Product Launch

Richmond, Va. – October 15, 2026 -- Owens & Minor has launched ARMOR-FLEX* Sterilization Wrap, a heavyweight wrap developed in-house and made in Lexington, N.C., that the company says is stronger, more flexible and more bacteria-resistant than traditional heavyweight wraps without adding weight.

The product joins the Halyard® portfolio and targets sterility breaches that can compromise patient safety and cause delays in the operating room.

ASSURE-DRY technology targets slow-drying, hard-to-handle heavyweight wraps

Owens & Minor says many heavyweight wraps rely on bulk for protection. That added weight can make them harder to work with, slower to dry and more prone to incidents that may affect sterility. ARMOR-FLEX* instead combines patent-pending ASSURE-DRY* moisture management technology with proprietary manufacturing techniques.

Bloomington, Minn. – October 15, 2026 -- Toro will show its first dedicated stand-on blower, the AeroMaster, which the company says delivers up to 30% more airflow than competitors at 8,100 effective CFM. The company will also show a redesigned GrandStand HDM+ stand-on mower at a lower price at Equip Expo in Louisville, Kentucky, October 20-23.

Toro is aiming both platforms at landscape contractors who need to do more with fewer operators and are under pressure from rising operating costs.

AeroMaster turbine blower targets wet debris and large cleanups

The AeroMaster is built on Toro's turbine technology. The company says its 8,100 effective CFM moves wet, stuck-on debris, which suits spring and fall cleanups and post-storm work. The 30% airflow advantage is a manufacturer claim, marked with an asterisk in the release; the source gives no substantiation.

Cambridge – October 15, 2026 -- Bulgin, an Infinite Electronics company, has added hybrid circular connectors to its 6000 Series Buccaneer range, combining two 16 A power contacts and 3 A signal contacts in one IP68-rated housing.

Hybrid design removes the need for separate power and signal cable routing

The 6000 Series Hybrid Buccaneer is aimed at smaller devices such as test and measurement equipment, sensors and control systems. Integrating both connection types in a single interface cuts space requirements and eliminates separate cable routing for power and signal.

Two central power contacts are rated at 16 A. Designers can choose from three configurations with two, four or six 3 A signal contacts.

Mark Berry, VP of Product & Portfolio Management at Infinite Electronics, said the company integrated high-current power and signal channels into one sealed interface to deliver a smaller footprint without compromising performance.

Houston – October 15, 2026 -- Kreative Media, a Houston-headquartered digital marketing agency with locations across Texas, launched the Kreative Velocity System, a framework that runs paid media, social, search and website work from one shared data foundation.

Four engines split the system across paid, social, search and web

The methodology operates through four interconnected engines:

Denver – October 15, 2026 -- CFi Solutions has launched gridl by CFi, a single system that gives ag retailers, grain elevators and manufacturers one platform for managing customers and daily operations, and it comes at no extra charge for dealers who finance with CFi.

gridl links customer records to quotes, orders, inventory, invoicing and grain storage

The platform connects customer and farm records to the quotes, orders, inventory, invoicing and grain storage behind each sale. CFi financing is integrated into the same system, so dealers can offer financing as part of every sale.

CFi describes the product as a replacement for fragmented setups. Many ag businesses currently run separate systems for customers, inventory, orders and financing, and fill the gaps with spreadsheets.

San Jose – October 15, 2026 -- LITEON Technology (2301) is debuting a 2.6MW Enterprise Cooling Distribution Unit (CDU) and a full 800 VDC power stack for AI factories at the OCP Global Summit 2026, running October 12-15 in San Jose, California.

LITEON debuts 2.6MW CDU from investment partner DCX Liquid Cooling Systems

The Enterprise CDU comes from DCX Liquid Cooling Systems, a strategic investment partner of LITEON. It delivers up to 2.6MW of heat transfer capacity and an approach temperature of 3°C. An N+1 redundant pump design is built in for high-density AI and HPC deployments. The unit also carries a next-generation HMI and an integrated software layer for at-a-glance visibility into key system parameters.

LITEON is also showing an 800 VDC Power Shelf integrated with a Battery Backup Unit (BBU).

Atlanta – October 15, 2026 -- Clarion Communications LLC, which says it and its predecessor companies have completed more than 30 acquisitions in over 20 years, is pursuing further tuck-in deals in the UCaaS and managed service provider (MSP) market while its IPitomy Communications LLC subsidiary adds AI-powered Advanced Call Management (ACM) to its proprietary UCaaS platform.

IPitomy bundles call control, intelligence and caller identity in ACM

ACM combines three capability sets across the call lifecycle in a single platform. Call Control covers inbound and outbound call management, consistent routing, centralized number management and flexible call handling.

Call Intelligence adds call recording, searchable transcripts and greater visibility into customer interactions and calling activity. Caller Identity covers branded calling, caller ID management and tools that support number reputation.

Dublin – October 15, 2026 -- BrowserStack has made BrowserStack Load Testing generally available, letting teams run up to 1 million API virtual users and 1,000 browser virtual users per test to check web app performance before holiday and festive sales.

The product runs real browsers and API traffic in a single test. BrowserStack argues that server-only load tests no longer show the full picture, because modern web apps build much of each page inside the visitor's browser. A site can pass a server-side test while customers wait on a checkout page that will not load.

Adobe Analytics put Black Friday 2025 peak spending at $12.5 million per minute

The cost of a stalled checkout rises on the busiest shopping days. According to Adobe Analytics, U.S. shoppers spent $12.5 million online every minute during peak hours on Black Friday 2025.

San Jose – October 15, 2026 -- xFusion is showing a 155 kW liquid-cooled rack, cold plates rated above 4,000 watts per chip and a prototype 800V high-voltage DC power supply for up to 1.2 MW at the 2026 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, which runs October 12–15 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center (Booth A33).

The company is targeting power density, which it describes as the main constraint on AI data center scaling. Single-chip power consumption is trending toward 3,000 watts and beyond, while rack-level density is moving from hundreds of kilowatts toward the megawatt class.

San Francisco – October 15, 2026 -- Mesh, a crypto payments network, has launched Link Chat, an AI-powered feature in Mesh Link that lets users start financial actions with a natural-language request such as "Deposit 50 USDC into my account." The capability is live and rolling out to partners.

Mesh plans to extend Link Chat across its product stack, including payments and additional transaction types.

Forrester data shows 31% of consumers use conversational AI for finance questions

Nearly one in three consumers (31%) across the United States, United Kingdom and Canada regularly use conversational AI to ask personal-finance questions and compare financial products, according to Forrester. Nearly a quarter (24%) of those users do so through tools outside their bank's app.

Completing a financial action still requires the right accounts, assets and payment rails to work together behind the scenes, the company said.