Meadville, Pa. – – September 28, 2026 -- Three Pennsylvania manufacturers -- CHANNELLOCK, W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery Company and Zippo Manufacturing Company -- are marking Manufacturing Day on Oct. 2 with a joint limited-edition product set, collectively employing more than 1,150 people across Meadville and Bradford, Pa., and representing roughly 355 years of combined company history.

Kawanishi – September 28, 2026 -- Green Science Alliance has more than doubled the performance of its aqueous rechargeable aluminum-ion battery (AAIB) by swapping the cathode current collector for a commercially cheap conductive carbon rubber sheet, according to research led by Dr. Ryohei Mori.

Hubei – September 28, 2026 -- Hubei Nature New Material Sanitary Appliance Co., Ltd. (NAITRON) has integrated PLC-based digital controls with its patented thermosetting molding technology (TMT) to manufacture granite composite kitchen sinks, targeting more consistent quality and higher-volume output for OEM and ODM clients worldwide.

St. Louis – September 28, 2026 -- Balto Software has launched Kodi, an AI coworker for contact center leaders that moves beyond generating insights to directly executing approved changes across the tools teams use to run daily operations.

San Francisco – – September 28, 2026 -- Fulcrum has launched a certificate workflow that turns an emailed request into a complete, endorsement-ready certificate in under a minute, built on the same policy data the platform already uses for policy checking and proposal generation.

Denver – September 28, 2026 -- Vertafore has launched its Velocity Document Intelligence Agent, an AI tool that cut document research time by up to 90% in early testing, reducing tasks that took 20 minutes to just two minutes.

Stamford, Conn. – September 28, 2026 -- Charter Communications' Spectrum brand has activated compute capacity across more than 1,000 owned and operated edge data centers, placing processing power within 10 milliseconds of 500 million connected devices in U.S. homes and businesses.

Boston – September 28, 2026 -- John Hancock has expanded its protection insurance portfolio, enhancing its Protection Indexed Universal Life solution (Protection IUL 26) and its term life insurance suite to give financial professionals more tools for addressing clients' long-term planning needs.

Dallas – September 28, 2026 -- Conifers has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Standalone AI SOC Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment (doc # US54127026, September 2026), the company announced.

New Orleans – September 28, 2026 -- LabWare has launched LabWare WATER, a cloud-based SaaS platform designed to help smaller municipal water utilities manage sampling, laboratory testing, documentation, and regulatory reporting from a single system.