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Racine – September 16, 2026 -- Modine Manufacturing Company (NYSE: MOD) will rename itself Modexus Solutions once it completes the spinoff of its Performance Technologies business and merges the remaining operations with Gentherm, the company confirmed. The rebrand requires shareholder approval and the new entity will keep trading under the existing ticker, MOD.

Gentherm shareholders approve transaction at September 10 meeting

Gentherm shareholders overwhelmingly approved the deal at a special meeting held on September 10, 2026. The transaction is expected to close October 1, 2026, pending customary closing conditions.

Chicago – September 16, 2026 -- Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (CBOE) will send four top executives to present at the Barclays Global Financial Services Conference in New York City on September 16 at 12:00 p.m. ET.

Cboe's CEO and three senior leaders will address investors at the New York conference

Chief Executive Officer Craig Donohue will be joined by Prashant Bhatia, Executive Vice President and Head of Enterprise Strategy & Corporate Development; Jill Griebenow, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; and Rob Hocking, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Derivatives.

Cboe will stream the session live and archive it within an hour

The presentation will be webcast live and later archived on ir.cboe.com under the Events and Presentations section, with the recording expected to be available within an hour of the live event.

Little Rock, Arkansas – September 16, 2026 -- The American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP) inducted Pine Bluff advocate Bob Abbott into its newly created Kidney Advocate Hall of Fame on September 10, opening the organization's 51st annual National Patient Meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas.

AAKP launches inaugural Hall of Fame class at Clinton Presidential Center

The induction ceremony took place during AAKP's Policy Forum session at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center, recognizing Abbott alongside medical experts, federal officials, and researchers as part of the Hall of Fame's first cohort. AAKP's tribute cited more than five decades of advocacy work by Abbott, owner and manager of Abbott Enterprises Inc. in Pine Bluff.

San Francisco – – September 16, 2026 -- Nasuni has acquired DryvIQ, adding AI-powered content classification and governance tools to its unstructured data platform for enterprise and AI workloads. Carlsquare advised DryvIQ on the transaction; financial terms were not disclosed.

Nasuni folds content intelligence into its file data platform to close a governance gap

The deal gives Nasuni's platform content-level discovery, classification, sensitivity detection and automated policy-driven governance, extending visibility beyond Nasuni's own environment into more than 40 cloud and on-premises repositories. Nick Burling, Chief Product Officer at Nasuni, said the company has added edge performance through Resilio, permission-aware AI access through AI Activate, and now governance through DryvIQ within the same year, positioning UniFS as a single foundation to manage, move, classify, govern and activate enterprise file data.

Arlington, Va. – September 16, 2026 -- HNTB Corporation has appointed Henrika Buchanan as its transit and rail market sector leader, tasking her with steering strategy and client service across the firm's passenger rail, transit and multimodal transportation programs.

Buchanan brings 27 years of transportation leadership to the role

Buchanan joined HNTB in 2021 after holding senior posts at the Federal Transit Administration, including associate administrator for transit safety and oversight and chief safety officer. In those federal roles, she oversaw national transit safety, capital investment and program oversight initiatives, including major federal funding and recovery programs.

Washington, D.C. – September 16, 2026 -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has appointed Paul Brubaker as its new Executive Director, installing him as the agency's chief operating officer over programmatic, operational, and administrative functions.

Brubaker takes charge of CPSC's regulatory portfolio and hazard-response operations

Brubaker will manage CPSC's regulatory portfolio and help direct efforts to identify and address consumer product hazards. He brings nearly four decades of public and private sector leadership in technology, cybersecurity, data analytics, organizational strategy, and federal management.

Redmond, Wash. – September 16, 2026 -- XKL LLC has begun global shipments of its MediaLight Xponder and Muxponder systems, a 1RU optical transport platform offering 100G and 400G capacity with zero recurring software licensing fees, the company announced. The systems started shipping to customers in August 2026, targeting enterprise, cloud, and regional service provider networks facing hardware lead times of 20 to 60-plus weeks industry-wide.

Compact chassis packs 24 license-free transceiver ports into a single rack unit

The MediaLight platform consolidates high-density optical transport into a 1RU form factor, eliminating multi-linecard chassis complexity. Each unit supports 24 license-free QSFP-DD/QSFP28 transceiver ports with soft-configurable 100G and 400G transport, reducing rack space and power consumption compared to legacy multi-card systems.

Providence, R.I. – September 16, 2026 -- Havoc, a U.S. collaborative autonomy company, and CSBC Corporation, Taiwan, the island's largest shipbuilder, have signed a partnership to pursue licensed co-production of autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) for Taiwan's maritime security.

Partnership pairs U.S. autonomy software with Taiwan-built hulls

Under the agreement, Havoc's collaborative autonomy software will be integrated onto ASV platforms built by CSBC in Taiwan, with production and lifecycle sustainment handled locally. The deal targets Taiwan's domestic shipbuilding capacity, headquartered in Kaohsiung with shipyards in Kaohsiung and Keelung, founded in 1973.

Indianapolis – September 16, 2026 -- Crystal Risotti, Senior Manager of Validation in Quality Assurance at CTI, has been named a Pinnacle Professional of the Year by The Inner Circle for her three-decade career in information technology quality assurance and regulatory compliance across pharmaceuticals, medical devices and clinical laboratories.

Risotti built her career from clinical trial lab work in 1990 to enterprise-wide compliance leadership

Risotti entered the pharmaceutical industry in 1990 as a clinical trials laboratory worker before moving through customer service, project management, training and Tier 4 help desk roles. She later specialized in software development life cycle consultation, 21 CFR Part 11 compliance, and electronic quality management system implementation, working remotely from Indianapolis, Indiana while based at CTI's Covington, Kentucky office.

New York – September 16, 2026 -- A three-phase study of more than 5,000 registered U.S. voters has found that while affordability is the single most persuasive argument for clean energy, most Americans do not believe solar and wind power are actually inexpensive. The research, commissioned by Heatmap News from Embold Research and published as "Communicating about Climate and Clean Energy in an Age of Affordability," found that 55% of voters believe solar and wind are cost-competitive only because of government subsidies, and 57% say clean energy advocates exaggerate how cheap the technologies have become.