Manufacturing & Industrial Technology

Toronto – – September 13, 2026 -- Denarius Metals Corp. (Cboe CA: DMET; OTCQX: DNRSF) has secured a preferential option from the Regional Government of Castilla and Leon to acquire up to 28 new mining grids covering approximately 800 hectares adjacent to its Toral Project in Spain, a move that would expand its total land position in the Leon Mining District to roughly 3,700 hectares. The company separately disclosed a maiden NI 43-101 Mineral Resource Estimate for the 100%-owned Toral Project, prepared by Resource Development Associates with an effective date of July 24, 2026.

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.

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

Eaton, Ohio – September 13, 2026 -- Bullen Ultrasonics' Miller Williams Facility in Eaton, Ohio, has been named a 2026 IndustryWeek Best Plants Award winner, one of four North American manufacturers recognized this year for quality, automation and continuous-improvement performance.

Facility posts final customer yields above 98% with cycle times cut 14%

The plant maintains final customer yield levels exceeding 98%, with first-pass yield regularly topping 97%. Targeted continuous-improvement efforts reduced production cycle times by approximately 14% in key areas.

Wilmington, Massachusetts – – September 13, 2026 -- Stafford Manufacturing Corp. has released a full line of shaft collars, couplings, and flange mounts engineered specifically for conveyor and packaging equipment in the food and beverage sector, targeting operators that require frequent wash-down cycles under USDA and FDA compliance standards.

New product line fits round, square and hex bores across multiple materials

The Stafford Shaft Collars, Couplings & Flange Mounts are machined from 303 and 316 stainless steel, food-grade Blue Acetal, Nylon, or Delrin, paired with 18-8 or 316 stainless steel fasteners. The components are available in one- and two-piece designs, giving equipment manufacturers flexibility for assembly and maintenance without full shaft disassembly.

San Bruno, Calif. – September 13, 2026 -- Chariot Defense, a maker of software-defined power distribution systems for the battlefield, has appointed four defense and venture capital veterans to its Board of Advisors, following a $34 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz and a $7.4 million contract with the Pentagon's Department of War Innovation Unit (DIU).

Hong Kong – September 13, 2026 -- SANY Heavy Industry (600031.SH) reported first-half 2026 revenue of approximately $7.89 billion, up 19.49% year-on-year, with attributable net profit rising 9.13% to $838.887 million.

Second-quarter revenue growth outpaces first-half rate at 24.39%

Q2 revenue reached $4.328 billion, exceeding the H1 growth rate, while attributable net profit for the quarter climbed 16.93% to $473.108 million. Operating cash flow totaled $1.440 billion. As of June 30, total assets stood at $26.708 billion and equity at $13.576 billion.

Hsinchu – September 13, 2026 -- Spirox Corporation (TWSE: 3055) unveiled its SP7000G high-speed TGV crack inspection system, a tool designed to support mass production testing of glass substrates for next-generation AI and HPC packaging.

Spirox scans a full 510mm by 515mm glass substrate in under 20 minutes

The SP7000G detects internal micro-cracks after metallization and ABF build-up processes, according to the company. Spirox positions the system to improve inspection efficiency, monitor process quality and defect distribution, and optimize yield as Through Glass Via (TGV) technology moves toward volume manufacturing.

Taipei – September 13, 2026 -- DFI has introduced the ARH171/ARH173, a Mini-ITX embedded platform that runs on two Intel Core Ultra processor generations from a single board, targeting AI-driven robotics and industrial automation.

Platform delivers up to 99 TOPS to power on-device AI inference

The ARH171/ARH173 supports 16 Intel Core Ultra processor options spanning Meteor Lake-U/H and Arrow Lake-U/H, with power ranges of 15-28W and Intel vPro available on select SKUs. Arrow Lake-H configurations reach up to 99 total platform TOPS, with the integrated Intel Arc GPU and dedicated NPU accelerating inference through OpenVINO, DirectML, and ONNX RT, reducing dependence on discrete graphics cards.

Chatsworth, Calif. – September 13, 2026 -- Aitech has unveiled the 3U VPX C530 and SOSA-aligned U-C5300 GPGPU boards, delivering up to 9,728 CUDA cores, 304 Tensor Cores and 76 ray-tracing cores for defense and aerospace platforms. The rugged AI accelerators produce up to 35.8 TFLOPS of FP32 compute performance and 576 GB/s of memory bandwidth, targeting real-time AI inference at the tactical edge.

New boards replace prior-generation GPGPU configurations without increasing size, weight or power

The C530 and U-C5300 succeed Aitech's previous rugged GPU line, giving system integrators and mission computer manufacturers higher AI inference throughput and enhanced graphics performance within the same SWaP envelope. Both boards support PCIe Gen4 connectivity, CUDA software tools, and Windows and Linux operating systems.