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Berlin – September 07, 2026 -- The TÜV-Verband will present its "TÜV-Report Nutzfahrzeuge 2026" during an online press conference on September 9, 2026, at 10:00 a.m., drawing on an analysis of 2.4 million main vehicle inspections covering trucks, vans and other commercial vehicles.

Report to detail defect rates ahead of IAA Transportation trade show

The briefing precedes the IAA Transportation trade fair and will cover the technical safety condition of Germany's commercial vehicle fleet based on mandatory inspection data. The findings will address defect patterns identified during roadworthiness testing, performance of electric commercial vehicles, and barriers to electrifying freight transport.

Analysis to include first Chinese-built van in German market

The report will also assess the inspection performance of the first van imported from China to enter the German market, alongside broader fleet safety trends.

Qidong – September 07, 2026 -- Covation Biomaterials LLC (CovationBio) has produced its first on-spec commercial batches of Xatryx.T bioTHF and Xatryx® bioPTMEG at its 50,000-ton Qidong plant, four months after the facility's mechanical completion in April 2026. The company simultaneously unveiled the world's first athletic insole made with a non-food bio-based material, developed with insole brand INSITE®, at the NW Materials Show in Portland, Oregon on September 2-3, 2026.

San Jose, Calif. – September 07, 2026 -- MulticoreWare, Inc. has acquired Simulus Automation Pvt. Ltd., a semiconductor design and verification specialist, to merge hardware engineering with its existing AI software and accelerated computing business.

MulticoreWare adds native FPGA design capabilities to its compute portfolio

The deal brings High-Level Synthesis and RTL implementation expertise in-house, completing MulticoreWare's heterogeneous compute stack alongside its existing CPU, GPU, DSP, and NPU capabilities. The combined team will target sensor fusion and Physical AI workloads for edge and robotics applications.

Riyadh – September 07, 2026 -- COFE Tech has closed a pre-IPO funding round valuing the company at $178 million, setting a target for a listing on the Saudi Exchange by 2029. The round was announced at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh and co-led by Wa'ed Ventures, the venture capital arm of Aramco, and Aditum Investment Management, a regional fund partner to global asset managers including BlackRock. Masarrah Investment Company and Alyasra Foods also participated.

Aramco's Wa'ed Ventures Anchors Investor Consortium Ahead Of Saudi IPO

The capital injection backs COFE Tech's shift from a consumer coffee marketplace app, formerly branded COFE APP, into an enterprise AI and B2B SaaS operator. Founder and CEO Ali Al-Ebrahim said the company was built to unify procurement, sales and inventory systems that typically do not communicate with one another across Gulf enterprises.

Berlin – September 07, 2026 -- Germany's largest pharmaceutical trade association, Pharma Deutschland, has warned that new cost-containment measures under the GKV-BStabG threaten drug supply, innovation, and investment in the country, even as it welcomes a fresh round of government dialogue on AMNOG reform.

Federal Ministry convenes stakeholders for September 3 dialogue

The Federal Ministry of Health has invited industry representatives to an in-depth discussion on Thursday, September 3, 2026, focused on harmonizing Germany's drug pricing and assessment framework. Pharma Deutschland, which represents roughly 400 member companies employing about 80,000 people in Germany, said it backs the continuation of the Pharma- und Medizintechnik Dialog but insists selective bureaucratic fixes cannot offset broader damage from recent legislation.

Redwood City, Calif. – September 07, 2026 -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) unveiled Equinix Fabric One, a managed any-to-any connectivity service built on open specifications co-developed with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, at the company's inaugural Horizon customer event.

Fabric One automates connectivity across cloud, AI and enterprise networks

Rather than assembling networking component by component, customers specify connectivity requirements through a portal, APIs, automation workflows or natural-language prompts. Equinix Fabric One then orchestrates routing, cloud connectivity, encryption, resiliency and failover as a single managed service.

Redwood City, Calif. – September 07, 2026 -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) will launch Equinix Inference Exchange in Q1 2027, a distributed AI inference program built with NVIDIA and Together AI that runs across the company's global data center footprint.

Equinix pairs NVIDIA's reference architectures with Together AI's model platform

The program combines NVIDIA's validated Enterprise Reference Architectures with Together AI's inference platform, which supports more than 200 open-source models. Delivery runs through Equinix's global data centers, with connectivity to clouds, networks and AI providers via Equinix Fabric.

The announcement came at Equinix Horizon, the company's first customer and partner event, alongside a companion product, Equinix Fabric One, designed to simplify cross-metro connectivity for distributed AI environments.

Allen, Texas – September 07, 2026 -- Elsight has secured a Basic Ordering Agreement with the US Army for its Halo connectivity technology, deepening its ties with the branch following its recent addition to the DCMA Blue UAS Cleared List.

Halo connects uncrewed systems across 500,000 operational hours

The technology enables beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations across air, land, and maritime domains by bonding cellular, satellite, and RF communications into a single resilient layer that automatically selects the optimal path. Elsight reports the system has logged over 500,000 operational hours across more than 100 customers, with active deployments in high-intensity combat environments and multiple conflict front lines globally.

Braselton, Ga. – September 07, 2026 -- Metabo HPT, a KOKI Group company, has introduced Cordless Pneumatics, a first-of-its-kind nailer category for North America that delivers pneumatic firing speed of up to six nails per second without hoses or compressors.

New nailer line eliminates compressor setup that costs framers roughly 150 hours annually

The company estimates crews spend as much as 45 minutes per day on compressor setup, hose management and teardown, equal to roughly 150 hours per year per framer, or nearly four weeks of lost productivity. Removing that equipment burden is central to the new category's pitch to professional framing crews facing tighter schedules and persistent labor shortages.

Shanghai – September 07, 2026 -- The global solar generator and plug-in solar storage market grew from roughly USD 1.1 billion in 2021 to USD 2.6 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach approximately USD 5.8 billion by 2030, according to a new white paper from Frost & Sullivan.

Market shifts from niche backup power to core household energy infrastructure

Frost & Sullivan attributes the more than fivefold expansion since 2021 to rising demand for household backup power, outdoor electricity use, self-consumption and energy independence. The research firm states that solar generators and plug-in storage devices are evolving from scenario-specific supplementary tools into comprehensive household energy solutions.