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Lisle, Ill. – – September 30, 2026 -- Forum Health, LLC has appointed Elizabeth Campbell as Chief Financial and Development Officer, a newly created role tasked with leading fundraising and acquisitions as the functional medicine network pursues rapid expansion.

Campbell joins after building and selling a 88-clinic orthodontic platform

Campbell co-founded myOrthos, LLC in 2019 and served as CEO, completing 37 acquisitions to build a platform of 88 clinics across 14 states before its 2025 sale to Smile Doctors, a portfolio company of TH Lee. She brings more than 20 years of experience spanning The Boston Consulting Group, private equity roles at SV Life Sciences Advisors and LLR Partners, and healthcare operating leadership.

Santa Clara, Calif. – September 30, 2026 -- The producer price index for new nonresidential construction inputs climbed 8.4% year over year through May 2026, the steepest annual increase since the pandemic period, according to DPR Construction's latest Market Conditions Report.

Cross-sector demand strains shared labor and supply pools

DPR Construction, a self-performing contractor, finds that investment across digital infrastructure, healthcare, advanced manufacturing, transportation and energy is pulling from the same pools of electricians, mechanical trades, commissioning specialists and field leaders. Projects that appear unrelated on paper are increasingly tied together through overlapping resource demands, the report states.

Foshan – September 30, 2026 -- Transmart Industrial Limited is expanding its push into North America, betting that ultra-thin nanocrystalline ribbon technology will capture demand from AI data centers and power grid upgrades as U.S. electricity consumption enters its strongest four-year growth streak since 2000.

Transmart manufactures nanocrystalline ribbon at 12 to 14 micrometers, a thickness achieved by only a small number of manufacturers worldwide

The thinner ribbon reduces eddy-current losses at high switching frequencies, letting engineers design transformers, inductors and filters that run cooler while shrinking in size and weight for a given power rating. Transmart's self-developed, patented production lines cover precision slitting, automatic winding, vacuum annealing and multi-wire cutting, giving the company direct control over ribbon dimensions, magnetic properties and core geometry.

Shenzhen, China – September 30, 2026 -- MemoMind, the AI hardware brand incubated by projector maker XGIMI, has rolled out a software update for its MemoMind One smart glasses that expands live two-way translation to 53 languages and opens the second phase of developer access.

Translation Coverage Expands to 53 Languages Including Urdu, Tamil and Arabic

MemoMind One now supports live, two-way translation across 53 languages, adding Urdu, Tamil, Gujarati, Nepali and Arabic through firmware-side support, extending real-time communication to hundreds of millions of additional speakers.

Los Angeles – September 30, 2026 -- Britive has launched the Frictionless PAM Transformation Program, a new initiative aimed at helping enterprises replace fragmented, credential-centric privileged access management (PAM) systems with a unified, runtime authorization model built for AI agents and non-human identities.

Program targets fragmented PAM architectures across cloud and legacy systems

Britive says enterprise privileged access environments have become siloed, with traditional infrastructure, cloud systems, and non-human identities each governed by separate controls. Mohit Vaish, CEO of CyberSolve, said organizations have historically responded by "bolting another module onto the same architecture," which adds tools without resolving the underlying fragmentation.

Silicon Valley – – September 30, 2026 -- Meshy has surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue, a 100x increase from $1 million in under two years, making it the first AI 3D company to reach the milestone. The platform now counts more than 15 million registered users and over 3,000 companies and educational institutions, who have collectively generated more than 100 million 3D models. Half of the world's ten most valuable companies by market capitalization or private valuation are Meshy customers, and teams at 200 Fortune Global 500 firms build with the platform.

Burbank, Calif. – September 30, 2026 -- CJ 4DPLEX and Cinemark Holdings will add 20 new SCREENX auditoriums across the Americas, with 17 installations in the U.S. and three in South and Central America, the companies announced.

Six U.S. sites open in 2026, lifting Cinemark's domestic SCREENX count to 30

The rollout expands a partnership that began in 2022, with six of the new U.S. auditoriums scheduled to open in 2026. That timing brings Cinemark's total domestic SCREENX footprint to 30 locations ahead of the release of Avengers: Doomsday, and introduces the panoramic format to new U.S. states for the first time.

Miami – September 30, 2026 -- Analysis of more than 2.5 million boats across Florida, Ohio, Texas, and Virginia found that just 6% to 13% of repeat buyers stay with the same manufacturer on their next purchase, according to new data from Boats Group.

Repeat owners make up a quarter of the market but rarely return to the same brand

Boats Group identified approximately 637,000 repeat owners—those associated with two or more boats—among the records studied. Repeat owners represented 25.6% of owners in Florida, 31.3% in Ohio, 20.6% in Virginia, and 18.0% in Texas. Despite this scale, brand loyalty on the next purchase ranged from just 6% to 13% across all four states.

Atlanta – September 30, 2026 -- Firestone Partners and Matterhorn Venture Partners ('MVP') have acquired a 14,400-square-foot, six-suite small-bay industrial building at 4710 Ecton Drive in Marietta, GA, delivering 100% occupancy at closing after executing a new lease for the property's two vacant suites.

Partnership expands Atlanta footprint with second joint acquisition

The deal marks the partnership's second Atlanta-area purchase, following 1717 Koppers Road in Conley, GA. The Marietta property sits in the Woodstock/Canton submarket of North Atlanta, an infill industrial corridor the firms describe as supply-constrained, with direct access to the I-75/I-575 corridor.

Washington, D.C. – September 30, 2026 -- GE Aerospace has donated $1 million to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum to reopen two dedicated classrooms for aerospace education, timed to coincide with the museum's 50th anniversary.

New classrooms expect to serve hundreds of students annually

The GE Aerospace Classrooms will function as hands-on learning spaces where K-12 students experiment with aerospace concepts using the museum's collection. The funding also covers staffing for a museum educator who will run reservable, object-based field trips called "Museum Labs" at the Washington location.