NOVI, Mich.-Saturday 12 September 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

~ Lineage has broken ground on a 92,000-pallet-position automated cold storage at its strategically located Peterborough facility to create a South East UK Superhub ~

~ Lineage is also nearing completion of a 22,000-pallet-position expansion at its Northern Superhub at Heywood, further increasing capacity for customers ~

~ Superhub expansions will create more than 220 new jobs ~

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lineage Logistics, LLC (“Lineage” or the “Company”), the world’s largest and most innovative provider of temperature-controlled logistics solutions, today announced significant expansion plans in the United Kingdom at its Peterborough Superhub in the South East just 70 miles from Central London and at its Northern Superhub in Heywood near Manchester.

Lineage broke ground on a 92,000-pallet-position, fully automated expansion at its Peterborough location to form a strat ... Read more »

HOUSTON-Saturday 12 September 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Ascend Performance Materials announced today a price increase for intermediate materials.

The price increase takes effect immediately and includes the following terms:

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Funds from Western Union and Western Union Foundation to support immediate relief efforts focused on most urgent needs of displaced Moria residents

DENVER-Saturday 12 September 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Western Union, a global leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments, and the Western Union Foundation have announced the Foundation’s pledge of USD 250K in relief to support the immediate and long term recovery needs of refugees including the people displaced from Greece’s Moria Camp. More than 12,000 people have been evacuated from the Moria Camp on the island of Lesbos, which was destroyed by fires earlier this week.

The camp was the temporary home to migrants, refugees and asylum seekers from more than 70 different countries, among them elderly, pregnant women, children, and people with disabilities. With a fire devastating their only place of refuge, thousands are now without shelter and access to water and sa ... Read more »

BOSTON-Saturday 12 September 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

“State of Product Development & Hardware Design 2020” Report Finds That Companies Are Falling Short in Key Areas of Productivity and Innovation
Manufacturers Say their Top Priority for Improvement is Minimizing Time Spent on Non-Design Related Activities and Overhead
More than 80% of Product Development Professionals Have Trouble Finding or Accessing the Correct Version of Design Data
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- (NASDAQ: PTC) In a new industry survey of nearly 1,000 product development professionals from around the world, 80% of manufacturing companies surveyed say they need to minimize the time their engineering teams spend on non-design related activities, such as data management and administrative tasks. The State of Product Development & Hardware Design 2020 report explores the unprecedented challenges facing product development teams during the coronavirus pandemic and identifies significant op ... Read more »

USD $250K Commitment Will Help Meet Needs of Vulnerable International Students in Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the U.S. and the UK

DENVER-Saturday 12 September 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Western Union Foundation has announced a commitment of USD $250,000 to provide aid for international students struggling to fund tuition and basic needs such as healthcare, wellness, food, and housing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Western Union Foundation's grant will deliver support to up to 25 students in need, who will each receive USD $10,000. Priority will be given to refugees and migrants in Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom, some of the world's leading host countries of international students.

The Foundation will work with the Institute of International Education (IIE) to deliver the grants. IIE’s recent research on the impacts of COVID found that while colleges and unive ... Read more »

NEW YORK-Saturday 12 September 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Moody’s Analytics has won Best Decision Management Solution at the 2020 AI Breakthrough Awards. We won this award for the QUIQspread™ solution, our automated financial spreading tool, and for our CreditLens™ credit lifecycle management solution.

This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200910005314/en/

The QUIQspread solution uses machine learning to understand an institution's financial data spreading policies. The tool is built on our financial spreading expertise and expansive data resources—it’s trained on the financials of more than 22 million private firms, which helps immediately improve the accuracy of clients’ spreads. The more spreads it runs, the smarter it becomes and the less time and resources it requires. To ensure scalability, the QUIQspread tool was built as a software ... Read more »

LONDON-Saturday 12 September 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- In an attempt to spread hope and optimism during the coronavirus pandemic which has infected more than 27 million people and killed over 905,000 globally, UPF, an NGO in general consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations will convene its first virtual International Leadership Conference (ILC) on Sept. 11-13, 2020.

The ILC will host concurrent webinars in three, time-zone friendly clusters: the Americas, Asia Pacific, and the combined continents of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

“This year has seen dramatic disruptions, not only due to the COVID-19 pandemic but in geopolitics, the world economy, the media, religion and all levels of society,” said Universal Peace Federation Chairman Dr. Thomas G. Walsh.

“When the world’s leaders and citizens gather and listen to each other,” he added, “it’s easy to envis ... Read more »

INGELHEIM, Germany & NEW YORK -Friday 11 September 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

This collaboration combines Click Therapeutics’ specialty in developing efficacious and engaging digital therapeutics with Boehringer Ingelheim’s expertise in clinical development of treatments for neuropsychiatric diseases, furthering Boehringer Ingelheim’s commitment to exploring digital innovations to benefit patients with unmet medical needs
Together the companies will develop and commercialize a prescription-based digital therapeutic with the goal of helping schizophrenia patients achieve certain positive clinical outcomes
Boehringer Ingelheim will receive exclusive global rights to CT-155; Click Therapeutics will receive an upfront payment, development funding, and is eligible to receive additional clinical, regulatory and commercial milestones for a total deal value to Click Therapeutics of over $500 million, plus tiered royalties
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Boehringer ... Read more »