% to $3.4 million and operating expenses fell to $2.3 million.

Revenue climbs 12% sequentially to $3.4 million

Quarterly revenue compared with $3.1 million in the prior-year quarter and $3.0 million in the second quarter of 2026. Gross margin reached 48.6%, up from 47.7% a year earlier and 46.4% in the preceding quarter.

Operating expenses fall to $2.3 million from $2.6 million in Q2

Spending was $2.5 million in the prior-year period. CEO Dave Holmes put the reductions at 12% quarter on quarter and 10% year over year. The operating loss was $1,195,000 in the second quarter, so the Q3 figure is roughly 46% lower sequentially.

SHANGHAI – November 04, 2026 -- Algorized is demonstrating its Algorized Foundation Model (AFM), a single model for human-aware perception, live at the 9th China International Import Expo (CIIE 2026) in Shanghai from 5 to 10 November, running on data from one standard wireless sensor.

BMW Technology Office China invites Algorized to its start-up exhibition area

BMW Technology Office China identified Algorized through outside-in scouting for its human-aware perception offering in Physical AI. Algorized is an invited guest at the BMW start-up area. Participation does not mean any collaboration with BMW exists or that BMW endorses or validates the technology. All capability claims about AFM are Algorized's own.

Berlin – November 05, 2026 -- About 40,000 tonnes of PFAS "forever chemicals" are used as refrigerants in Europe every year despite the existing F-gas regulation, according to a study by Öko-Recherche for Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH). The study undercuts the chemical industry's main argument for exempting fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases) from the planned EU PFAS restriction.

Study rejects the chemical industry's "double regulation" claim

Industry groups argue that F-gases are already adequately regulated and should be excluded from the PFAS restriction. DUH says the F-gas regulation phases out the most climate-damaging F-gases but still permits chemicals that harm health and pollute the environment. The study concludes that the 40,000-tonne volume remains unregulated from a PFAS perspective, and that this will continue without intervention.

TAIPEI – November 05, 2026 -- SINBON Electronics (TWSE:3023) has linked senior management pay to sustainability results for the first time, giving ESG metrics a 20% weighting in annual performance assessments, according to its 2025 Sustainability Report.

SINBON applies ESG pay policy to CEO, President, Vice Presidents and first-tier managers

The Policy on Linking Executive Compensation to ESG-Related Performance Evaluation was formally established in 2025. It covers the CEO, President, Vice Presidents, and first-tier managers of business units and support functions. The 20% weighting covers seven areas: talent sustainability, occupational safety, integrity and legal compliance, sustainable procurement, sustainability awareness, climate change, and sustainable products and services.

DALLAS – November 05, 2026 -- Texas Instruments (Nasdaq: TXN) has introduced a system-on-module that lets engineers switch between EtherCAT, EtherNet/IP and Profinet through a firmware update, alongside a dual-channel IO-Link master aimed at sensor-to-network integration in factory automation, robotics and Industrial IoT systems.

TICS100MOD runs three Industrial Ethernet protocols on one board

The TICS100MOD is built on TI's AM2612 microcontroller and DP83826AI Ethernet physical layer. TI describes it as the industry's smallest fully featured, certified communications SoM. Engineers select the protocol at boot time via firmware, so a single hardware design can serve different customer or regional requirements without a redesign.

The module integrates two Arm Cortex-R5F cores and external memory. TI says this is enough compute for fully featured protocol stacks and advanced factory automation applications.

Amsterdam – November 05, 2026 -- Pudu Robotics' European revenue has grown by an average of more than 60% annually over the past two years, the company said at its first European Partner Summit, where it presented a six-line product portfolio for the first time.

Pudu bets on one shared AI architecture across six robot lines

Under its "One Brain, Multiple Embodiments" strategy, Pudu is building a common technology base for service, cleaning, industrial, embodied AI, commercial mowing and home lawn care robots. The architecture rests on PuduFM, an embodied foundation model, and PuduAgent OS, an embodied AI agent platform. Both let AI capabilities, software modules and skills be reused across robot types, while hardware and motion control stay tuned to specific tasks.

Wiesbaden – November 05, 2026 -- Real new orders in German manufacturing rose 4.4% in September 2026 from the prior month (seasonally and calendar adjusted), according to preliminary data from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). Excluding large-scale orders, orders climbed 5.1%. Compared with September 2025, orders were up 3.3% on a calendar-adjusted basis.

Automotive orders jump 10.5% after a weak summer

The automotive industry drove much of the gain, with orders up 10.5% month on month. Orders and production in the sector had been low in the two preceding months, partly because of production changeovers and plant holidays.

Mechanical engineering adds 8.3%, helped by one large order

Mechanical engineering orders increased 8.3%. A large order in the manufacture of internal combustion engines and turbines contributed to the rise.

SHANGHAI – November 05, 2026 -- NSING Technologies has shipped more than 250 million Bluetooth chips incorporating Ceva-Waves Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) IP, licensor Ceva, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA) announced.

NSING builds its Bluetooth portfolio on Ceva's licensed connectivity IP

The Chinese semiconductor company combines Ceva's Bluetooth LE technology with its own low-power RF designs and MCU architectures. According to Ceva, this approach shortened product development and kept performance and standards compliance consistent across successive product generations.

KYOTO – November 05, 2026 -- Nuvoton Technology Corporation Japan (NTCJ) and Qt Group (Nasdaq Helsinki: QTCOM) have added Nuvoton's Gerda HMI controller platform as target hardware for Qt for MCUs, enabling premium graphical interfaces without external memory.

Built-in RAM removes external memory from the bill of materials

Gerda's large built-in RAM and its display, connectivity and control interfaces allow standalone HMI systems with no external memory. Qt for MCUs' graphics optimization and Gerda's texture compression shrink the GUI memory footprint. The companies say the result is a lower component count and lower total system cost, which matters most in high-volume products.

Target applications range from automotive and motorcycle instrument clusters and head-up displays to home appliance display panels. The companies demonstrated a motorcycle instrument cluster and a washing machine interface.