ATLANTA – October 28, 2026 -- One in four supply chain leaders wish they had chosen a different automation path, and 94% say switching providers would be prohibitively expensive, according to a survey of 250 North American decision-makers released by warehouse robotics provider Exotec. Most buyers are therefore locked into their chosen system for 10 to 15 years.

HELSINKI – October 28, 2026 -- UPM-Kymmene reported a third-quarter comparable EBIT of €131 million from continuing operations, down 8% from €142 million a year earlier. Operating cash flow nearly doubled to €420 million from €218 million, driven by working capital measures.

Wilmington – October 28, 2026 -- The Chemours Company (NYSE: CC) has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.0875 per share on its common stock for the fourth quarter of 2026.

Board of Directors approves Q4 payout on common stock

The Chemours Board of Directors approved the dividend, which applies to the company's common stock. The company announced the declaration on October 27, 2026.

CHICAGO – October 28, 2026 -- Machine Tool Bids (MTB) will begin closing 61 lots of CNC machining, fabrication, EDM and laser cutting equipment at 11:00 AM Central Time on Wednesday, October 28, in its Open CNC & Fabrication Auction.

Berlin – October 27, 2026 -- Germany's federal employers' association for the chemical industry (BAVC) will bring Labor Minister Alexander Schweitzer, IGBCE union chief Michael Vassiliadis and FDP leader Wolfgang Kubicki together on November 4, 2026 to debate how the chemical-pharmaceutical sector can regain competitiveness.

NEW YORK – October 27, 2026 -- Allegion US will demonstrate real-time wireless locks, Apple Wallet and Google Wallet credentials, and new property-management integrations at ISC East 2026 (booth #601), November 4–5 at the Javits Center.

STOCKHOLM – October 27, 2026 -- ASSA ABLOY lifted third-quarter EBITA by 12% to SEK 7,612 M (6,815) on net sales of SEK 40,771 M (38,146), with the operating margin reaching a record 18.7% (17.9). Operating income (EBIT) rose 11% to SEK 7,102 M, the first time the group has exceeded SEK 7bn in a quarter.

Boston – October 27, 2026 -- Demand for key critical minerals will reach roughly 120% to 250% of forecast supply through 2040, and industrial companies are underestimating their exposure, according to a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) report. BCG's proprietary model covers rare earths, graphite, copper and lithium. The report, "Why Critical Mineral Shortages Are a CEO Issue," says three blind spots in standard risk metrics hide where the danger sits.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- An MQTT message is only a topic plus a payload, so a usable historian record needs four additions: stable equipment identity, typed measurements, a trustworthy timestamp and a schema that survives device and site growth. Engineers should settle these before configuring ingestion into TDengine TSDB Enterprise. Skipping that step can produce technically successful writes that create tables that are hard to query, compare or maintain.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- A historian export of tags and timestamps is rarely a training-ready dataset for Industrial AI, according to TDengine guidance that tells engineers to establish what each measurement means, when it happened, which asset produced it and whether it is reliable before data reaches an external model-training workflow.