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Bethesda, Md. – September 13, 2026 -- Centrus Energy Corp. [NYSE: LEU] has signed a definitive multi-year contract to supply high-assay, low-enriched uranium (HALEU) to Radiant, adding a new domestic fuel customer as deliveries are set to begin before the end of the decade.

Contract includes prepayments to fund Centrus enrichment build-out

The agreement adds Radiant to Centrus' HALEU customer backlog and includes prepayments to Centrus that will support the company's domestic commercial enrichment capacity program. The fuel will supply multiple Kaleidos microreactors as Radiant scales from its first test unit toward commercial and national security deployments.

Seoul – September 13, 2026 -- SK keyfoundry has signed a long-term wafer supply agreement with Elmos Semiconductor SE that guarantees production capacity through 2037, extending an 18-year partnership between the Korean 8-inch foundry and the German automotive chipmaker.

The deal, signed during a ceremony in Frankfurt am Main, shifts the two companies' collaboration from 350nm to 130nm process technology, marking the first major node transition in nearly two decades of cooperation.

New 130nm platform enables deep-trench isolation for high-voltage automotive chips

SK keyfoundry's 130nm technology incorporates deep-trench isolation (DTI), which provides electrical separation and supports highly integrated, high-voltage circuit designs with low substrate current. The foundry positions this capability as the technical basis for a broader range of automotive semiconductor products developed with Elmos going forward.

Boulder, Colo. – September 13, 2026 -- Integral Consulting Inc. has acquired Heritage Environmental Consultants, a Western U.S.-based environmental planning, permitting, and scientific services firm, expanding its footprint in the Mountain West region.

Heritage adds ecological and permitting expertise to Integral's service portfolio

Heritage Environmental Consultants, founded in 2008, brings capabilities in wildlife biology, terrestrial and aquatic ecology, soil science, hydrology, water and air quality, and geographic information systems. The combined firms will offer clients integrated solutions spanning environmental planning, permitting, ecological science, and regulatory compliance from early project development through long-term implementation.

Tucson – September 13, 2026 -- Delta Development Team (DDT) has launched BloodCOMM®, a cloud-based blood management platform designed to digitize and automate blood supply chain tracking for hospitals, blood centers, EMS agencies, and air medical providers.

Platform creates digital identity for every blood unit from collection to disposition

BloodCOMM® uses barcode scanning, AI-powered label recognition, and automated event tracking to monitor blood unit location, temperature, expiration status, inspections, transfers, and excursions throughout the product lifecycle. The system builds a digital cold chain of custody record, capturing patient identifiers, product details, and deviation history as events occur rather than reconstructing them from paper logs or spreadsheets after the fact.

North Billerica, Mass. – September 13, 2026 -- Mass-Vac, Inc. has launched the MV Multi-Trap® Vacuum Inlet Trap, a high-capacity filtration unit for plastic extrusion lines that is field-proven to extend vacuum pump life by more than 12 years.

Extrusion byproducts threaten pump reliability across manufacturing lines

Volatile materials released during extruded plastic and composite processing can degrade vacuum pumps over time, driving unplanned downtime and maintenance costs for manufacturers. The new trap is designed to intercept these byproducts before they reach the pump, using a two-stage filtration system built from 304 stainless steel.

Two-stage filtration combines knockdown baffle with gauze filters

The device features a full first-stage knockdown baffle followed by a second stage of stainless steel gauze filters, with an optional bottom cooling feature. Mass-Vac offers the trap in 10

Vienna – September 13, 2026 -- Elizaveta Rîmscaia of Moldova was crowned Overall Champion at the Julius Meinl International Barista Cup 2026 Grand Finale, held September 4 in Vienna's MuseumsQuartier, beating 14 other national champions across three brewing disciplines.

Austrian barista Mario Benetseder claims cappuccino title on home turf

Benetseder secured the win in the Cappuccino discipline, judged on the interplay of espresso and milk plus latte art execution. Stefan Kot of Poland took the Espresso category, evaluated on taste, balance and crema, while Luka Darispanashvili of Georgia won Signature Drink for creativity and flavor cohesion.

Competition drew over 350 applicants across 15 countries

National qualifying rounds ran in 15 markets including Austria, Italy, Germany, China, Georgia and Croatia, narrowing more than 350 barista applicants down to 15 national champions who advanced to the Vienna final.

Bohemia, N.Y. – September 13, 2026 -- Carrier pay per mile for U.S. car shipping rose 22.8% year over year in the first half of 2026, while the prices consumers paid climbed only 14.6% over the same period, according to a new data report from SGT Auto Transport covering 30 months of shipment records.

The report, The State of Auto Transport 2026, draws on organically acquired shipment data from January 2024 through June 2026, spanning all 49 U.S. states and 1,581 distinct state-to-state lanes in the most recent 12 months. Rate figures are mix-adjusted to a fixed distance profile.

Carrier pay accelerated sharply from March, the month the Strait of Hormuz closed

Carrier pay ran 9.2% above the prior year in January and 11.7% in February, then jumped to 14.9% in March, 32.8% in May and 34.7% in June -- a trajectory the report ties to the Strait of Hormuz closure that same month.

Denver – September 13, 2026 -- AidKit, a Certified B Corp providing technology infrastructure for government and nonprofit aid programs, has been named to Fast Company's 2026 list of the 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators, selected from more than 1,200 applications reviewed by Fast Company editors.

AidKit's Community Advisory Council brings aid recipients into system design

The recognition centers on AidKit's Community Advisory Council (CAC), an employee-originated program that embeds people with lived experience of receiving aid directly into the design of benefit systems. The initiative grew from concerns raised by staff in product, operations and impact teams that public benefit systems are typically built for recipients rather than with them, often collecting feedback too late to improve outcomes.

Riyadh – September 13, 2026 -- NourNet, a Saudi digital services provider, closed its participation at LEAP 2026 by unveiling a beta AI Agent Platform and expanding its flagship data center to 10 MW and up to 750 racks.

NourNet's new platform keeps AI workloads inside the Kingdom

The AI Agent Platform combines Agentic AI with Inference-as-a-Service, letting organizations build, deploy and operate intelligent agents that automate operational tasks, execute multi-step workflows and interact with enterprise data. Hosted entirely within NourNet's Saudi data centers, the platform offers Arabic-tuned and multilingual models while ensuring customer data and AI workloads do not leave the Kingdom.

Chandler – September 13, 2026 -- VIAVI Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAV) will present a full-stack data center test portfolio at booth 1001 during ECOC 2026, running September 21-23 at the FYCMA exhibition center in Malaga, Spain.

Hyperscalers push 1.6T rollouts while planning for 3.2T networks

Cloud providers are deploying 1.6T technologies within racks, across clusters and between data centers as AI infrastructure scales, with 3.2T architectures already in planning. These builds depend on 16x224G and 8x448G lane designs enabled by Silicon Photonics, Co-packaged Optics (CPO) and dense optical connectivity, driving sharp growth in fiber density and multifiber interconnects.