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Gislaved, Sweden – September 07, 2026 -- Axjo Group, a Swedish provider of recycled polymer packaging solutions, has acquired French company Eco-Tourets, converting the firm's Villeneuve-sur-Yonne site into a logistics and sales hub for the French market.

Villeneuve-sur-Yonne site becomes Axjo's local hub near Paris

The site, located south-east of Paris, will initially support faster deliveries and closer customer collaboration for Axjo Group in France. The move follows Axjo's earlier establishment of Axjo GmbH in Cologne, Germany, this year, as the Group pursues stronger local presence across Europe.

Paris – September 07, 2026 -- Annual investment in electricity grids must rise roughly 50% to approximately $600 billion by 2030, up from about $400 billion currently, according to the International Energy Agency, as global demand from electrified transport, industry, buildings and data centers pushes power systems toward their limits.

The figures were presented at the CIGRE 2026 Paris Session, which drew more than 15,000 experts from 100 countries and 330 exhibitors to address the buildout of next-generation power grids.

Permitting delays in Europe and the US lag China and India by years

Permitting a very-high-voltage transmission line takes approximately 1.5 years in China and around three years in India, according to IEA data cited at the event. Comparable projects in Europe and the United States typically require eight to ten years or more, creating a bottleneck for grid expansion at the pace the energy transition demands.

Detroit – September 07, 2026 -- The Automotive Hall of Fame has selected Mark Reuss, president of General Motors, as winner of the 2026 Industry Leader Award in the OEM category, sponsored by Lear Corporation.

Lear CEO Ray Scott will present the award on September 29, 2026

The award ceremony will take place during the Automotive News Global Congress at The Department at Hudson's in Detroit, Michigan. Ray Scott, president and CEO of Lear Corporation and a 2021 AHF Distinguished Service Citation recipient, will present the honor to Reuss. Following the presentation, Reuss and Scott will join KC Crain, president and CEO of Crain Communications and an AHF board member, for a fireside chat covering automotive leadership, industry transformation, and innovation.

Stamford, Conn. – September 7, 2026 -- Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) confirmed that President and CEO Chris Winfrey will address investors at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, September 9, 2026.

Winfrey's remarks are scheduled for 3:45 p.m. PT (6:45 p.m. ET)

The appearance places Charter's leadership in front of institutional investors and analysts at one of the technology sector's most closely watched investor conferences, offering a platform to update the market on broadband, mobile and video strategy.

Charter will webcast the session live via its investor relations site

A live webcast will be available on Charter's investor relations website, with an archived version posted afterward for those unable to attend in real time.

Vancouver – September 7, 2026 -- Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. will host an Investor Day webcast on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, starting at 9:00am Eastern Time, giving shareholders direct access to executive strategy and asset-level technical detail.

Wheaton's CEO and executive team will lead the session alongside partner technical presentations

Haytham Hodaly, President and Chief Executive Officer, will speak alongside the Wheaton Executive team. Representatives from Wheaton's mining partners will deliver technical presentations on certain streaming assets, offering investors operational detail beyond corporate commentary.

Halifax, NS – September 07, 2026 -- Maritime Launch Services Inc. (CBOE: MAXQ) (OTCQB: MAXQF) and Isar Aerospace have pushed back the deadline for completing key work under their facilities usage agreement for Spaceport Nova Scotia by two weeks, from September 1, 2026, to September 15, 2026.

Companies extend deadline to finish statement of work and programmatic milestones

The extension gives both parties additional time to complete the statement of work and certain programmatic milestones tied to the agreement, which governs Isar Aerospace's dedicated launch complex for its Spectrum launch vehicle at the Nova Scotia site. No other key terms of the underlying agreement, first announced on July 7, 2026, were changed.

Arlington, Va. – – September 07, 2026 -- An independent review by the American Diabetes Association's Audit and Governance Committee (AGC) has concluded that five attendees removed from the 2026 Scientific Sessions in New Orleans on June 5 were expelled for disruptive conduct, not for the content of materials they were distributing.

Committee interviewed 28 witnesses over nearly three months

The AGC, composed of volunteer investigators drawn from clinicians, people with diabetes, healthcare providers and business leaders aligned with the ADA, conducted its inquiry over a near three-month period. Investigators interviewed 28 individuals with firsthand knowledge of the June 5 events, including the five attendees who were removed, and reviewed videos, emails, text messages, news articles and published editorials.

London – September 07, 2026 -- Global clean energy investment reached a record $2.1 trillion in 2025, yet global greenhouse gas emissions are merely plateauing rather than falling, according to the Energy Transitions Commission's (ETC) Energy Transition Monitor 2026. The world has already breached 1.5°C of global heating and remains on track for roughly 2.5°C.

Renewables supplied 99% of new electricity generation growth in 2025

Coal-fired and oil-fired generation both contracted last year as global renewable capacity nearly doubled since 2022, putting it on track to double again by 2030 -- still around 900 GW short of the tripling pledge made at COP28. Because electricity accounts for only a fifth of total final energy use, this surge covered just 40% of the rise in global energy demand, with fossil fuels supplying the remainder as data centres, cooling needs and heavy industry pushed overall consumption higher.

Menlo Park – September 7, 2026 -- GRAIL, Inc. (Nasdaq: GRAL) will present at Morgan Stanley's 24th Annual Global Healthcare Conference in New York on Monday, September 14, at 11:30 a.m. ET.

GRAIL management to address investors at flagship healthcare investment event

The company's leadership team will speak directly to institutional investors and analysts at the closely watched conference, which draws major players across the healthcare and life sciences sector.

Live and archived webcast to be available via GRAIL's investor relations site

A live webcast of the presentation, along with a replay, will be accessible through the investor relations section of GRAIL's website. The archived version will remain available for at least 30 days following the event.

Redwood City, Calif. – September 07, 2026 -- The Most Important Commute, a new book by Zum Founder and CEO Ritu Narayan, has reached #1 on Amazon's bestseller list in Education Administration, spotlighting student transportation as a core driver of educational access.

Book argues school bus reliability directly shapes classroom outcomes for 26 million U.S. students

Narayan draws on more than a decade building Zum and working with school districts, families, drivers and transportation leaders to argue that the journey to school functions as an education issue, not just a logistics problem. Approximately 26 million students rely on school buses daily, making student mobility one of the largest mass mobility systems in the United States, one that Narayan says has long operated with fragmented technology, limited visibility and outdated infrastructure.