Operational Excellence

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 2, 2025 - Swiss communications provider rubmedia has commissioned a compact, highly automated Heidelberg digital print line at its new site in Köniz near Bern, combining a Jetfire 50 inkjet system, a Versafire LV toner press and integrated workflow software to industrialize personalized short-run production.

Digital production line anchors new Köniz facility

With around 35 employees, rubmedia positions itself as a media house focused on creative communication solutions for service providers, industry, associations and political customers. As part of an internal transformation project linked to its relocation, the company rethought its production strategy and installed a tightly integrated digital line designed for efficiency, quality and automation.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 2, 2025 - Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (HEIDELBERG) is reporting a significantly more profitable first half of its 2025/2026 financial year, with revenue growth, a doubling of EBITDA and improving cash flow underscoring the impact of its restructuring program and strategic focus on packaging, label and digital print.

Stronger top line and sharply improved margins

In the six months from April 1 to September 30, 2025, HEIDELBERG grew revenue to €985 million, around 8% above the prior-year period's €915 million. Europe and Asia were the main regional growth engines, while the second quarter contributed €519 million, up from €466 million in the first quarter despite negative currency effects of roughly €12 million versus the prior-year quarter.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 2, 2025 - Roche has secured FDA 510(k) clearance with a CLIA waiver and CE IVDR certification for its first point-of-care test to diagnose Bordetella infections, providing primary care and emergency clinicians with PCR-accurate results in just 15 minutes to help control whooping cough and related diseases.

Fast, PCR-accurate diagnosis at the point of care

Running on the cobas® liat system, Roche's new assay delivers lab-quality PCR results in GP offices and emergency rooms within a standard consultation. The 15-minute turnaround allows physicians to move from suspicion to definitive diagnosis immediately, supporting timely antibiotic prescribing that can prevent severe complications and reduce onward transmission.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 2, 2025 - Royal Philips is expanding commercial availability of its LumiGuide 3D Device Guidance solution across Europe and the United States, positioning its real-time, AI-enabled, light-based navigation technology as a new benchmark for radiation-free image-guided therapy in complex endovascular procedures.

Real-time 3D navigation without continuous X-ray

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 2, 2025 - A series of FDA findings at Novo Nordisk's Bloomington, Indiana, fill/finish facility is forcing biotechs to rethink their commercial manufacturing strategies, with Regeneron and Scholar Rock now accelerating alternative capacity plans to break regulatory logjams linked to the ex-Catalent site.

FDA scrutiny at Novo's Bloomington site triggers CRLs

The Bloomington plant, one of three former Catalent sites Novo acquired for $11 billion to support surging GLP-1 demand, has become a bottleneck rather than a release valve for some of its biopharma customers. As a CDMO hub, the facility provided fill/finish services for a range of partners, but repeated quality issues have resulted in an Official Action Indicated (OAI) classification and multiple complete response letters (CRLs) from the FDA.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 2, 2025 - Microbial fermentation is moving back to the center of biologics manufacturing strategy, and contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs) like AGC Biologics are under pressure to turn the platform's greatest strength-speed-into a reproducible, industrial-scale advantage.

Microbial fermentation's resurgence - and its speed problem

Microbial systems have long been valued for fast, efficient production of biologics, and they are now seeing renewed interest for a new generation of therapies. Yet the same speed that makes microbial fermentation attractive also makes it unforgiving. Typical production runs last around 48 hours, leaving very little time to diagnose and correct process deviations once a run is underway.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 2, 2025 - With energy prices volatile and brand owners under pressure to cut carbon and costs, Sidel's EvoBLOW Laser technology is emerging as a strategic lever for beverage, food, home and personal care producers looking to modernize PET blowing operations. Following its breakthrough launch at drinktec and one year of industrial use in the field, President & CEO Pietro Cassani is outlining how the system's performance, simplicity and lightweighting potential are reshaping expectations for next-generation blowing equipment.

Laser-based blowing targets efficiency and TCO head-on

For producers operating high-speed PET lines, the shift from traditional halogen to laser-based blowing is more than a technical upgrade. It directly affects line efficiency, energy consumption and total cost of ownership across increasingly complex packaging portfolios.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 28, 2025 - Hyundai Auto Canada has appointed long-time executive Ken Maisonville as chief operating officer (COO), reinforcing its focus on operational excellence and customer experience as the brand navigates intense competition, electrification and shifting consumer expectations in the Canadian automotive market.

New COO Role Unifies Sales, Marketing and Aftersales

In his newly created role, Maisonville will oversee Sales, Marketing and Aftersales, bringing these core commercial functions under a single leadership umbrella. The move is designed to accelerate decision-making and align strategies across the full customer journey, from brand awareness and lead generation to purchase, ownership and long-term retention.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 28, 2025 - Beyless, a Seoul-based mobility software technology company, has secured Automotive SPICE (ASPICE) Capability Level 2 (CL2) certification for its vehicle system software, underscoring its readiness to meet the stringent quality expectations of global automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers.

ASPICE CL2 as a Quality Benchmark for Automotive Software

ASPICE CL2 is an international process assessment model that validates whether software development is carried out in a systematic and consistent way across the entire lifecycle. For automotive OEMs and Tier-1s, ASPICE has effectively become a de-facto prerequisite for collaboration, especially in complex domains such as in-vehicle infotainment and connected mobility platforms.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 25, 2025 - Royal Philips has launched Image Management 15, the next generation of its Philips Vue PACS platform, featuring a zero-footprint web diagnostic viewer that brings full radiology workstation capabilities into a standard web browser. Positioned as a cornerstone of Philips' cloud-enabled imaging informatics strategy, the solution is designed to help health systems modernize remote reading, streamline AI integration, and simplify IT across distributed radiology networks.

Anywhere, anytime diagnostic reading via the browser

The new web-based diagnostic viewer is built to address one of radiology's most persistent pain points: lost clinical time due to slow performance and fragmented remote reading setups. Delivering high-performance server-side rendering and workflow automation, it allows radiologists to access advanced clinical tools securely through a browser, without local installation.