AMSTERDAM -- September 01, 2026 -- SWI Group, an Amsterdam-listed investment firm with 3.6 gigawatts of electrical capacity across Europe and the United States, announced on August 31, 2026 that it has joined the NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) program as a preferred partner. The designation places SWI Group in a limited circle of NVIDIA partners with validated AI infrastructure skills. Membership gives the firm access to NVIDIA's reference architectures and validated configurations for rolling out NVIDIA-certified compute capacity as its platform expands.

Dublin -- CURRENT_DATE -- Half of 152 European merchants surveyed by Temu said they expanded production capacity or hired new staff since joining the e-commerce platform, according to the Temu Small Business Insights Report 2026. The online survey ran in June and July 2026 among sellers in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom. One in three respondents said they expanded into new international markets after starting to sell on Temu, which has opened its Local Seller Program to businesses in more than 35 markets since 2024.

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- September 01, 2026 -- Amgen said its cholesterol drug Repatha reduced the risk of death by 20% among more than 12,000 high-risk adults who had not yet suffered a heart attack or stroke, based on a pre-specified analysis of the Phase 3 VESALIUS-CV trial. The company presented the data in a late-breaking session at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2026 in Munich, Germany, and published the findings simultaneously in Circulation.

CHAM, Switzerland -- -- EYKON unveiled its new corporate brand on Aug. 31, 2026, completing the separation of the former Landis+Gyr EMEA business into an independent utility infrastructure technology company. The Cham-based firm carries forward more than 130 years of Swiss utility engineering history under its new name. EYKON currently serves customers across more than 75 markets and supports over 100 million connected endpoints in the EMEA region.

Incheon, South Korea and Zug, Switzerland -- Samsung Biologics, through its Swiss subsidiary Samsung Peptide AG, published the formal tender offer prospectus for PolyPeptide Group AG, setting a cash price of CHF 44.31 per share and an implied equity value of approximately CHF 1.46 billion. The filing, made in Zug, Switzerland, follows a pre-announcement issued July 20, 2026, and covers all publicly held shares of the peptide-focused contract manufacturer listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange. The main acceptance period runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 12, 2026.

JINAN, China -- September 01, 2026 -- Niutech Technology Group Co., Ltd. has signed a sales contract with an unnamed global energy giant to supply an industrial continuous pyrolysis line for plastic waste, the Jinan-based company said Aug. 30, 2026. The line, with a unit capacity of 10,000 to 50,000 tonnes per year, will upgrade one of the client's large-scale refineries to produce hydrotreated sustainable aviation fuel from plastic-waste pyrolysis oil. Niutech called the deal its first entry into the client's equipment supply chain.

HELSINKI -- August 31, 2026 -- UPM-Kymmene Corporation's Extraordinary General Meeting approved a partial demerger on August 31, 2026, clearing the way to spin off a new independent company, WISA Group Plc. Shareholders confirmed the demerger plan signed by UPM's Board on April 29, 2026, and approved WISA's Articles of Association, its six-member Board of Directors, and share-issuance and buyback authorizations for the new entity. All resolutions concerning WISA remain conditional on completion of the demerger.

Jinan, China -- September 01, 2026 -- Niutech Technology Group Co., Ltd. signed a sales contract with a major global energy company for an industrial continuous pyrolysis line that converts plastic waste into feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel, the Jinan-based firm said Aug. 31, 2026. The system, rated at 10,000 to 50,000 tonnes per year, will retrofit one of the client's large-scale refineries to run the full chain from plastic pyrolysis oil to hydrotreated SAF. Niutech said the deal marks its first entry into the client's equipment supply chain.

ESPOO, Finland -- September 01, 2026 -- S-Transistors, a startup spun out of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, has raised €2.6 million in pre-seed funding to commercialize a new class of superconducting transistors for controlling large-scale quantum computers. Lifeline Ventures led the round, joined by an angel investor, the company announced on Aug. 31, 2026. The capital will fund prototype development for cryogenic signal control, a dedicated cryogenic laboratory, and a manufacturing pilot line for the company's superconducting integrated circuits.

AMSTERDAM -- September 01, 2026 -- SWI Group (AMS: SWICH), an investment firm with 3.6 gigawatts of power capacity across Europe and the US, announced on Aug. 31, 2026 that it has joined the NVIDIA Cloud Partner program as a Preferred Partner. The designation gives SWI Group access to NVIDIA reference architectures and validated configurations for deploying certified AI infrastructure. The move follows SWI's recent acquisition of a majority stake in a 1.3-gigawatt US data center company and its build-out of a 2.3-gigawatt European portfolio.