Manufacturing

Noteworthy Industry Profiles


CPI Card Group Acquires Arroweye Solutions for $45M

CPI Card Group Inc. (Nasdaq: PMTS) has acquired Arroweye Solutions Inc. for a purchase price of $45.55 million. Arroweye is a provider of digitally-driven on-demand payment card solutions targeted at the U.S. market. CPI Card Group is a payments technology company providing a comprehensive range of payment cards and related digital solutions. The acquisition is...

Viega Expands Valve Portfolio with New Products

Viega North America has added globe, wafer check and butterfly valves to its MegaPress and ProPress product lines. The new valves integrate with Broomfield-based Viega’s existing press technology, which accommodates various materials and applications. Viega’s press technology allows customers to use one tool to work with PEX in residential settings, copper and carbon steel in...

Lignetics Group Launches Sustainable Alternative for the Plastics Industry

Lignetics Group has introduced NaturFil, a wood flour concentrate designed to serve as a greener alternative to traditional fillers in the plastics industry. Engineered from responsibly sourced wood residuals and utilizing patent-pending technology, NaturFil aims to set a new standard in sustainable manufacturing. This product is targeted at manufacturers seeking cost-effective and sustainable substitutes for...

CPI Card Group Introduces Feature for Digital Wallet Integration

CPI Card Group Inc. (Nasdaq: PMTS), a Littleton payments technology company, has launched Web Push Provisioning (WPP), allowing card issuers to connect payment cards with cardholders’ digital wallets more efficiently. With WPP, card issuers can issue payment credentials to a cardholder’s digital wallet through a simple button click on their website. This functionality simplifies the...

Viega North America Appoints New Chief Customer Officer

Viega LLC has named Todd Schwarzenbach as its new chief customer officer, effective April 7. In this role, he will work on creating a unified strategy for the customer organization and ensuring team alignment while promoting a customer-focused approach to growth. “Todd is a people-first leader who believes that success is built on strong relationships,...

Quantinuum Selected by DARPA for Quantum Benchmarking Initiative

Quantinuum has been chosen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to participate in the first stage of the agency’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI). This initiative seeks to evaluate the feasibility of developing an industrially useful quantum computer by 2033. Successful performers in the QBI will progress through stages A, B and C. Stage...

Quantinuum’s Software is First to Achieve NIST Validation

Quantinuum’s Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) software, Quantum Origin, has received validation from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This makes Quantum Origin the first software QRNG to achieve this validation, marking it as an important tool for federal agencies transitioning to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) as mandated by National Security Memorandum 10. Quantum...

Quantinuum and Partners Achieve Quantum Computing Milestone

A joint research team from Broomfield-based Quantinuum, JPMorganChase, Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin published a paper in Nature, marking a significant milestone in the application of quantum computing. The researchers successfully demonstrated a potential application of a quantum computer by generating Certified Quantum Randomness. This achievement...

Ball Corp. Divests Aluminum Cup Assets, Forms Joint Venture

Ball Corp. (NYSE: BALL) closed a 49:51 joint venture with Ayna.AI (Ayna), aimed at accelerating the development of the Aluminum Cup category. The new joint venture, named Oasis Venture Holdings LLC, will include the Aluminum Cup business, its commercial teams, supply chain, manufacturing teams and the plant in Rome, Ga., which will serve as its...

Quantinuum Collaborates with NVIDIA on Quantum Research Center

Quantinuum has been selected as a founding collaborator for the NVIDIA Accelerated Quantum Research Center (NVAQC), where operations are set to begin later this year. The collaboration aims to develop quantum solutions and applications to address significant global challenges. The NVAQC will utilize NVIDIA’s CUDA-Q platform and a NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 supercomputer alongside Quantinuum’s System...

Honeywell to Acquire Sundyne for $2.16B

Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON) has agreed to acquire Sundyne LLC from private equity firm Warburg Pincus for $2.16 billion in an all-cash transaction. This acquisition, representing approximately 14.5x 2024 EBITDA on a tax-adjusted basis, aims to enhance Honeywell’s Energy and Sustainability Solutions business segment. With approximately 1,000 employees and a significant recurring aftermarket revenue, Sundyne is...