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AI data centers drive UPS recycling demand; Jin Lian Cheng targets 98% refining rate by 2 H27
58+ min ago (182+ words) Jin Lian Cheng (JLC) the lead-acid battery processing subsidiary under Ming Fu Group, Taiwan's largest end-of-life vehicle processing company, has recently entered the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) lead-acid battery recycling market for major semiconductor manufacturers in Taiwan by leveraging its…...
Column: US summit signals shift to trusted supply chains, reshaping global manufacturing partnerships
56+ min ago (110+ words) digitimes Column: US summit signals shift to trusted supply chains, reshaping global manufacturing partnerships Keep me signed in - Track financials & stock data of Taiwan tech. - Agibot claims 100% success rate in factory deployment as humanoid race shifts to real-world validation - SK…...
Storm Harvester AI prevents sewer blockages in Barwon Water network
11+ hour, 57+ min ago (353+ words) Storm Harvester and Barwon Water began working together in 2025 as part of a transition from reactive to proactive wastewater network management. The project focused on using a network of sewer level sensors, and machine-learning analysis, to generate proactive blockage alerts....
Kentucky Farmers Reject 26 Million Dollar Offer for Data Center
9+ hour, 45+ min ago (372+ words) Two Kentucky landowners rejected buyout offers totaling over $26 million from an anonymous technology company seeking to convert their multi-generational agricultural property near Maysville into a hyperscale data center campus. Landowners Ida Huddleston, 82, and her daughter Delsia Bare refused to sell…...
AI-powered manufacturing takes center stage at western China trade fair
7+ hour, 40+ min ago (462+ words) Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered manufacturing took center stage during the four-day Eighth Western China International Fair for Investment and Trade, which concluded Sunday in Chongqing, a major industrial hub in southwest China. Western China is rapidly transforming its traditional industrial…...
Key advantages underpin growth of Malaysia's semiconductor industry
11+ hour, 42+ min ago (726+ words) The Indonesian and Malaysian governments have approved the transfer of production-sharing contracts for these assets from Petronas and Eni to SEARAH. Following the approvals, the companies are completing internal procedures to finalise the transaction. The new venture is expected to…...
John Henry vs the steam drill: Will the robots win?
10+ hour, 12+ min ago (651+ words) For over 100 years, American elementary schoolteachers have used this, and other similar tall tale stories, as hooks to interest kids learning to read. Like Aesop's fables, the tales generally have some kind of moral. What's the moral here? People are…...
Catalyx Hires Manufacturing Executive to Expand Automation
22+ hour, 27+ min ago (155+ words) NEWTOWN, PA " Catalyx appointed manufacturing executive Brent Best as senior vice president of its Automation Solutions Group, as the company expands its automation and AI-driven manufacturing services for life sciences and other regulated industries. Best joins Catalyx after serving as…...
Sortera uses physical AI to double capacity in a Tennessee sorting facility
12+ hour, 1+ min ago (260+ words) By The Robot Report Staff | May 24, 2026 Sortera creates recycled fractions from existing scrap streams, enabling the domestic production of metals for manufacturing. | Source: Sortera Technologies Sortera Technologies Inc. announced that its second state-of-the-art processing facility in Lebanon, Tenn. , is moving…...
Kentucky Farmers Reject 26 Million Dollar Data Center Land Offers
9+ hour, 48+ min ago (264+ words) A Kentucky mother and daughter have refused to sell their multi-generational family farmland in Mason County for a proposed hyperscale data center campus, declining buyout offers that exceeded 26 million dollars. Ida Huddleston, 82, and her daughter Delsia Bare rejected the bids…...