Supply Chain

NetActuate Launches 110-Appliance Media Marketplace on Global Edge

Amsterdam – September 15, 2026 -- NetActuate has launched a curated marketplace of more than 110 media, streaming, transcode, and delivery appliances for one-click deployment across its global edge anycast network, spanning over 45 locations worldwide.

NetActuate charges zero listing fees or revenue share on marketplace appliances

Customers pay only for the compute an appliance runs on. Commercial software follows a bring-your-own-license model, with vendor keys applied at first boot and never stored, while open source appliances require no license at all.

Tecnau, Sitma to Debut AutoSetup, CutReady at PRINTING United 2026

North Andover, Mass. – September 15, 2026 -- Tecnau and Sitma will present new print finishing and packaging automation technology at PRINTING United Expo 2026, running September 23-25 in Las Vegas, under the banner "From Print to Profit."

Revolution 50 AutoSetup eliminates manual changeover delays

Tecnau's Revolution 50 AutoSetup will demonstrate automatic format changes between applications without operator intervention, a capability designed to remove traditional finishing setup bottlenecks and increase throughput for print providers running diverse job mixes.

Provident Sells 161,408-SF Arlington Logistics Center After 1-Month Lease-Up

Dallas – September 15, 2026 -- Provident Industrial has sold A20 Logistics Center, a 161,408-square-foot industrial building in Arlington, Texas, to an institutional buyer, closing out a project that leased half its space within one month of delivery.

Provident completed construction in January 2026, twelve months after breaking ground

The developer broke ground on the project in January 2025 in partnership with Humphreys Fund IV, managed by Humphreys Capital. Located at 4601 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, just south of I-20 next to Arlington Municipal Airport, the site sits roughly 30 minutes from downtown Dallas, downtown Fort Worth, and DFW International Airport.

Elbit Systems Rebrands U.S. Unit as Twenty-Six Defense

Fort Worth, Texas – September 15, 2026 -- Elbit Systems Ltd.'s U.S. operating segment will now operate as Twenty-Six Defense, a rebranding that reinforces the Israeli defense contractor's long-term commitment to domestic manufacturing amid U.S. government pressure to expand industrial capacity.

New entity employs 3,300 workers with three decades of military support

Twenty-Six Defense, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, employs 3,300 Americans who have supported the U.S. military for more than 30 years. The company remains a reportable operating segment of Elbit Systems Ltd. and continues to operate under a Special Security Agreement, a structure required for foreign-owned defense contractors handling classified U.S. government work.

Integrity Partners With Dallas-Based Brave Insurance Group

Dallas – September 15, 2026 -- Integrity, LLC has partnered with Brave Insurance Group, a Dallas-based independent marketing organization founded by Blake Naylor specializing in final expense insurance. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Integrity adds a final expense specialist to its distribution network

Brave Insurance Group serves clients nationwide with final expense insurance solutions and will now gain access to Integrity's technology platform, including IntegrityCONNECT, a business growth engine offering demographic-segmented leads, instant health and life quoting, and application processing. The agency will also integrate Ask Integrity, Integrity's AI-powered and voice-activated digital assistant that delivers coverage recommendations and lifecycle reminders through its CRM.

SweetNight Mattresses Launch at Nebraska Furniture Mart Stores

Wilmington – September 15, 2026 -- SweetNight, a global sleep solutions company, has placed its mattresses on the sales floor of Nebraska Furniture Mart (NFM), one of the largest home furnishings retailers in the United States, marking its expansion beyond e-commerce and social commerce into brick-and-mortar retail.

Products have been stocked at NFM since mid-May 2026

The rollout includes SweetNight's CoolNest® Series, a cooling sleep collection built on its proprietary CoolNest® System combining airflow technology and ergonomic support, alongside the Twilight Hybrid Mattress, one of the company's top-performing hybrid models.

GCMP Launches Open Season for 57 Bcf Texas Gas Storage Hub

Houston – September 15, 2026 -- Gulf Coast Midstream Partners (GCMP) has launched a non-binding open season for firm natural gas storage and wheeling service at its Nash Storage Hub in Fort Bend County, Texas, running through October 23, 2026.

Nash Storage Hub secures permits for 57 Bcf of salt cavern capacity

The Railroad Commission of Texas has authorized GCMP to develop up to five underground salt caverns on the Nash Dome, totaling approximately 57 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of working gas storage capacity. The initial phase will consist of two salt caverns delivering 23 Bcf of combined working gas storage, 0.9 Bcf/d of injection capacity, and 1.5 Bcf/d of withdrawal capacity.

EU Procurement Reform Pushes Germany to End Lowest-Price Drug Deals

Berlin – September 15, 2026 -- The European Commission is redrawing public procurement rules to treat supply security as a strategic asset, pressuring Germany to overhaul how statutory health insurers award pharmaceutical rebate contracts.

Brussels Moves to Rank Quality and Resilience Above Lowest Price

The Commission's draft directive would require public tenders to be awarded based on the best price-quality ratio rather than price alone, explicitly allowing supply security and resilience to factor into contract awards. The proposal also permits splitting large contracts into smaller lots to reduce dependency on single suppliers and diversify supply chains. For strategically sensitive procurement categories, the draft opens the door to preferential treatment for European or trade-aligned suppliers.

BPI Urges EU to Make Drug Supply Security Binding in PPA

Berlin – – September 15, 2026 -- The European Commission today unveiled the EU Public Procurement Act (PPA), a comprehensive proposal to modernize European procurement law, drawing an immediate response from Germany's pharmaceutical industry association BPI.

BPI demands supply security as binding procurement criterion

Dr. Kai Joachimsen, Chief Executive of the BPI (Bundesverband der Pharmazeutischen Industrie), said the European Commission must make supply security a mandatory guideline for pharmaceutical procurement. He stated the goal must be supply sovereignty, achieved through strong production capacities in Europe and diversified, resilient supply chains.

FHC Shanghai 2026 to Draw 180,000 Buyers, 3,000 Exhibitors

Shanghai – – September 15, 2026 -- FHC Shanghai 2026 will open its doors from November 10-12 at the new Shanghai International Expo Centre, spanning 200,000 square meters and bringing together more than 3,000 global exhibitors and over 180,000 trade buyers.

Event scale expands with 500 foreign exhibitors across 50 international pavilions

The three-day trade show will host more than 500 foreign exhibitors organized into over 50 international pavilions, covering 15 core sectors including meat, seafood, snack food and beverages, dairy, confectionery and chocolate, foodservice supply chains, condiments and oils, coffee and tea, bakery, food processing and packaging, ready meals, canned goods, machinery, hot-pot ingredients, infant and children's nutrition, and food-medicine crossover products. The format allows procurement executives to benchmark suppliers across categories within a single three-day visit.