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UL Solutions Awards Microsoft Facilities UL Verified SPIRE Smart Building Ratings

The UL Verified SPIRE Smart Building Rating holistically measures building technology and performance. 

NORTHBROOK, Ill., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — UL Solutions, a global leader in applied safety science, today announced that multiple buildings across Microsoft’s corporate campuses in Redmond, Wash.; San Jose, Costa Rica; Dublin, Ireland; and Hyderabad, India have received UL Verified SPIRE Smart Building Ratings. The rating for each building is based on the SPIRE™ Smart Building Verified Assessment, a comprehensive evaluation for smart buildings that results in an overall UL Verified SPIRE Smart Building Rating.

Microsoft receives UL Verified SPIRE Smart Building Ratings for multiple buildings across Microsoft’s corporate campuses in Redmond, Wash.; San Jose, Costa Rica; Dublin, Ireland; and Hyderabad, India Pictured left-to-right: Emmanuel Daniel, director, Digital Transformation & Smart Buildings, Center of Innovation, Microsoft; Scott Weiskopf, director, Global Workplace Services, Center of Innovation, Microsoft; Jennifer Scanlon. president and CEO, UL Solutions Inc.; Weifang Zhou, EVP and president, Testing, Inspection and Certification, UL Solutions.

Each of the Microsoft buildings received a three-star UL Verified SPIRE Smart Building Rating — the highest performing program rating to date. In addition, Microsoft’s facilities in Dublin, Ireland; Hyderabad, India; and San Jose, Costa Rica, are the first buildings outside of the U.S. to achieve a SPIRE rating. These ratings were based on multiple factors, including:

  • Occupant engagement in building technology and experience innovation
  • A continuous cycle of planned technology upgrades
  • Physical security of critical networks and building assets
  • Actions to meet sustainability commitments
  • Flexible and robust reporting from connected building systems
  • Building lifecycle and operational management
  • Ongoing maintenance, support and awareness of IT network
  • Enterprise cybersecurity practices and policies

“By being the first ever to earn the UL Verified SPIRE Smart Building Rating in multiple countries, Microsoft has taken a significant step in validating and demonstrating smart building innovation,” said Sudhi Sinha, vice president of Ecosystems and Service Development group for UL Solutions. “Buildings are complex ecosystems to manage, often with multiple priorities. By assessing, validating and rating key building elements that take into consideration the entirety of a smart building, the UL Verified SPIRE Smart Building Rating supports Microsoft’s commitment to building performance and asset value. We thank them for putting their trust in UL Solutions to deliver on that promise.”

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Each facility awarded a UL Verified SPIRE Smart Building Rating received an in-depth, on-site and virtual audit of the building’s technologies and processes. UL Solutions focuses on six key, industry-driven building criteria categories that define the full scope of smart building performance, including power and energy, health and well-being, life and property safety, connectivity, cybersecurity, and sustainability.

The UL Verified SPIRE Smart Building Rating comes at a time when businesses are considering smart building needs in the face of new and evolving influences. These include the decarbonization of physical assets, alignment of business and building missions, experiences and productivity of occupants, concerns over cybersecurity, and the introduction of artificial intelligence, image perception, and robotics into the built environment. In addition to these issues, recent health concerns have brought new priorities to building operators looking for smart building systems to help keep occupants safe. SPIRE assessments provide insight into smart building performance and also help communicate a commitment to the health and well-being of its occupants.

Originally conceived as part of an overall initiative between the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and UL Solutions to share commercial, technical, and standardization insights to further their work in the ecosystem of smart buildings, the SPIRE Smart Building Program includes assessment criteria input from a TIA industry working group of more than 60 commercial real estate, real estate investment trust (REIT), asset management, technology, and telecommunications industry leaders.

About the SPIRE Smart Building Program
The SPIRE Smart Building Program, the world’s first comprehensive and objective assessment and rating program for smart buildings, was created in a partnership between the Telecommunications Industry Association and UL Solutions. The SPIRE Smart Building Program provides an assessment of connected technologies within buildings, delivering insights, benchmarks and roadmaps to help lower costs, mitigate risks, create brand differentiation and enhance overall asset value. SPIRE also provides a structured means to assess the outcomes of design for and adoption of smart building technologies.

About UL Solutions
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 100 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers’ product innovation and business growth. The UL Certification Marks serve as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers’ products and reflect an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.

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Hitachi Energy and H2 Green Steel partner to leverage electrification, digitalization, and hydrogen for green steel production

Memorandum of Understanding outlines collaboration to support the decarbonization of the steel industry by using disruptive technology and reduce carbon emissions

Zurich, Switzerland, July 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hitachi Energy today announces that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with H2 Green Steel to leverage electrification, digitalization, and hydrogen to support the decarbonization of the steel industry.

H2 Green Steel, a Swedish industrial start-up, is on a mission to accelerate the global steel industry’s greatest technological shift by eliminating almost all of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the steel production process. It is planning to build its first fossil-free steel plant in Boden, Sweden, alongside a giga scale electrolyzer plant for the production of green hydrogen.

The MoU outlines a collaboration which is built on three (3) pillars: 1) Hitachi Energy’s equity investment in H2 Green Steel; 2) products and services from Hitachi Energy that are needed to construct and improve the electrical infrastructure to power steel production and giga scale electrolyzer plants; 3) green steel to be used in the manufacturing of Hitachi Energy’s products, once H2 Green Steel starts production.

Over the past decade, expanding steel production has increased total energy demand and CO2 emissions1, which contributes to about eight percent of the world’s global industrial carbon emissions2.

Starting with the plant in Boden, H2 Green Steel will leverage Hitachi Energy’s capabilities to optimize customers’ value chain to plan, build, operate, and maintain the power infrastructure that includes IT and operational technology (OT). The steel production in Boden will use green hydrogen instead of coal in a fully integrated process using end-to-end digitalization, which reduces up to 95 percent CO2 emissions compared to traditional steelmaking. This will be equivalent to removing 3 million passenger cars per year from road3.

“Achieving carbon-neutrality globally requires efforts from all industries to speed up the energy transition through collaborations,” says Johan Söderström, Head of Europe, Middle East, and Africa at Hitachi Energy. “This collaboration with H2 Green Steel is a pioneering example of how we are working together and creating additional benefits for our customers. We are supporting H2 Green Steel’s electrification project and at the same time, we are able to secure green steel for our products, which is in line with our Purpose: Advancing a sustainable energy future for all,” he added.

“The partnership we have entered into with Hitachi Energy is further reinforced by an equity investment in H2 Green Steel. The partners we choose to work with need to share our values, to make a real commitment to live up to the Paris Agreement, and to work tightly together to leverage each other’s strengths. With Hitachi Energy we have that, as well as their long history, broad experience, and innovative offerings,” says Henrik Henriksson, CEO of H2 Green Steel.

1 IEA, Iron and Steel

2 McKinsey, Decarbonization challenge for steel (World Steel Organization)

3 Based on average 160 g CO2/km and average distance of 15,000 km

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About Hitachi Energy Ltd.

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader that is advancing a sustainable energy future for all. We serve customers in the utility, industry and infrastructure sectors with innovative solutions and services across the value chain. Together with customers and partners, we pioneer technologies and enable the digital transformation required to accelerate the energy transition towards a carbon-neutral future. We are advancing the world’s energy system to become more sustainable, flexible, and secure whilst balancing social, environmental, and economic value. Hitachi Energy has a proven track record and unparalleled installed base in more than 140 countries. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ around 38,000 people in 90 countries and generate business volumes of approximately $10 billion USD.

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About Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi drives Social Innovation Business, creating a sustainable society with data and technology. We will solve customers’ and society’s challenges with Lumada solutions leveraging IT, OT (Operational Technology) and products, under the business structure of Digital Systems & Services, Green Energy & Mobility, Connective Industries and Automotive Systems. Driven by green, digital, and innovation, we aim for growth through collaboration with our customers. The company’s consolidated revenues for fiscal year 2021 (ended March 31, 2022) totaled 10,264.6 billion yen ($84,136 million USD), with 853 consolidated subsidiaries and approximately 370,000 employees worldwide. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company’s website at https://www.hitachi.com.

About H2 Green Steel

H2 Green Steel (H2GS AB) was founded in 2020 with the ambition to accelerate the decarbonization of the steel industry, using green hydrogen. Steel, which is one of the world’s largest carbon dioxide emitters, is the company’s first business vertical. The founder and largest shareholder of H2 Green Steel is Vargas, which is also co-founder and one of the larger shareholders in Swedish battery maker Northvolt. H2 Green Steel is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with its first green steel plant under development in Boden, northern Sweden. www.h2greensteel.com

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‫ China Unicom وهواوي يطرحان 1000 MetaAAUs

بكين، 20 يوليو 2022 / PRNewswire / — أنشأت China Unicom Beijing و Huawei أكبر شبكة تجارية في العالم MetaAAU كجزء من مشروع نشر MetaAAUs في أكثر من 1000 موقع شبكة ريفية في ضواحي بكين. وقد شهدت هذه الشبكة الجديدة بالفعل زيادة بنسبة 38% في حركة المرور لكل موقع من خلال تحسين خدمات الجيل الخامس في المناطق الريفية. كما تقلل MetaAAUs التي تستخدمها هذه الشبكة من استهلاك الطاقة في الموقع بنسبة 5% تحت نفس حمل الشبكة مقارنة بالجيل السابق من وحدات الكمية المخصصة ( AAUs) ، مما يعزز كفاءة الطاقة في الشبكة. ويمثل نشرها خطوة مهمة نحو تحقيق أهداف القرية الخضراء والرقمية لمشروع 5G Capital .

MetaAAUs deployed on China Unicom Beijing's network

تعد MetaAAUs الجيل الثالث من 5G AAU التي طورتها Huawei . يستخدمون بنية مصفوفة الهوائيات الجديدة الكبيرة للغاية ( ELAA ) الخاصة بالشركة لمضاعفة حجم المصفوفات مقارنة بالجيل السابق من AAU . ينتج عن هذا الابتكار تغطية موسعة لأن حزم القنوات أضيق والطاقة أكثر تركيزًا. تعمل البنية الجديدة، جنبًا إلى جنب مع الخوارزميات المبتكرة، على تحسين أداء الشبكة مع تقليل استهلاك الطاقة. استفادت China Unicom Beijing ‘s من هذه التطورات للوصول إلى أهداف البناء 2022 5G للمدن الصغيرة والمناطق الريفية التي تواجه تحديات فريدة عندما يتعلق الأمر بالمسافة بين المواقع وتجربة مستخدم جيجابت والشبكات الخضراء. نشرت China Unicom Beijing وحدات MetaAAUs هذه في أكثر من 1000 موقع في يوليو في المدن والمناطق الريفية بما في ذلك مقاطعات شوني وهوايرو وبينجو في بكين. حققت وحدات MetaAAUs زيادة بنسبة 40% في مساحة التغطية، وزادت معدلات الوصلة الصاعدة والوصلة الهابطة التي يتصورها المستخدم بنسبة 10%، وخفضت استهلاك طاقة الشبكة بنسبة 5% مقارنة بالجيل السابق من وحدات الكميات المخصصة، مما حقق الأداء الأمثل للشبكة وكفاءة الطاقة. منذ نشرها، زادت حركة المستخدمين بنسبة 38% في مناطق تغطيتها وزادت قاعدة مستخدمي الناقل بنسبة 37%.

منذ أن بدأت جهود التسويق منذ ثلاث سنوات ، أصبحت شبكات الجيل الخامس متاحة بشكل متزايد خارج المناطق الحضرية. على سبيل المثال، في فويوكو، وهي قرية خارج بكين، يتوفر للمستخدمين العديد من قنوات البيع الأخرى بفضل البث المباشر عالي الدقة والنشر المباشر للصور على WeChat الممكّن بواسطة 5G . وقد أدى ذلك إلى زيادة المبيعات وتعزيز بناء “القرى الرقمية”. كما تظهر تطبيقات جديدة لـ 5G في مجالات مثل الزراعة الذكية والتعليم عن بعد والتطبيب عن بعد. تتطلب هذه السيناريوهات شبكات جيجابت ذات بصمات كربون أصغر تعمل بمستويات شوهدت في المناطق الحضرية.

قال فان ليكون، رئيس فريق العمل المشترك لبناء الجيل الخامس في China Unicom Beijing ومشاركته، إن شعارهم لهذا المسعى هو: “الجودة أولاً، الخبرة قبل كل شيء. لقد التزمنا لسنوات ببناء شبكة 5G الرائدة عالميًا والمتمحورة حول الخبرة. نحن مندهشون من مدى جودة أداء MetaAAU في أكثر من 1000 موقع على الشبكة التجارية، مما يعزز مكانها في استراتيجيتنا للقرية الرقمية. يمثل هذا الإنجاز معلمًا رئيسيًا في مشروع 5G Capital الخاص بنا، وهو دليل على سعينا المستمر لشبكة 5G عالية الجودة في كل مكان. لقد استكشفنا العديد من السيناريوهات بناءً على عرض النطاق الترددي العالي والتقنيات MIMO المبتكرة بشكل متكرر لضمان أفضل 5G وتجربة رقمية ممكنة لعملائنا”.

قال ريتشي بينغ، رئيس هواوي 5G Product Line، “MetaAAU هو أحد ابتكاراتنا الرئيسية. مع MetaAAU ، نحقق اختراقات كبيرة في أداء الشبكة وكفاءة الطاقة، ويعزى ذلك إلى استثمارنا القوي والابتكار المستمر في MIMO الضخم. يسعدنا التعاون مع China Unicom Beijing في مشروع MetaAAU في الألف موقع، ونفخر برؤية أن MetaAAU تحقق الأداء المطلوب عبر الشبكة بأكملها. نعتقد أن هذا يمكن أن يوفر مرجعًا مفيدًا للمشغلين العالميين في اختيار تقنيات MIMO الضخمة لسيناريوهات مختلفة”.

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‫˃˃ Seegene ˂˂ تمهد الطريق لاختبارات التشخيص الجزيئي للعيادات الفرعية من خلال اختبار جديد معتمد من الاتحاد الأوروبي بنظام تشغيل اوتوماتيكي بالكامل

سيول، كوريا الجنوبية، 20 يوليو / تموز 2022 / PRNewswire / — شركة  Seegene   (KQ096530) ، الشركة الرائدة في مجال التشخيص الجزيئي ( MDx ) في كوريا الجنوبية، حصلت على موافقة الاتحاد الأوروبي في فحص  Allplex™ SARS-CoV-2/FluA/FluB/RSV  المتوافق مع نظام تشغيلها “ AIOS ” الاوتوماتيكي بالكامل ( All-in-One System ). ومن المتوقع أن يساعد ذلك المستشفيات الصغيرة والعيادات المحلية ومراكز الصحة العامة على تشخيص كوفيد-19 والإنفلونزا  A  و B  والفيروس المخلوي التنفسي ( RSV ) بشكل فعال.

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الفحص المتلازمي لأربعة فيروسات تنفسية

يمكن لفحص  Allplex™ SARS-CoV-2/FluA/FluB/RSV  اكتشاف ستة أهداف مرتبطة بفيروسات الجهاز التنفسي الأربعة. وتشمل الأهداف ثلاث جينات مميزة لكوفيد-19 ( S  و RdRP  و N ) لتحديد الحالات الإيجابية بثقة حتى مع ظهور متحورات جديدة. كما يتضمن الاختبار ضو ابطي جودة لأخذ العينات المناسبة والتحقق من صحة الاختبار. يمكن للاختبار تقديم نتائج في غضون ساعتين، مما يجعله فعالًا من حيث الوقت ا يضا.

˃˃  AIOS ˂˂ أول نظام لاختبارات التشخيص الجزيئي MDx عالي الإنتاجية اوتوماتيكي بالكامل للاختبار المتلازمي

AIOS ، الذي سيتم إصداره في يوليو، يدعم سير عمل متكامل لاختبارات التشخيص الجزيئي بدون تدخل بشري – من استخلاص الحمض النووي إلى تحليل النتائج. نظرًا لأن  AIOS  هو نظام اوتوماتيكي بالكامل، يمكن تشغيله بسهولة من جميع افراد المختبر. كما أن  AIOS  صغير الحجم ويحتوي على أكثر من 30 فحصًا للاختبار المتلازمي لتعزيز الكفاءة والفائدة، على عكس حلول التقليدية الاخرى في السوق التي غالبا تكون أكبر حجما وتقوم بعدد أقل من الفحوصات.

AIOS  هو أول حل اوتوماتيكي بالكامل و “مجمع” في العالم يؤلف أدوات مستقلة وقابلة للفصل مطلوبة لاختبارات التشخيص الجزيئي، على عكس الحلول الأخرى التي تعمل كوحدة واحدة. وهذا يجعل  AIOS  مناسبًا للاستخدام والصيانة. ومن المتوقع أن تسمح هذه الميزات للمستشفيات الصغيرة والعيادات المحلية ومراكز الصحة العامة بدمج  AIOS  في سير عملها، والتي كانت محدودة من قبل بسبب نقص الأدوات أو المتخصصين لتشغيل حلول التشخيص الجزيئي.

عودة آمنة إلى الحياة الطبيعية مع “ In-life PCR’ ” من  Seegene

حذر أخصائيو الرعاية الصحية من عودة ظهور كوفيد-19 في وقت مبكر من الصيف – إلى جانب زيادة حالات الأنفلونزا والبرد – مع تراجع المناعة من لقاحات كوفيد-19 وتخفيف تدابير الوقاية من الفيروسات. واستجابة لهذه المخاوف، أطلقت  Seegene  مؤخرًا مبادرة “ In-life PCR” لتضمين اختبارات التشخيص الجزيئي في روتيننا اليومي من خلال خفض التكلفة و تسهيل الوصول للخدمة. ويهدف إلى الكشف عن الفيروسات خصوصا بين الأشخاص الذين لا تظهر عليهم أعراض وذلك للمساعدة في إنهاء تفشي كوفيد-19 وكذلك الحد من انتقال العدوى على نطاق واسع لمنع حدوث أوبئة جديدة. باستخدام Allplex™ SARS-CoV-2/FluA/FluB/RSV Assay و AIOS، يأمل Seegene في وضع الأساس للاختبار الجزيئي الروتيني.

*يشير الاختبار المتلازمي إلى عملية استهداف مسببات الأمراض المتعددة التي لها أعراض مماثلة في وقت واحد باستخدام اختبار واحد.

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Nyxoah to Release Second Quarter and First Half 2022 Financial Results on August 8, 2022

Nyxoah to Release Second Quarter and First Half 2022 Financial Results on August 8, 2022

Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium – July 19, 2022, 10:30pm CET / 4:30pm ET – Nyxoah SA (Euronext Brussels/Nasdaq: NYXH) (“Nyxoah” or the “Company”), a medical technology company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative solutions to treat Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), today announced that the Company will release financial results for the second quarter and first half of 2022 on Monday, August 8, 2022, after market close. Company management will host a conference call to discuss financial results that day beginning at 10:30pm CET / 4:30pm ET.

Investors interested in listening to the conference call may do so by registering for a unique personal PIN at the following link: https://register.vevent.com/register/BIfc3a52c9352e4e42958e9d816245b3b9. A live and archived webcast of the event will be available on the Company’s investor relations website at https://investors.nyxoah.com/events.

About Nyxoah
Nyxoah is a medical technology company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative solutions to treat Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). Nyxoah’s lead solution is the Genio® system, a patient-centered, leadless and battery-free hypoglossal neurostimulation therapy for OSA, the world’s most common sleep disordered breathing condition that is associated with increased mortality risk and cardiovascular comorbidities. Nyxoah is driven by the vision that OSA patients should enjoy restful nights and feel enabled to live their life to its fullest.

Following the successful completion of the BLAST OSA study, the Genio® system received its European CE Mark in 2019. Nyxoah completed two successful IPOs: on Euronext Brussels in September 2020 and NASDAQ in July 2021. Following the positive outcomes of the BETTER SLEEP study, Nyxoah received CE mark approval for the expansion of its therapeutic indications to Complete Concentric Collapse (CCC) patients, currently contraindicated in competitors’ therapy. Additionally, the Company is currently conducting the DREAM IDE pivotal study for FDA and US commercialization approval.

For more information, please visit http://www.nyxoah.com/.

Caution – CE marked since 2019. Investigational device in the United States. Limited by U.S. federal law to investigational use in the United States.

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Loïc Moreau, Chief Financial Officer
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Jeremy Feffer, VP IR and Corporate Communications
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China (Guangzhou) International Building Decoration Fair 2022 Concluded on July 11, Stabilizing Industrial Chains and Supply Chains

GUANGZHOU, China, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — China (Guangzhou) International Building Decoration Fair (“CBD Fair (Guangzhou)” and “the Fair”) was back from July 8 to 11, bringing together the design, decoration, and construction professionals to visit a vast exposure of the latest products and services. The 24th CBD Fair (Guangzhou) features top-notch companies from various segments of the home construction and decoration industry and continues to serve as the industry bellwether that plays an essential role in fueling and transforming the development of the sector.

CBD Fair 2022 built on its previous success to continue establishing itself as the world’s NO.1 trade fair in the industry. The largest offline expo of the year held in China saw a plethora of milestones in terms of the scale and number of attendees, hosting 80 high-end forums and welcoming over 120,000 professional visitors over the four days. With an exhibition hall spanning over 300,000 square meters, the mega trade show attracted more than 1,200 companies that showcased solutions, products, and services that cover the entire supply chain, driving the growth of China’s domestic market.

With holistic upgrades for its four main exhibition areas that provide innovative designs as well as customized, smart, and systematic solutions, CBD Fair raised the bar on safety, hygiene, and high-quality event experiences. The Fair also organized 30 designed-dedicated exhibitions, forums, and salons, creating a platform designed to share innovative ideas and foster creative exchange among designers.

Targeting the needs of exhibitors who are seeking to expand their distributors and franchisees networks, CBD Fair 2022 also launched a new initiative that invited around 20 top-tier marketplaces to bring more distributors and franchisees to the exhibition.

In addition to displaying the latest industry innovations and boosting business opportunities, CBD Fair 2022 is also instrumental in rejuvenating economic development in the post-pandemic world. The home construction and decoration industry is a pillar of China’s economic development given its industrial chains cover manufacturing, building, consumption, and circulation, accounting for a substantial proportion of China’s economic growth. The rapid and full recovery of the key industry players is critical for supply chain stability. The Fair helps China maintain a strong economic momentum by accelerating the work and production resumption of the businesses that are essential for the country’s economic rebound.

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