Product Launch

Cleveland – October 19, 2026 -- Sherwin-Williams Industrial Wood has released Industrial Wood Colormix® 2027, a forecast that sorts emerging wood color, stain and finish directions into three collections: Revive, Reignite and Reconnect.

The Industrial Wood DesignHouse developed the forecast. It targets manufacturers, designers, architects and specifiers, and is meant to translate broader lifestyle trends into finish solutions they can apply.

Research from the Greensboro DesignHouse underpins the three collections

The trends draw on ongoing research by the Sherwin-Williams DesignHouse in Greensboro, North Carolina. The team studies cultural shifts, consumer behavior, architectural trends and material influences to identify design directions for the wood finishing industry.

Bolingbrook – October 19, 2026 -- Gerflor North America has begun offering select sports flooring products that contain Nike Grind materials, made from manufacturing scrap and end-of-life footwear, under an authorized licensee arrangement.

Gerflor North America becomes an authorized Nike Grind licensee

The company uses Nike Grind-derived material as an ingredient in eligible flooring products. The offering is limited to select products rather than the full portfolio.

Gerflor North America says the move supports its focus on responsible material sourcing and product innovation.

Torrington – October 19, 2026 -- Therap Services will unveil new AI Analyses and expanded Fatal Five health tracking at a virtual showcase on October 20, 2026, with the AI tools offered at no additional cost to Therap users.

Therap AI Analyses consolidate data across platform modules

The tools pull and evaluate documentation from multiple modules to produce person-centered insights and high-level summaries. Therap says the output helps human services providers streamline daily reviews and strengthen clinical oversight. The product targets a common problem: clinical and administrative teams struggle to identify underlying health trends and programmatic progress across agency-wide documentation.

San Francisco – October 19, 2026 -- JustAI launched a full-stack agentic marketing platform that combines CRM, orchestration, creative, delivery infrastructure and measurement in one AI-native system, with customer results including a 30% rise in loan application starts at Better Mortgage and a 27% subscription lift at Coursera.

The company, founded by former Twitter and Pinterest growth leaders, is expanding from personalization at scale to the entire marketing stack. The platform runs on its Marketing Harness. Customers span education, financial services, insurance and consumer technology, including Coursera, Pinterest, Airtable and Lemonade.

Huzhou – October 19, 2026 -- Tianneng Holding Group has unveiled a battery portfolio covering four technology pathways (lead-acid, lithium-ion, sodium-ion and solid-state) at its Global Alliance Partner Conference 2026 in Huzhou, Zhejiang. Approximately 300 partners from around the world attended the event, held under the theme "Leading Eco-Benefit."

Portfolio targets two- and three-wheelers, industrial power and grid storage

The chemistries are aimed at electric two- and three-wheelers, low-speed vehicles and industrial motive power. They also target energy storage for homes, AI data centers, commercial and industrial users, and utility-scale projects.

Atlanta – October 19, 2026 -- The Weather Company has made Weather Story Assist generally available on its Max Cloud platform, giving station groups an AI co-pilot that builds localized weather stories from a single forecast without adding headcount.

The tool targets linear television, streaming, web, social and mobile output. Local meteorologists keep full editorial authority over every story, graphic and script, and nothing is published or aired without a meteorologist's explicit approval.

Weather Story Assist automates story research and asset search inside Max Cloud

The product ships with two functions. The first, "Grounding the Story in Minutes," surfaces historical content, record data and story angles behind a forecast. Each item is traced to its source, so meteorologists can build narratives without starting from scratch.

Fortville – October 19, 2026 -- Thursday Poles has launched EnduraPOLETM, a line of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite utility poles for electric distribution systems, and is taking orders now.

EnduraPOLE targets utilities that now use wood, steel and concrete poles

The company positions the fiberglass composite poles as an alternative to wood, steel and concrete for applications where service life, grid resilience and installation efficiency are priorities. According to the company, the construction is designed to better withstand demanding environmental conditions without the rot, corrosion, moisture damage or biological deterioration that can affect other pole materials over time.

Poles meet or exceed NESC, ANSI, ASTM and RUS standards

EnduraPOLE is offered in a range of classes, colors and heights for distribution applications. The company states the poles meet or exceed NESC, ANSI, ASTM and RUS standards.

Chicago – October 19, 2026 -- Cboe Global Markets launched pre- and post-market trading in options on 24 single stocks and 5 ETFs on its Cboe Options Exchange (C1). Options on these names accounted for roughly 53% of average daily U.S.-listed options volume in 2026 through September.

Cboe opens two new sessions for equity and ETF options on C1

The pre-market session runs from 7:30 a.m. to 9:25 a.m. ET and the post-market session from 4:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. ET, Monday to Friday. C1 is currently the only U.S. options exchange offering pre- and post-market index options sessions. It is now extending extended-hours access to select single-stock and ETF options.

The covered underlyings include AAPL, AMZN, GOOG, GOOGL, META, MSFT, NVDA, TSLA and PLTR. The ETFs are SPY, QQQ, IWM, GLD and XLF. Cboe describes the group as including the Magnificent 10 stocks.

Las Vegas – October 19, 2026 -- Finastra launched StandbyX at Money 20/20, a cloud-enabled product that lets U.S. banks digitize standby letter of credit (SBLC) processing without deploying a full trade finance platform.

StandbyX targets regional and mid-sized banks still running manual SBLC workflows

Larger institutions typically handle SBLCs alongside broader trade finance operations on platforms such as Finastra's Trade Innovation. Many regional and mid-sized U.S. banks still rely on manual or semi-manual processes, which Finastra says create operational inefficiencies, increase risk and limit scalability.

Charlotte – October 19, 2026 -- PrePass launched the first phase of PrePass Intelligence, a fleet analytics offering that draws on bypass, safety, toll and vehicle GPS data and is available at no additional cost to customers of its Bypass and Toll solutions.

The release targets a data-fragmentation problem. Fleets know when a bypass occurs or a toll is charged, but working out what those events mean for the business typically requires analyzing large volumes of data across separate systems.

PrePass Intelligence quantifies bypass value from actual fleet activity

Fleet-specific calculations show driver time, fuel and estimated operating costs saved based on actual bypass activity rather than industry averages. Fleets can also see where adding eligible vehicles, transponders or the PrePass mobile app could generate additional savings.