United States

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 8, 2025 - As more practices adopt chairside 3D printing, many clinicians worry quietly about what it means for long-standing dental lab relationships-but rather than replacing labs, in-house production is reshaping them into higher-value, more strategic partnerships built around clearly defined roles and shared digital workflows.

From Full Lab Dependency to Hybrid Production

For years, the dominant model in restorative and appliance production has been full lab dependency: every crown, bridge, model, surgical guide, night guard or retainer went out the door to a third-party provider. In that setup, "Lab controls your timeline. Lab controls your cost per case. Lab capacity limits your capacity. Emergency cases wait on lab availability."

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 8, 2025 - Chairside 3D printing has moved from conference buzzword to everyday reality in U.S. dental practices, and SprintRay is positioning its ecosystem as a way for clinics to bring production in-house, compress treatment timelines, and turn same-day crowns into a strategic differentiator rather than a marketing slogan.

From Lab Dependency to In-Practice Production

At its core, "chairside" simply means producing the restoration in your own practice while the patient is still in your care, instead of sending cases to an external lab and waiting one to two weeks. Clinically, the workflow is familiar-examination, preparation, design and cementation remain the same-but the fabrication step moves from a third party you can't control to equipment in your operatory that you can.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 4, 2025 - Restaurant operators facing tight margins and rising equipment costs have a new digital sourcing option as CrazyGoodBuy.com officially launches with a combination of deeply discounted commercial kitchen gear and a weekday "one-cent" auction format aimed squarely at independent and multi-unit foodservice businesses across the United States.

Auction-Based Equipment Buying for Cost-Pressed Operators

At the core of the new platform is the CrazyGood Buy Daily Deal Auction, a simple but aggressive model designed to help operators access premium equipment without tying up unnecessary capital. Each weekday at 9:00 a.m. Eastern, the site lists a single piece of brand-new equipment-ranging from refrigeration and prep tables to cooking lines and bar essentials-with bidding starting at just one cent and running until 5:00 p.m.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 4, 2025 - Butler National Corporation's Avcon Industries has secured European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) approvals for its non-halon portable fire extinguisher retrofit on Learjet cabins, giving operators a certified, drop-in path to meet the looming December 31, 2025 halon phase-out deadline. The new approvals extend an earlier FAA Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) and position Avcon as a one-stop regulatory solution provider for Learjet fleets operating across North America, the UK and Europe.

Halon Phase-Out Drives Urgent Retrofit Decisions

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 4, 2025 - Cresta Fund Management is expanding its senior leadership team to support the next phase of growth, appointing industry veteran David Altshuler as Partner and Head of Capital Formation and promoting two long-standing team members into expanded roles. The Dallas-based private equity firm, which focuses on energy infrastructure across industrial, logistics and agricultural sectors, is sharpening its institutional capital-raising capabilities as limited partners seek specialist managers with operational depth and clear energy-transition strategies.

Bringing a Capital Formation Heavyweight Into the Partnership

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 4, 2025 - Workday has secured its position as a four-time Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software, underscoring how the company's AI-enabled platform is becoming a strategic hub for finance teams navigating volatility, pricing pressure and tighter capital markets. The recognition highlights Workday Adaptive Planning's role in helping financial planning and analysis (FP&A) organizations shift from static budgeting to always-on, scenario-based planning.

Four Years as a Gartner Leader in Financial Planning

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 4, 2025 - Ubicquia has unveiled a coordinated next-generation smart streetlighting portfolio built around its new UbiCell® Micro controller, major enhancements to the UbiVu® infrastructure management platform and the launch of UbiScout™, an AI video accessory that turns existing streetlights into multi-purpose urban sensors for safety, mobility and energy efficiency.

Integrated portfolio targets utilities and cities under pressure to modernize

With grid operators and municipalities facing rising energy costs, decarbonization targets and aging infrastructure, Ubicquia's new offering is designed to make large-scale modernization of streetlighting networks faster and more manageable. The company positions the portfolio as a way to deliver asset intelligence, remote control and AI analytics without wholesale replacement of installed luminaires.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 4, 2025 - Velvære, a 60-acre wellness-focused, ski-in/ski-out residential community in Deer Valley's new East Village, has secured a restructured $555 million construction revolver to complete its luxury estates, vertical residences and private amenities, underscoring continued investor appetite for high-end U.S. residential destination projects.

$555 million revolver anchors a $1 billion alpine masterplan

The new capital structure combines $197 million in fresh financing from Anchor Loans with existing commitments into a multi-product construction revolver. Arranged and advised by LFB Ventures, with equity backing from Toba Capital, the facility is designed to fund land development, amenity construction and vertical build-out across the project's diverse product mix.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 4, 2025 - Vortex Control Technologies (VCT) has signed a fleet-wide retrofit agreement with Norwegian to equip all Boeing 737-800 aircraft with its patented Finlet fuel-saving modification, aligning the Nordic carrier's cost discipline with a more aggressive sustainability strategy in short- and medium-haul aviation.

Aerodynamic retrofits move from trial to fleet standard

Under the new agreement, Norwegian will install VCT Finlets across its entire 737-800 fleet, following in the footsteps of early adopters such as Avelo Airlines, SunExpress and the U.S. Air Force. The deal marks a pivot from pilot programs to full-fleet deployment, signaling growing confidence among operators that incremental aerodynamic improvements can deliver material savings at scale.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 3, 2025 - AGC Biologics is expanding its Cell Line Development Center of Excellence through a new partnership with ATUM, integrating the Leap-In Transposase® expression platform to help biopharma developers move monoclonal antibodies and complex next-generation biologics into the clinic faster and more cost-effectively.

New options for faster, more flexible cell line development

As pressure grows to launch high-value biologics at lower cost, drug sponsors are looking for cell line development (CLD) solutions that combine speed, robustness and scalability. AGC Biologics' collaboration with ATUM adds a modern transposase-based expression platform to its CLD toolkit, creating a menu of fit-for-purpose options for standard monoclonals, multi-specific antibodies and other complex molecules.