Manufacturing & Industry

Garland, Texas – September 07, 2026 -- Massimo Group (NASDAQ: MAMO) will showcase its new Warrior 1500 UTV at Equip Exposition 2026 in Louisville, Kentucky, and the 2026 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, marking the Company's entry into the higher-displacement UTV category.

Massimo builds Warrior 1500 around new 1,499cc inline four-cylinder platform

The vehicle is engineered as a rugged, full-size UTV with an all-metal body targeting recreational, commercial and demanding off-road applications. Massimo is developing the 1,499cc engine as a scalable architecture intended to underpin multiple future vehicles across recreational, commercial, fleet and government markets.

Miami – September 07, 2026 -- Nucleus Research has named Blue Yonder, e2open, Elemica, FourKites, Infor, and o9 Solutions as Leaders in its 2026 Control Tower Technology Value Matrix, citing their combined strength in functionality and usability for large-scale enterprise adoption.

Decision velocity now drives control tower ROI, analyst says

Charles Brennan, Principal Analyst at Nucleus Research, said the value of control tower platforms depends on how quickly organizations can identify disruptions with material business impact, assess their operational and financial consequences, and act before the window to improve the outcome closes.

Tempe, Ariz. – – September 07, 2026 -- U.S. manufacturing activity expanded for an eighth straight month in August, but the pace cooled as the ISM Manufacturing PMI fell to 54.6%, down 1 percentage point from July's 55.6%, according to the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). The reading marks the sector's recovery from a 10-month contraction and corresponds to an estimated 2.4% annualized increase in real GDP, ISM said. The broader U.S. economy has now expanded for 22 consecutive months.

New orders and backlogs lose momentum as demand sentiment softens

The New Orders Index dropped 3 points to 53.7% from 56.7% in July, while the Backlog of Orders Index fell 3.2 points to 51.8%. The positive-to-negative comment ratio on demand narrowed to 2-to-1 in August from 3.5-to-1 the prior month. New Export Orders bucked the trend, edging up 0.2 point to 53.2%.

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SHERIDAN, WYOMING -- June 15, 2026 -- Mesago Messe Frankfurt GmbH has launched the Call for Workshops for the EMV 2027, the international trade fair and congress for electromagnetic compatibility scheduled for April 27–29, 2027 in Stuttgart. The submission process is now open, and this edition marks a deliberate broadening of the event's thematic scope to address fast-moving developments in areas including artificial intelligence, defense applications, and modern energy infrastructure. The move reflects the growing complexity of EMV-related challenges facing engineers and system designers across sectors.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING -- June 15, 2026 -- KHS Group has commissioned a 750.2 kWp photovoltaic system at its production site in Ahmedabad, India, generating 1,100 MWh of green electricity per year and covering approximately 80% of the facility's energy requirement. The plant went into operation in early March 2026 following a three-month installation phase and is projected to save up to 1,000 metric tons of indirect carbon emissions annually. The investment advances KHS's group-wide target of reducing scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 36% by 2028.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING -- June 15, 2026 -- Sidel will exhibit at Fispal Tecnologia 2026 in São Paulo from June 16 to 19, presenting packaging line innovations tailored to the Latin American food and beverage market. The company's stand K104 at São Paulo Expo will feature live demonstrations of palletising robotics, laser-blown PET bottle technology, and its cloud-based line performance suite. The exhibit reflects more than three decades of Sidel's operational presence in Brazil, where FMCG manufacturers face accelerating pressure to integrate recycled materials without sacrificing throughput.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - May 13, 2025 - Beverage and liquid food producers are entering one of the sector's most operationally demanding periods in years. Regulatory deadlines are tightening. Qualified line operators are harder to find. Raw material costs remain elevated. KHS, the Dortmund-based turnkey systems supplier, is responding with an expanded portfolio that links automated packaging machinery, resource-conserving secondary formats and advanced PET barrier technology into coordinated line solutions - designed for producers who can no longer afford to treat these challenges separately.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - March 31, 2026 - Grinding manufacturers face a more data-driven operating model in 2026 as cooling lubricant management moves from a maintenance task into a direct lever for energy use, surface quality, uptime and scrap reduction. VDW highlights this shift through research and industrial practice around requirement-based coolant supply, where sensor data, standardized machine connectivity and cloud-based service platforms are used to stabilize grinding conditions and support more autonomous production.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - March 31, 2026 - Manufacturing buyers and operations teams in northern Germany enter 2026 with a more concentrated venue for supplier discovery, cross-border networking and production planning as NORTEC runs in Hamburg from 3 to 5 February. The event is positioned as the first German trade fair of 2026 for manufacturers, and VDW frames it as an early indicator for the machine tool sector at a time when the manufacturing industry faces a challenging financial year.

NORTEC is marking its 20th year with a revised format for 2026. Messe Stuttgart says the show has been made more focused, with a compact three-day program and the full spectrum of production presented in Hall A4. The event brings together 175 national and international exhibitors and more than 40 program highlights, including panels and practical workshops, built with twelve network partners.