Xinhua Silk Road: E China's Linyi Trade City launches int'l sourcing center to foster foreign trade

BEIJING, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Linyi Trade City, a regional commodity hub located in east China's Shandong Province, has recently launched an international sourcing center where foreign purchasers can easily find what they need within just one building.

There are currently 324 corporate tenants at the center and each of them is closely linked to more than 10 upstream manufacturers, ensuring great commodity diversity for foreign buyers.

In general, competitive local products such as building materials, machinery, hardware, personal protection gear, home goods and daily necessities are pooled for one-stop bilingual display at the center.

On its opening day on September 28, over 100 foreign purchasers visited the center. Sales staff at stores of a local chemical trading firm even received several groups of foreign buyers.

Compared with its peers, the international sourcing center of Linyi Trade City has set up a specialized foreign trade service team to facilitate offline communication between local and foreign merchants.

The team also helps store merchants cultivate online orders through e-commerce platforms and assists with related procedures including customs declaration, vessel booking, overseas customs clearance and overseas warehouse delivery.

At the center's stores, foreign-language-speaking salesclerks only need to receive foreign buyers, while the rest sales process can be handled by the center's foreign trade service team.

As a regional commodity hub home to clustered professional wholesale markets, Linyi Trade City is confident that it can help in-zone merchants sell over six million types of local goods to the world.

Compared to spending six to seven days bustling around wholesale markets in Linyi Trade City in the past, foreign buyers can now buy all the commodities they are interested in within the building of the center.

On its top floor, there are veteran goods consolidators that own export channels. It is thus convenient for them to search for goods for foreign buyers or for foreign importers to select goods there.

The center also features a cross-border e-commerce industrial park and an international logistics park. Thanks to these facilities, cross-border transport costs for related goods drop by about 20 percent, crafting a competitive local foreign trade ecosystem covering "product selection, exhibition, transaction, logistics and payment".

Supported also by thoughtful services for foreign purchasers including international hotels, halal catering and multilingual support, Linyi Trade City's international sourcing center welcomes global merchants with professionalism and hospitality.

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WuXi XDC Named the Winner of "Best CDMO" for the Fourth Consecutive Year and the Winner of "Best CRO" for the Second Consecutive Year

SHANGHAI and SAN DIEGO, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- WuXi XDC Cayman Inc. ("WuXi XDC", stock code: 2268.HK), a leading global Contract Research, Development and Manufacturing Organization (CRDMO) focused on the bioconjugate industry, today announced that it has been named the winner of "Best CDMO" at the 2026 World ADC Awards for the fourth consecutive year, along with the winner of "Best CRO" for the second consecutive year. WuXi XDC was the only CRDMO to claim both honors for two consecutive years in this year's awards. These awards not only recognize the Company's excellence in end-to-end, one-stop CRDMO services and innovative R&D capabilities, but also affirm its global leadership in the bioconjugate industry.

As one of the most influential annual awards in the global ADC sector, the World ADC Awards honor companies, teams and innovations that have made outstanding contributions to the field. This year's World ADC Conference brought together global experts, scholars, and industry leaders to focus on the full lifecycle progress of ADCs and XDCs, from R&D stage to commercialization, as well as the latest breakthroughs in bioconjugates.

Dr. Jimmy Li, CEO of WuXi XDC, stated, "We are proud to have been named the winner of 'Best CDMO' for the fourth consecutive year and 'Best CRO' for the second consecutive year. We are also more aware than ever of the weight of this trust and thank our global clients and partners for their continued support. As the demand for bioconjugates becomes increasingly diverse, WuXi XDC will continue to be grounded in technological innovation, supported by global collaboration and high-quality delivery, and empower our clients to advance bioconjugates to clinical and commercial stages faster and more reliably, creating greater value for the industry and patients."

As a leader in the bioconjugate CRDMO sector, WuXi XDC has earned industry recognition through its deep technical expertises, experience with complex processes, and one-stop services. By integrating cutting-edge technologies and global teams of industry experts, WuXi XDC ensures seamless multidisciplinary collaboration throughout the bioconjugates development process, minimizing risk and maximizing efficiency to keep projects moving forward smoothly and rapidly. The Company's integrated ADC discovery services have successfully enabled clients to advance from DNA to preclinical candidate (PCC) within 10 months, from DNA to IND application within 15 months, and from late-stage development to BLA within 24 to 36 months.

In terms of R&D, WuXi XDC has built a technology portfolio spanning conjugation technologies (WuXiDARx™) and proprietary payload-linkers technologies (WuXiTecan-2™, X-LinC™, and WuXiLinker™). In February and August 2026, based on its WuXiTecan-2™ technology platform, the Company signed licensing agreements with Earendil Labs and Ona Therapeutics respectively, to collaborate on advancing three iCMC projects. To date, the Company has completed research on more than 22,000 ADC/XDC molecules and continues to explore cutting-edge areas such as bispecific ADCs, dual-payload ADCs, RDCs, DACs, AOCs, and APCs. In terms of global footprint, WuXi XDC has established a global network across Wuxi, Singapore, Shanghai, Suzhou, Hefei, and Jiangyin. In August 2026, the BCM3 dual-function production line and the DP4 facility at the Singapore site successfully achieved GMP release, marking the official launch of the Company's first overseas manufacturing site.

According to WuXi XDC's 2026 interim results, as of June 30, 2026, the Company had more than 810 global clients, and 15 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies by revenue have chosen WuXi XDC as a partner. The Company has cumulatively enabled clients to submit more than 160 IND applications, with 328 iCMC projects, including 51 newly signed in the first half of 2026, a record high. The Company currently has more than 3,600 employees, over 50% of whom hold a master's degree or higher. Leveraging a comprehensive talent development framework and dedicated talent programs, WuXi XDC continues to build high-caliber, globally minded talent pools.

About WuXi XDC

WuXi XDC Cayman Inc. (stock code: 2268.HK) is a globally recognized contract research, development, and manufacturing organization (CRDMO) specializing in bioconjugates. The company offers a wide range of innovative conjugation and payload-linker technologies to facilitate the development of next-generation antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs). Focused on early-stage research and development of ADCs and other bioconjugates, WuXi XDC offers comprehensive one-stop services from preclinical to commercial manufacturing. Its services cover antibody intermediates and other biologics intermediates, chemical payloads and linkers, as well as bioconjugate drug substances and drug products. For more information about WuXi XDC, please visit: www.wuxixdc.com

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New spatial experience allows machinists and manufacturers to view, inspect, and configure CNC machinery in their own workspaces before purchase

TORONTO, ON and JAFFREY, N.H., Oct. 15, 2026/PRNewswire/ -- miniMonster Automation, a Canadian manufacturer of compact CNC machining centers, today announced the launch of a new augmented reality (AR) product experience developed in partnership with Shivoo Studios LLC.

The experience allows prospective buyers, machinists, and fabricators to place full-scale 3D models of miniMonster CNC machinery and accessories in their own shops using supported mobile devices.

As more industrial buyers evaluate capital equipment remotely, spec sheets and 2D video can only go so far. They don't show how a machine will actually fit, move, or function within a customer's workspace. The new AR experience addresses that gap by giving buyers a more interactive way to understand miniMonster equipment before making a purchase decision.

Users can explore 1:1 scale models of the lemontart 33metal, lemontart 24pico, and +1 Rotary Axis, including:

- Full-Scale Spatial Placement: Position CNC frame kits within an existing shop to evaluate overall footprint and operating clearances.

- Component Exploration: Examine internal assemblies, including C5 precision-ground ballscrews, high-preload linear guide rails, and spindle clamps, through detailed 3D views.

- Modular Configuration: Visualize options including automatic tool changers (ATC), zero-point workholding plates, and fourth-axis rotary attachments before selecting a build.

"Machinery can be difficult to evaluate remotely, particularly when customers need to understand how it will work within their own space," said Terence Kreuger, CEO of miniMonster Automation. "This gives them a way to explore the machine at full scale, compare configurations, and better understand what they're purchasing before it arrives."

"For complex physical products, seeing something at scale changes the conversation," said Sterling Youngman, CEO of Shivoo Studios. "Augmented reality gives buyers a way to understand how a machine fits into the real environment where it will be used, instead of relying solely on photographs, video, or specifications."

The miniMonster AR experience is available beginning today on supported iPhone and Android devices.

About miniMonster Automation

miniMonster Automation (minimonster.ca) is a Canadian technology manufacturer specializing in high-rigidity vertical CNC machining centers. The company develops frame kits and turnkey machinery, including its lemontart series, for precision metal cutting, rapid prototyping, and manufacturing applications.

About Shivoo Studios LLC

Shivoo Studios LLC (shivoostudios.com) is an immersive media and extended reality (XR) production company headquartered in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Combining traditional storytelling craft with emerging technologies, Shivoo creates interactive and immersive experiences across augmented reality, mixed reality, virtual reality, animation, film, and virtual production.

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N3XT clients can pledge dollars held at the bank as collateral,

including for 24/7 trades on Clear Markets' regulated SEF

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Clear Markets and N3XT, a fully reserved, Wyoming-chartered U.S. bank, today announced that N3XT has joined the Collateralizer® network as a custodian for U.S. Dollar deposits, and Clear Markets is opening an account with N3XT.

In an industry first, institutions will be able to pledge USD held at a regulated bank, N3XT, managed on Clear Markets' multi-custodian platform as collateral for 24/7 transactions, including forwards, options, and swaps traded on the Clear Markets Swap Execution Facility (CMSEF), funding for third-party exchanges, and security for borrowing. Together, N3XT and Clear Markets empower institutions with real-time 24/7 active collateral management that meets a critical, growing demand for dollar infrastructure to secure burgeoning, 24/7 financial markets.

CMSEF is a CFTC-regulated swap execution facility for 24/7 institutional digital-asset and crypto derivatives trading, on a single global order book. Collateralizer® is Clear Markets' separate proprietary collateral-management service, connecting independent bank custodians for margin and collateral workflows. Through the Collateralizer®, bank clients can pledge USD cash held at N3XT under agreed custody and collateral-control arrangements. N3XT provides cash custody and account-control agreements, while Clear Markets provides collateral management technology without taking custody of client funds.

The pairing allows institutions to allocate collateral and meet initial and variation margin calls as portfolio values change, while the dollars remain at an independent bank custodian. N3XT's programmable payments move between N3XT accounts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, supporting margin movement on the same clock as overnight and weekend trading in digital-asset and crypto derivatives.

"Our goal is to make it easier for institutions to trade swaps and other derivatives while holding their collateral safely at an independent bank custodian," said Shawn Dorsch, President of Clear Markets. "Adding N3XT to the Collateralizer® network gives clients a place for their dollar collateral and streamlines regulated swap execution, cash custody, and collateral management on digital rails."

"Capital markets are moving toward an increasingly 24/7 environment, and institutions need dollar infrastructure that can move instantly and with the markets," said Jeffrey Wallis, Chief Executive Officer and President of N3XT. "By connecting our 24/7-dollar rails to the Clear Markets Collateralizer® network, our clients can now use cash securely held at N3XT as collateral for institutional digital asset and real-world asset trading on-chain, with Clear Markets providing the collateral management technology."

Clients can also use dollars held at N3XT as collateral for other purposes supported by the network, including funding for third-party exchanges and security for borrowing, under agreed custody and control arrangements. N3XT and Clear Markets continue to explore additional ways to put round-the-clock dollars to work across trading, collateral and settlement workflows.

About Clear Markets

Clear Markets operates a CFTC-regulated swap execution facility for 24/7 institutional digital asset and crypto derivatives trading on a single global order book. Through its proprietary Collateralizer®, Clear Markets supports collateral management across a network of independent banks and custodians. The management team includes pioneers of the OTC swaps and derivatives markets with experience in fixed income, credit derivatives, collateral management, and the transition to 24/7 electronic trading. Clear Markets is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, with offices in New York, London and Tokyo.

About N3XT

N3XT is a full-reserve digital bank on a mission to liberate money through programmable, near-instant payments. Built on a private, permissioned blockchain, N3XT enables businesses to send, receive, and reconcile U.S. Dollar payments 24/7/365. Clients can securely settle on-chain or transact across public blockchains using the N3XT Digital Dollar (NDD). N3XT never lends. 100% of deposits are backed 1:1 by cash and short-term U.S. Treasuries.

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ATLANTA, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Restaurants are bringing their dishes to life like never before courtesy of groundbreaking new menu technology by Popmenu. The company's new Spotlight Menu pairs its signature SEO and AEO with Instagram-style dish videos to help restaurants rank high in Google and AI searches and boost orders.

Nearly a decade ago, Popmenu reinvented the restaurant menu, replacing static lists with a visual, interactive, mobile-first experience that drives more traffic and sales. Now serving 12,000+ restaurants globally, Popmenu is once again reimagining menus to reflect how guests prefer to consume digital content today.

Restaurants can build the vibe they want and stand out from competitors and third-party marketplaces by:

- Showcasing a highlights reel with mouthwatering videos of featured dishes, loyalty rewards, the restaurant's story, and more.

- Providing all the information guests need to choose a dish: photos, videos, reviews posted through their website and Google, allergens and nutritional information.

- Promoting events, specials and more through a menu ads reel.

- Leveraging AI to enable guests to search the menu using text prompts.

View the new menu experience at this link.

"Bringing an Instagram or TikTok feel to your menu helps you compete at a much higher level for customers choosing their next dining destination, especially among younger consumers who have grown up immersed in short-form videos and other engaging content," said Brendan Sweeney, CEO and Co-founder of Popmenu. "Guests instantly get a taste of what they'll experience at your restaurant. If I'm scrolling and come across a menu with a lot of text versus one with videos, the choice is pretty easy. I'm going with what I can see."

According to a 2026 Popmenu survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers, 82% are more likely to choose restaurants with online menus that feature photos and reviews compared to those with text-only menus. The same percentage are more likely to order a dish with a video compared to one with just a photo.

"Guests are reining in spend," Sweeney continued. "Every missed order or empty table hits harder. You have to make your food impossible to ignore. Our new menu experience was built to do just that."

On average, consumers spend $100 a week on restaurants, down from $115 in June 2025. Nearly 7 in 10 (68%) say they are reducing their spend on restaurants this year.

Popmenu's AI-powered solutions are designed to help restaurants of all sizes win business at every step of the guest journey—from the moment they start searching for a place to eat online to when they order and decide whether to return. This includes everything from custom websites, direct online ordering, and automated, personalized marketing to AI phone answering, waitlisting and reservations, and a consumer app. Popmenu also offers the most native integrations for online ordering, delivery and reputation management.

About Popmenu

As a leader in restaurant technology, Popmenu is on a mission to make profitable growth easy for all restaurants. Digital marketing, online ordering, and on-premise technologies headline a powerful product suite infused with AI, automation, and deep data on guest preferences. The company consolidates tools needed to engage guests, serving as a digital control center for more than 12,000 independent restaurants and hospitality groups in the US, UK, Canada and Mexico. For more information, visit popmenu.com.

Jennifer Grasz

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Customer-driven recognition includes Best Estimated ROI, Best Meets Requirements and High Performer honors across mission-critical healthcare communication and IT incident response categories

WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- OnPage Corporation, a provider of an advanced, secure critical communication and collaboration platform that ensures urgent alerts are never missed, today announced that it earned 19 badges across 86 G2 Fall 2026 reports, reflecting customer recognition across five categories spanning healthcare and IT: Clinical Communication and Collaboration, HIPAA Compliant Messaging, Medical Staff Scheduling, IT Alerting and Incident Management.

Among its most notable Fall 2026 honors, OnPage earned Best Estimated ROI for Medical Staff Scheduling and Best Estimated ROI – Mid-Market for Incident Management, as well as Best Meets Requirements – Enterprise for Incident Management. The company also received multiple High Performer recognitions across Clinical Communication and Collaboration, HIPAA Compliant Messaging, Medical Staff Scheduling, IT Alerting and Incident Management, with distinctions spanning small-business, mid-market and enterprise organizations as well as the Canadian market.

"Whether a care team is coordinating a time-sensitive patient event or an IT team is responding to a high-severity incident, the goal is the same: critical information needs to reach the right person, be acknowledged quickly and be escalated when action is not taken," said Judit Sharon, founder and CEO of OnPage. "This G2 recognition is especially meaningful because it reflects the experiences of customers using OnPage across healthcare and IT and across organizations of different sizes. Recognition for ROI, requirements fit and high performance reinforces our commitment to helping customers reduce response friction, accelerate action and ensure urgent communications never get missed."

OnPage also achieved strong rankings in G2's Fall 2026 Implementation Indexes. The company ranked No. 2 in the overall, Small-Business and Mid-Market Implementation Indexes for Medical Staff Scheduling and No. 2 in the Enterprise Implementation Indexes for both IT Alerting and Incident Management.

Customer feedback on G2 reflects the reliability and ease of use behind the recognition. "OnPage is extremely reliable for critical alerts and escalations," wrote David M., a help desk technician at a managed service provider, who also highlighted the platform's persistent delivery, acknowledgement and escalation capabilities for after-hours response. A nurse practitioner, Lem D., noted that "the escalation of messages if urgent works pretty well," describing the capability as particularly important for remote clinical work and communication among providers, patients and frontline staff.

Additional results include a No. 3 ranking in the Enterprise Usability Index for IT Alerting, a No. 3 ranking in the Enterprise Results Index for IT Alerting and a No. 3 ranking in the Small-Business Relationship Index for Clinical Communication and Collaboration.

G2 publishes its reports quarterly based on verified customer reviews and publicly available market presence data, giving software buyers insight into products across categories, company sizes, geographies and specific measures such as implementation, usability, relationships and results. G2 is the world's largest and most trusted software marketplace, with more than 100 million people annually using the platform to make software decisions based on authentic peer reviews.

For healthcare organizations, OnPage's unified, HIPAA-compliant clinical communication and collaboration platform helps break down fragmented communication and ensure critical events rise above everyday notification clutter. The platform brings together secure messaging, persistent mobile alerts that can override silent mode, native on-call scheduling, role- and team-based alerting, configurable escalation policies, direct patient-provider communication and integrations with EHRs, nurse call systems, remote patient monitoring solutions and other clinical technologies. Together, these capabilities help care teams improve real-time coordination, reduce communication delays and ensure urgent information reaches the appropriate clinician when action is required.

For IT operations, DevOps, SRE and managed services teams, OnPage's incident alert management and on-call management platform extends monitoring, observability, ITSM, RMM and ChatOps systems with automated alert orchestration and persistent, real-time mobile alerts. OnPage combines precision-based alert assignment, persistent Alert-Until-Read notifications, fail-safe on-call scheduling, automated escalation, secure team collaboration and real-time incident visibility to help teams reduce alert fatigue, shorten response and resolution times and strengthen operational resilience.

To learn more about OnPage's critical communication and collaboration platform, visit https://www.onpage.com/.

To view customer reviews and OnPage's latest G2 recognition, visit OnPage's G2 profile here: https://www.g2.com/products/onpage/reviews.

About OnPage

OnPage Corporation empowers healthcare organizations and IT teams to significantly improve their event detection and response with an advanced, secure critical communication and collaboration platform. By unifying automation, secure messaging, collaboration and real-time analytical insights, OnPage's purpose-built platform supports complex workflows with unmatched precision and ensures that urgent alerts are never missed. For healthcare organizations, OnPage offers an all-in-one, HIPAA-compliant clinical communication platform designed to accelerate response times, improve coordination, enhance patient outcomes and reduce risks. For IT teams, OnPage provides an automated incident alert management and on-call scheduling platform, streamlining incident response by delivering persistent, real-time alerts to the right on-call engineers, reducing mean time to resolution and boosting operational efficiency. OnPage's solutions are widely adopted across various industries, including healthcare, IT and managed services, manufacturing and field services. Founded in 2011, OnPage is certified as a Women's Business Enterprise (WBE) by the Center for Women & Enterprise, a regional partner of the Women's Business Enterprise National Council, and actively champions women-owned businesses to drive impactful change. For more information, visit https://www.onpage.com.

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Huawei Proposes Next Generation OTN for AIDC-Centric All-Optical Network

VIENNA, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- During NetworkX 2026, Huawei shared its vision for building the "LIGHTS" All-Optical Network at the Optical Transport Innovation Summit. Huawei outlined three waves of AI-driven opportunities for operators and explained how an AIDC-centric all-optical network, powered by Huawei's Next Generation OTN solution, enables them to drive business growth.

AI Drives Three Waves of Opportunities for Operators

The rapid evolution of AI unlocks three waves of opportunities for operators: DC interconnection for hyperscalers, private lines for enterprise computing power, and integrated computing and network services. This is reshaping optical transport: from a basic network serving consumer and home (ToC and ToH) users, to a business network serving enterprises (ToB) and AI; from administrative-division-based planning, to AIDC-centric planning.

NEXT GENERATION OTN Solution Enhances AIDC-Centric All-Optical Network

To seize these opportunities, operators need an AIDC-centric all-optical network. Huawei proposes the LIGHTS target network as a key priority for operators in the AI era, with six key capabilities: Low Latency, Intelligent Operation, Green Foundation, High Reliability, Tbps-level Capacity, and Security Assurance.

Gavin Gu, president of Huawei's Optical Transmission Network Domain presented Huawei's Next Generation OTN solution, which responds to the need to build the LIGHTS target network by covering both DCI and DCA scenarios.

For DCI, Next Generation OTN delivers 800G to 2T ultra-high-speed capacity and an OTN capacity pool, which uses minimal resources to pre-deploy capacity in multiple directions. It helps operators achieve fast time-to-market (TTM), maximize fiber capacity, and meet the Tbps-level bandwidth and rapid delivery requirements of DCI traffic.

For DCA, Huawei offers end-to-end (E2E) OXC for a meshed, one-hop direct architecture, millisecond-level WSON for guaranteed high availability, fgOTN for flexible bandwidth from 10Mbps to 1Gbps, and an integrated QKD solution for quantum encryption. In addition, Next Generation OTN has been upgraded in both hardware and software to deliver an end-to-end "zero-outage network."

LIGHTS All-Optical Network Drives Business Growth

Powered by the LIGHTS all-optical network, operators are evolving from a bandwidth-only sales model to delivering core capabilities and value-added services. Computing-power private lines are advancing from a single bandwidth dimension to multiple dimensions covering bandwidth, latency, reliability, and security. This enables operators to offer differentiated services for different industries and improves pricing power. Meanwhile, the convergence of computing and network services is also accelerating. In Hubei, China, for example, operators are combining network and computing advantages to launch integrated services across industries such as education, healthcare and finance.

The LIGHTS all-optical network for the AI era is helping operators seize AI-driven opportunities, realize network monetization and achieve business growth. Huawei will collaborate with industry partners to advance technological innovation and business growth, accelerating the optical transport industry's evolution into the AI era.

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Croatian and Serbian tourism and business professionals strengthen partnerships at Zagreb event ahead of EXPO 2027 Belgrade

ZAGREB, Croatia, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Croatian and Serbian tourism and business professionals came together yesterday at the "Visit Expo B2B Networking" event in Zagreb to explore concrete business opportunities ahead of EXPO 2027 Belgrade, the first Specialised Expo in the Western Balkans.

The event combined business presentations, a panel discussion and targeted B2B meetings, enabling participants to establish contacts, exchange ideas and explore potential partnerships. It highlighted how EXPO 2027 can build on the strong economic ties between Croatia and Serbia to generate new business opportunities across the region.

Igor Kovačević, Chief Operations Officer (COO) and Director of the International Participants Department at EXPO 2027, highlighted Zagreb's strategic role in connecting the European Single Market with Serbia and the wider Western Balkans. He noted that EXPO 2027 aims to strengthen these connections by creating a meeting point between the region and the wider European and global economy.

Turning networking into business opportunities

The panel discussion, "Opportunities and Impact of EXPO 2027", explored opportunities for tourism and regional businesses. A B2B speed-networking session enabled participants to discuss potential hospitality and tourism partnerships.

According to the Croatian Chamber of Economy, bilateral trade reached nearly EUR 1.9 billion in 2025. EXPO 2027 offers opportunities to strengthen cooperation across multiple sectors. Beyond trade, the Chamber identified opportunities to deepen ties in tourism, transport, energy, IT, construction and agriculture.

About EXPO 2027 Belgrade

Taking place from 15 May to 15 August 2027 under the theme "Play for Humanity: Sport and Music for All", EXPO 2027 Belgrade will welcome more than 140 international participants and is expected to attract around four million visits.

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Jinhua's Shangshan Culture Exhibition Opens in Harare "DAWN-LIT RICE SOURCE GLOWING MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS" brings China's ancient rice-farming heritage to Zimbabwe

HARARE, Zimbabwe, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- An exhibition showcasing China's ancient Shangshan culture — which provides some of the world's earliest evidence of rice cultivation — opened on October 12 in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, as part of Jinhua's 2026 "Into Africa" cultural tourism initiative. Titled "DAWN-LIT RICE SOURCE GLOWING MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS," the exhibition uses rice and pottery as its central themes to foster cultural dialogue between China and Africa. Among those attending the opening ceremony were Zimbabwe's Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Tsitsi Gezi and Tang Xiaoping, Minister-Counselor at the Chinese Embassy in Zimbabwe. The event is hosted by the Jinhua Municipal People's Government and organized by the Jinhua Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism.

The exhibition highlights Shangshan culture, associated with a Neolithic archaeological site in eastern China's Zhejiang province that provides key evidence of China's 10,000-year cultural history. The broader Shangshan culture is also associated with early painted pottery and the emergence of settled village life in East Asia.

The display is organized into three sections that trace how early communities farmed, crafted, and built:

- "The First Grain of Rice" — Carbonized rice grains and pottery fragments mixed with rice husks provide evidence of rice cultivation at Shangshan dating back approximately 10,000 years.

- "The First Stroke of Red" — Red-painted pottery bearing sun patterns and geometric symbols offers a glimpse into how these ancient people observed the sky and tracked the seasons.

- "The First Village" — A reconstruction of a moat-enclosed settlement with stilt-style houses offers a glimpse of early settled village life in China.

The exhibition also features hands-on activities, including Juyan tea tasting, pottery-fragment puzzles, and traditional Luban lock puzzles. Visitors can also explore examples of Jinhua's intangible cultural heritage, including Wuzhou kiln porcelain, Dongyang wood carvings, and Wu opera costumes. The exhibition aims to encourage cultural exchange and mutual understanding by bringing China's 10,000-year rice-farming heritage into dialogue with the cultures of southern Africa.

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Kenflo to Connect with Global Industry Professionals at TURKCHEM EURASIA and ADIPEC 2026

FOSHAN, China, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Kenflo, a professional pump manufacturer established in 1954, is pleased to announce its participation in two international exhibitions in November 2026.

Kenflo will exhibit at ADIPEC 2026 from November 2 to 5, which will be held at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Centre, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Visit the team at Hall 8, Stand 8354 to explore Kenflo's pump and vacuum equipment for chemical processing, petrochemical and energy-related applications.

From November 25 to 27, at the Istanbul Expo Center in Türkiye, Kenflo will take part in TURKCHEM EURASIA 2026 and InterDye & Textile Printing Eurasia 2026. Find Kenflo at Hall 5, Stand 5C08 to discover pump and vacuum technologies and discuss your application needs.

Featured Products at the Exhibitions:

2BE1 Liquid Ring Vacuum Pump

The 2BE1 Liquid Ring Vacuum Pump features a single-stage, single-acting design and a wide suction pressure range. Its applications include vacuum distillation and crystallization in the petrochemical industry, as well as vacuum systems in power generation, pharmaceutical processing, and other industrial sectors.

CBK Liquid Ring Vacuum Compressor

The CBK Liquid Ring Vacuum Compressor is designed for applications requiring relatively high discharge pressure and medium-to-low capacity. With a discharge pressure range of 0–0.7 MPa(G) and a capacity range of 1–150 m³/min, it supports gas recovery and compression processes, including refinery gas recovery and offshore oil and gas applications.

KCC Standardized Chemical Centrifugal Pump

The KCC Standardized Chemical Centrifugal Pump uses computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technology to optimize hydraulic design. Conforming to ISO 5199 and SH/T 3140 standards, with bearing construction in accordance with API 610, the series is designed for transferring selected industrial solvents, aqueous solutions, amines, and corrosive media under suitable operating conditions.

CDF Liquid Ring Vacuum Pump

The CDF Liquid Ring Vacuum Pump features a compact structure and cantilever impeller design, helping save installation space and simplify maintenance. Suitable for relatively low-capacity applications, it serves processes such as vacuum filtration, distillation, and impregnation in the chemical and textile industries, as well as vacuum drying and packaging.

Kenflo looks forward to meeting industry professionals and potential partners at the exhibitions, sharing its pump and vacuum expertise, and exploring opportunities to work together.

About Kenflo

Founded in 1954, Kenflo is a professional pump manufacturer integrating research and development, production, and sales. With more than 1,000 employees and three production bases spanning 210,000 square meters. Kenflo manufactures centrifugal pumps, liquid ring vacuum pumps, compressors, and related equipment for customers across a range of industries.

Kenflo combines in-house capabilities in molding, casting, welding, heat treatment, machining, assembly, and testing with dedicated technical and testing centers. Its engineering team develops pump applications and complete equipment solutions, while ongoing investment in research and production technology supports dependable products for markets in China and abroad.

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