Richmond – September 19, 2026 -- Alps Dx has named 26-year diagnostics industry veteran Pam Lacock as vice president of sales and opened a new 2,030-square-foot headquarters and manufacturing hub in Richmond, Virginia, as the company shifts from product development toward broader commercialization of its oral fluid testing platform.
Vancouver, BC – September 19, 2026 -- Reach Systems Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of NameSilo Technologies Corp. (CSE: URL) (OTCQB: URLOF), has posted year-to-date bookings of approximately $2.2 million, up 108% from roughly $1.06 million in the same period last year.
The Nanaimo, British Columbia-based marine technology and subsea equipment manufacturer is increasing its operating space from 3,559 square feet to 8,031 square feet, effective October 1. The expansion adds manufacturing, assembly and testing capacity to support the growing order book.
Reach employed 17 people at the September 19, 2026 closing of its acquisition by NameSilo. The team has since grown to 24 employees.
Manitoba – September 19, 2026 -- 1911 Gold Corporation has cleared the path for test mining this fall at its True North Gold Project after completing dewatering of A-Shaft and Level 26, positioning the company for a planned 2027 production decision.
1911 Gold awarded an underground development contract to SCR Mining & Tunnelling, which has mobilized crews and specialized mobile equipment to lead mining, mechanical and electrical activities at the site. Additional haulage trucks and utility vehicles are scheduled to arrive through September and October to support the ramp-up.
San Jose, Calif. – September 19, 2026 -- Trackonomy Systems has completed the acquisition of Identiv's IoT label business, creating Trackonomy Group, a vertically integrated Physical AI supply chain spanning semiconductors, smart labels, and end-to-end tracking solutions.
The newly formed group combines InPlay, a Bluetooth Low Energy semiconductor supplier; Identiv, a manufacturer of NFC-, RFID-, and BLE-enabled IoT labels; and Sentient, the original smart label pioneer with readers, label-application robotics, camera tunnels, and a cloud platform. Together, the three units process nearly 20 million shipments daily and are targeting more than 200 million connected assets.
Beijing – September 19, 2026 -- Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. fielded its self-developed humanoid robots in the standing high jump, 100-meter sprint and standing long jump at the second World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, testing gait algorithms and joint responsiveness under high-speed, complex control conditions.
The machines delivered consistent performances across all three disciplines, demonstrating integration of hardware architecture, AI algorithms and motion-control systems. Zeng Guang, general manager of Zoomlion's ZValley, said the competitions assessed AI capabilities and real-world deployment readiness beyond raw speed and strength, allowing the company to benchmark its technology against international teams and refine reliability for industrial settings.
Kyoto – September 19, 2026 -- ROHM Co., Ltd. has developed the RS4P063BPHZG, a 100V MOSFET delivering approximately five times the Safe Operating Area (SOA) tolerance of standard equivalent-sized products under VDS=100V and PW=100 microseconds.
The RS4P063BPHZG is optimized for airbag inflator ignition circuits, seat belt pretensioner drive circuits, and pyro-fuse drive circuits for battery cutoff. ROHM engineered the device to effectively suppress secondary breakdown, achieving Wide-SOA performance across a broad voltage range while housed in the standard HPLF5060 (5060-size) package widely used across automotive applications.
Shenzhen – September 19, 2026 -- Tencent Cloud has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Edge Services 2026 Vendor Assessment, positioning its EdgeOne platform against a field of global edge providers now competing on AI inference performance rather than legacy content delivery metrics.
The IDC MarketScape (doc #US54122426, September 2026) states that content delivery performance and network proximity are now baseline expectations rather than differentiators. Vendors are instead being evaluated on GPU availability, model deployment tooling, inference latency, and token cost efficiency compared with centralized cloud AI services.
Beijing – September 19, 2026 -- China's fixed-asset investment fell 7.2% year on year in the first eight months of 2026, yet the total remained substantial at roughly 29.3 trillion yuan (US$4.33 trillion), with capital increasingly redirected toward technological innovation and modern infrastructure.
Wang Guanhua, spokesperson for the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), attributed the decline to heat waves, typhoons, and floods disrupting construction, alongside external uncertainty and a domestic shift from traditional to new growth drivers that has made businesses more cautious. She said investment performance should not be judged solely by growth rate, but by its role in supporting economic transformation.
Paris – September 19, 2026 -- Intellian Technologies Inc. and Network Innovations have signed a strategic partnership to jointly develop and distribute what they describe as the world's first tactical ground terminal capable of simultaneous Mil-X, Mil Ka-band, and commercial Ka and Ku-band connectivity for military and government customers.
The flyaway platform is built for the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) constellation and is designed for multi-orbit operations spanning LEO, MEO, GEO, and HEO satellites. The deployable systems can be made operational in as little as 30 minutes, targeting expeditionary forces and mission-critical deployments requiring secure, high-capacity communications.
Brussels – September 19, 2026 -- A global 5% cap on virgin plastics production would cut global household welfare by $128.4 billion, compared with just a $0.5 billion decline under targeted recycling policies achieving the same reduction in plastic leakage, according to a new Oxford Economics study commissioned by the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA).
The report, Evaluating Policy Pathways to End Plastic Pollution, is the second phase of Oxford Economics' analysis for ICCA, following its 2024 study Mapping the Plastics Value Chain.