Supply Chain

Construction Input Prices Up 8.4% as Sectors Compete for Labor

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.

Transmart Targets North America With Ultra-Thin Core Tech for AI Data Centers

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.

Firestone, Matterhorn Acquire Marietta Industrial Asset at 100% Occupancy

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.

Zifo: Fragmented CMC Data Creates 'Billion-Dollar Bottleneck' in Biopharma

Cambridge, Mass. – September 30, 2026 -- Biopharma companies are losing time and money to a recurring pattern of disconnected experiments and manual data reconciliation that Zifo calls the 'DMTA doom loop,' according to a new position paper from the scientific informatics firm.

Zifo identifies a structural flaw in the Design-Make-Test-Analyse process

The paper, titled 'The Billion-Dollar Bottleneck: Why CMC Is Strangling the Biopharma Pipeline,' argues that the DMTA cycle used in chemistry, manufacturing and controls (CMC) work is forced into a rigid, linear execution model rather than adapting to what the science actually requires. Zifo says evidence in many CMC environments is scattered across scientific applications, instruments, spreadsheets, PDFs, batch records and individual expertise, forcing scientists to reconstruct experimental histories and decision reasoning before they can even begin new work.

Landis+Gyr Launches Revelo E370 Sensor With RF Mesh Support

Atlanta – – September 30, 2026 -- Landis+Gyr has made its Revelo E370 grid-edge sensor commercially available, adding compatibility with its Gridstream RF Mesh network protocol to the Revelo sensing platform.

New sensor adds RF Mesh to existing Wi-SUN and Mesh IP support

The Revelo E370 now supports three network protocols -- Landis+Gyr RF Mesh, Mesh IP and Wi-SUN -- with Wi-Fi included as a standard feature. Roque Martin, Senior Vice President of Connected Platforms at Landis+Gyr, said the design gives utilities greater visibility and intelligence at the grid edge to detect and respond to safety events faster.

Cyolo Launches AI Tool to Flag Risky OT Remote Sessions in Real Time

Miramar, Fla. – September 30, 2026 -- Cyolo has launched Live Risk Detection, an AI-powered capability that monitors active remote sessions in operational technology (OT) environments and alerts security teams within seconds of detecting cyber or operational risk.

Cyolo targets the gap between login verification and session-long threat monitoring

The company, a provider of secure connectivity for critical infrastructure and OT, said the tool addresses a scaling problem: as employees, vendors, and OEMs increasingly perform critical OT work remotely

TeamSnap Launches National Sampling Network, Scales to 2M+ Product Drops

Chicago – – September 30, 2026 -- TeamSnap, the youth sports management platform, has launched TeamSnap Sampling, a national product distribution offering that has already scaled campaigns to more than 2 million samples through its Activation Network.

Brands including Kraft Mac & Cheese and Meiji Hello Panda are placing products directly with sports families

Meiji Hello Panda ran a sampling campaign through youth sports leagues that produced a 64% lift in brand familiarity and a 22% increase in monthly purchases among participating league families. Kraft Mac & Cheese and Capri Sun have also joined the sampling network to reach active sports households.

Miter Raises $40M Series B to Fix Construction's 'Frankenstack' Tech

San Francisco – September 30, 2026 -- Miter, an AI-powered workforce management platform for the construction industry, has raised a $40 million Series B round led by Battery Ventures, pushing its total capital raised to $78 million. Existing backers Bessemer Venture Partners and Coatue also participated in the round.

Construction sector defies broader U.S. job slowdown

The construction industry added 22,000 jobs in August even as overall U.S. employment declined, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI data center construction drove much of that growth, a trend both the sector and Miter expect to continue.

DuPont Launches Digital Advisor for Sugar Separation Resin Selection

Wilmington – September 30, 2026 -- DuPont has launched the Sugar Separation Advisor, a digital tool that helps sugar and sweetener manufacturers identify candidate DuPontTM AmberLiteTM chromatography resins for food and beverage ingredient production.

Tool draws on years of experimental laboratory data to speed resin selection

Built on decades of chromatography application expertise, the platform allows users to select a target sugar or sweetener for recovery or purification, add up to four additional sugars or impurities representing their feed stream, and generate a predicted chromatogram based on laboratory-generated separation data. The system then delivers a qualitative separation assessment and suggests AmberLiteTM resin candidates for further testing, rather than relying on a theoretical performance model.

Quantum Space Taps All Points Logistics for Prime Mission Launch Prep

Rockville, Md. – – September 30, 2026 -- Quantum Space, LLC has signed a mission-specific work order with All Points Logistics, LLC to handle spacecraft processing, propellant servicing and launch-site operations for its Prime mission at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, targeting a launch in the second half of 2027.

All Points will manage clean-room and ground support work ahead of Prime's launch campaign

Under the new agreement, All Points will provide clean-room facilities, propellant servicing support, launch-site safety and operational reviews, ground support activities, and transportation of the spacecraft to the launch vehicle integration facility. The scope builds on an existing Master Services Agreement between the two companies and establishes dedicated tasks for Prime's ground processing at Vandenberg.