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Uzbekistan Scales Solar Energy Project With Battery Storage and Grid Links
Uzbekistan Scales Solar Energy Project With Battery Storage and Grid Links Uzbekistan’s renewable energy ambitions are no longer confined to targets on paper or pilot projects tucked away from the realities of national grid operations. With a new US$30 million financing package agreed between the As...
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WEMAG Secures €220m to Accelerate Grid Upgrades in Northern Germany
WEMAG Secures €220m to Accelerate Grid Upgrades in Northern Germany Germany’s energy transition has never been short on ambition, but it’s the infrastructure underneath it all that decides whether progress will be smooth or painful. That’s why a new €220 million financing agreement between the Europ...
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Egypt’s Obelisk Solar Project Secures US$150m EIB Financing
Egypt’s Obelisk Solar Project Secures US$150m EIB Financing Egypt’s energy transition has moved beyond ambition and into execution, with the Obelisk solar photovoltaic project in Qena Governorate emerging as one of the most consequential clean power developments on the African continent. Backe...
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Kazakhstan’s Almaty Railway Bypass Secures US$300m Financing
Kazakhstan’s Almaty Railway Bypass Secures US$300m Financing Kazakhstan has spent the past decade positioning itself as a practical bridge between East and West, but bridges only matter if they don’t choke at the entrance. Freight volumes don’t wait politely at city limits, and when trains are force...
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Leasys and EIB Back EU Zero-Emission Fleets with €600m Finance
Leasys and EIB Back EU Zero-Emission Fleets with €600m Finance Europe’s clean-mobility transition is often discussed in the language of targets, mandates and long-term ambition. But in practice, decarbonising road transport comes down to something far more practical: who can finance the vehicles, de...
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DriveWell Fleet Brings Full Telematics to Commercial Motor Insurance
DriveWell Fleet Brings Full Telematics to Commercial Motor Insurance Commercial fleets keep the modern economy moving, yet the insurance industry that underwrites them has often had to price risk with only partial visibility. Underwriters have traditionally relied on claims history, vehicle type, ro...
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CESAR’s 700,000th System Signals a New Era for Machinery Security
CESAR’s 700,000th System Signals a New Era for Machinery Security Machinery theft isn’t a headline-grabbing crime in the way that cash robberies or high-profile cyberattacks might be, but across construction, agriculture, and plant hire it’s a relentless, costly drain. When a machine disappears, the...
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Intertraffic Awards Highlight Innovations That Deliver Real-World Impact
Intertraffic Awards Highlight Innovations That Deliver Real-World Impact The shortlist for the Intertraffic Awards 2026 has landed, and it reads like a snapshot of where mobility is heading next. Fifteen finalists have been named across three categories, highlighting innovations that aim to cut emis...
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Rethinking Foreign Policy – The Case for Tech Diplomacy
Rethinking Foreign Policy – The Case for Tech Diplomacy The drivers of economic growth, innovation, and societal change are no longer solely wealthy nation-states and global institutional actors, but increasingly the technology companies. The so-called “Magnificent Seven”—Nvidia, Microsoft, Ap...
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Yanmar Innovation to Power a Sustainable Agriculture Future
Yanmar Innovation to Power a Sustainable Agriculture Future The world’s food system is being asked to do something close to impossible: produce more, waste less, cut emissions, conserve land and water, and somehow stay profitable for people whose margins are already wafer-thin. All while the workfor...
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Liebherr Power Deals Deliver Momentum To Fleet Upgrades In 2026
Liebherr Power Deals Deliver Momentum To Fleet Upgrades In 2026 The construction equipment market doesn’t usually do sentimentality. Fleet owners make decisions with spreadsheets, utilisation charts, and workshop schedules, not wish lists. Still, there’s something fitting about starting a new year w...
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Choosing the Right Car Finance
Choosing the Right Car Finance Car ownership in the UK has steadily increased over time, but with prices climbing and technology evolving, more people are turning to finance options over paying upfront. The right deal can make driving your dream ride affordable, but the wrong one can leave you stuck...
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Offshore Asia Pacific Summit Explores FPS Trends in Asia Pacific
Offshore Asia Pacific Summit Explores FPS Trends in Asia Pacific At a time when much of the global offshore oil and gas sector is treading water, the Asia Pacific region is moving decisively in the opposite direction. Investment pipelines remain active, national energy strategies are being recalibra...
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Connectivity is Redefining Construction Delivery
Connectivity is Redefining Construction Delivery Construction has always been a business of coordination. Machines, people, materials, and time must align precisely for projects to succeed. Yet even the most carefully planned programmes have long been vulnerable to delays that emerged once work bega...
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Rethinking Screen Media for Today’s Aggregates Operations
Rethinking Screen Media for Today’s Aggregates Operations In mineral processing, efficiency is rarely decided by a single machine. It is shaped by the interaction between crushers, conveyors, feeders and, critically, the vibrating screen. While the screen itself often draws attention as the me...
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Designing Safer Access at Height for Modern Construction
Designing Safer Access at Height for Modern Construction Working at height remains one of the most persistent risk factors across global construction, infrastructure maintenance, logistics, and industrial operations. Despite decades of regulatory reform and advances in machine design, falls and entr...
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AEye OPTIS is Redefining Long Range Infrastructure Awareness
AEye OPTIS is Redefining Long Range Infrastructure Awareness Across the global construction, transport and infrastructure sectors, perception technology is quietly becoming mission critical. What began as a race to enable autonomous vehicles is now reshaping how roads, railways, mines and secure sit...
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Physical AI and Humanoid Robots Moving From Theory to the Jobsite
Physical AI and Humanoid Robots Moving From Theory to the Jobsite The conversation around artificial intelligence has spent much of the past decade focused on software. Algorithms that can see, predict, recommend and optimise have transformed offices, trading floors and design studios. Yet, for indu...
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Electric Excavators Finding Their Place in Harsh Quarry Environments
Electric Excavators Finding Their Place in Harsh Quarry Environments Across the global construction and materials sector, electrification is no longer confined to urban job sites, indoor demolition, or tightly controlled municipal projects. It is edging into places long considered off limits for bat...
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The Materials Project and the Rise of AI Driven Materials Science
The Materials Project and the Rise of AI Driven Materials Science In construction, transport, energy and advanced manufacturing, materials innovation increasingly sets the pace of progress. From longer lasting batteries and low carbon cement alternatives to advanced semiconductors and high performan...
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Blackline Safety Advances the Role of PPE in Data-Driven Worksite Safety
Blackline Safety Advances the Role of PPE in Data-Driven Worksite Safety Across construction, infrastructure, transport and heavy industry, worker safety has quietly become a digital systems challenge rather than a compliance checklist. As worksites grow larger, more distributed and more automated,...
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Rethinking Pickup Truck Storage for the Infrastructure Economy
Rethinking Pickup Truck Storage for the Infrastructure Economy The global construction and infrastructure ecosystem is quietly changing its relationship with the humble pickup truck. Once seen primarily as a means of transport, the truck is now increasingly treated as a mobile asset, a rolling exten...
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Turning Excavated Soil into Green Infrastructure Assets
Turning Excavated Soil into Green Infrastructure Assets Across Europe’s cities, soil has quietly become one of the most overlooked resources in the construction and infrastructure ecosystem. Vast quantities are excavated every year to make way for housing, transport corridors, utilities and regenera...
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UESI and ASCE’s Expanding Influence on Underground Infrastructure
UESI and ASCE’s Expanding Influence on Underground Infrastructure Across the world’s expanding cities, much of the most critical infrastructure remains hidden from view. Water, wastewater, energy and telecommunications networks are buried beneath streets, rivers and dense urban districts, quietly su...
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From Protection to Prediction with Intelligent Infrastructure Coatings
From Protection to Prediction with Intelligent Infrastructure Coatings Across the global construction and infrastructure landscape, the ability to understand how assets behave in real time has become a strategic concern rather than a technical curiosity. Bridges, tunnels, industrial facilities, vehi...
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Saudi Arabia’s Solar Supply Chain Takes a Strategic Leap Forward
Saudi Arabia’s Solar Supply Chain Takes a Strategic Leap Forward The formal incorporation of Nextpower Arabia, a joint venture between U.S.-based Nextpower and Riyadh-headquartered Abunayyan Holding, marks a significant moment for the Middle East and North Africa’s renewable energy ecosystem. More t...
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Clinker Free Cement Steps into the Structural Mainstream
Clinker Free Cement Steps into the Structural Mainstream For decades, the construction sector has wrestled with a fundamental contradiction. Concrete remains the backbone of global infrastructure, yet its primary binder, clinker, is responsible for a significant share of industrial carbon emissions...
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Cemex Sets a Benchmark for Climate Transparency in Construction
Cemex Sets a Benchmark for Climate Transparency in Construction The global construction sector sits at the centre of the climate conversation, not by choice but by consequence. Cement alone is responsible for a significant share of industrial carbon emissions worldwide, making producers a focal poin...
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Automating Nautical Charts and Maritime Safety Digital Workflows
Automating Nautical Charts and Maritime Safety Digital Workflows The quiet digitisation of maritime chart production rarely makes headlines, yet it underpins everything from naval readiness and port construction to offshore energy and global trade. When a national hydrographic authority changes how...
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Insta360 Redefines the AI Webcam for Professional Work at CES
Insta360 Redefines the AI Webcam for Professional Work at CES For much of the past decade, webcams have lagged behind the realities of modern work. While construction, infrastructure, and industrial technology sectors have embraced digital twins, remote inspections, and hybrid collaboration, the hum...
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Top 7 Mining Software Solutions for Geological Modeling and Mine Planning (2026)
Top 7 Mining Software Solutions for Geological Modeling and Mine Planning (2026) Selecting mine planning and geological modeling software affects operational efficiency for years. The market offers solutions ranging from enterprise platforms with decades of development to integrated alternatives tar...
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The New Blueprint for Sustainable Mining
The New Blueprint for Sustainable Mining Mining and quarrying have long been synonymous with environmental disruption, from gaping open pits and scarred landscapes to polluted waterways and deforestation. In the past, the focus was overwhelmingly on extraction at all costs, with little thought for w...
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EBRD Financing Unlocks Heavy Lift Infrastructure Across Central Asia
EBRD Financing Unlocks Heavy Lift Infrastructure Across Central Asia Across Central Asia, a quiet but decisive shift is under way. Wind farms are rising across open steppe, ports and rail corridors are being upgraded, and the logistics chains that once served only extractive industries are being rep...
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EU Backs Rail Upgrade in Montenegro to Bolster Balkan Connectivity
EU Backs Rail Upgrade in Montenegro to Bolster Balkan Connectivity The European Union has committed a substantial €175.6 million package to reconstruct 39 kilometres of the Bar-Golubovci railway line, a critical segment of Rail Route 4 within the extended Trans-European Transport Network core corrid...
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UK Ports and Marine Facilities Enter a New Phase of Safety and Accountability
UK Ports and Marine Facilities Enter a New Phase of Safety and Accountability Ports sit at the heart of the global economy. Every container unloaded, every tanker berthed and every ferry movement connects national transport networks to international supply chains. When port operations are disrupted...
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Hawaii Builds a Data Driven Road Network With Bentley Blyncsy
Hawaii Builds a Data Driven Road Network With Bentley Blyncsy Across the global road sector, one challenge refuses to go away. Governments spend billions building and upgrading highways, yet most of that infrastructure is still managed with delayed, fragmented and often outdated information. Enginee...
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The Things Stack and the $2bn Rise of Low Power IoT at CES 2026
The Things Stack and the $2bn Rise of Low Power IoT at CES 2026 Across the technology world, few milestones carry the quiet weight of real economic proof. At CES 2026 in Las Vegas, The Things Industries crossed one of those rare thresholds. The company revealed that organisations running low power I...
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Afari and Geely Drive a New Era of AI Native Autonomous Mobility
Afari and Geely Drive a New Era of AI Native Autonomous Mobility Afari and Geely chose the Consumer Electronics Show 2026 to unveil what they describe as a major step change in intelligent driving. The joint announcement of G-ASD, short for Geely Afari Smart Driving, placed the two companies firmly...
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QwikOS Launches Universal Operating System for Humanoid Robotics
QwikOS Launches Universal Operating System for Humanoid Robotics QwikOS has arrived at a pivotal moment for humanoid robotics, unveiling what it calls the world’s first universal operating system and app store for humanoid robots. The platform aims to bridge a long standing divide in the industry, n...
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MeiG Smart Unveils 100 TOPS Modules AI Powerhouses at CES
MeiG Smart Unveils 100 TOPS Modules AI Powerhouses at CES The four-day CES 2026 event in Las Vegas wrapped up recently, cementing its reputation as the premier showcase for technological advancement at the dawn of the year. Defined by the mantra “AI Everywhere,” the exhibition highlighte...
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AI Driven Protection for Firefighters and First Responders
AI Driven Protection for Firefighters and First Responders Recognition at the world’s most influential technology showcase carries weight, particularly when it highlights solutions with real world impact. At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, Oshkosh Corporation was named a winner of the CES Pic...
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Faraday Future Sets Course for FX Super One and Robotics Growth at CES
Faraday Future Sets Course for FX Super One and Robotics Growth at CES Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. entered 2026 with a clear message to investors, partners, and the wider mobility sector. The California-based company is no longer speaking only about vehicle launches or factory readiness...
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MATTER and Niron Magnetics Bring Variable Flux Motors to CES
MATTER and Niron Magnetics Bring Variable Flux Motors to CES Electric mobility has spent the better part of a decade wrestling with a contradiction. Performance expectations continue to rise, yet the materials underpinning many electric drivetrains remain environmentally costly and geopolitically fr...
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Motive Unveils Edge AI Dashcam Plus For Fleet Safety at CES
Motive Unveils Edge AI Dashcam Plus For Fleet Safety at CES Road safety has reached a point where incremental upgrades are no longer enough. Across mature and emerging markets alike, fleets are contending with rising traffic density, distracted driving, skills shortages, tighter compliance regimes,...
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How to Prepare Your Old Pickup Truck for Cross-Country Travel
How to Prepare Your Old Pickup Truck for Cross-Country Travel Though Americans have always been car-obsessed, it is the pickup truck that truly captures the heart and defines their deepest vehicular loyalty. About half of American adults drive pickup trucks. For many owners, these trucks aren’t disp...
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Hyundai Mobis and Boston Dynamics Announce Global Robotics Supply Chain
Hyundai Mobis and Boston Dynamics Announce Global Robotics Supply Chain At CES 2026 in Las Vegas, Hyundai Mobis confirmed a strategic collaboration framework with Boston Dynamics that places the company firmly inside the rapidly evolving humanoid robotics supply chain. Under the agreement, Hyundai M...
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Innoviz and Vueron to Fast Track LiDAR AI for Roads and Autonomous Mobility
Innoviz and Vueron to Fast Track LiDAR AI for Roads and Autonomous Mobility The rapid evolution of autonomous driving and smart infrastructure has placed unprecedented pressure on perception systems to mature faster, perform better, and scale reliably. Against that backdrop, Innoviz Technologies Ltd...
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Hexagon Robotics and Microsoft Building the Autonomous Factory Floor
Hexagon Robotics and Microsoft Building the Autonomous Factory Floor In a move that underscores the accelerating convergence of cloud computing, artificial intelligence and advanced robotics, Hexagon Robotics has entered into a strategic partnership with Microsoft to push humanoid robots closer to l...
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Inside ENGINEAI’s Vision for Robotics and Embodied Intelligence at CES
Inside ENGINEAI’s Vision for Robotics and Embodied Intelligence at CES CES has long served as a barometer for technological momentum, separating speculative ideas from solutions that are ready to face real-world scrutiny. At CES 2026, that distinction became especially clear in the field of robotics...
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PrimeBot Reimagines Personal Robotics at CES
PrimeBot Reimagines Personal Robotics at CES Personal robotics has long promised to step out of laboratories and factory floors, yet for decades that future remained just out of reach. Industrial automation flourished, service robots found niche roles, but individual ownership stayed largely theoret...
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RICTOR X4 Opens the Door to Personal Flight at CES 2026
RICTOR X4 Opens the Door to Personal Flight at CES 2026 The global technology stage at CES 2026 has rarely seen a launch that so deliberately redraws the boundaries of personal aviation. Amid the usual parade of concept vehicles and future-facing prototypes, RICTOR introduced something markedly diff...
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Autocrypt delivers Automotive CIS and Vehicle Cybersecurity to CES
Autocrypt delivers Automotive CIS and Vehicle Cybersecurity to CES Vehicle cybersecurity has moved from a specialist concern to a board level priority. As vehicles become rolling computers, increasingly connected, continuously updated and infused with artificial intelligence, the attack surface has...
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Solid State Batteries Move Onsite as ProLogium Targets Construction at CES
Solid State Batteries Move Onsite as ProLogium Targets Construction at CES Solid-state batteries have long promised a step change in safety, performance, and reliability, yet large-scale industrial adoption has remained elusive. That picture is now beginning to change. ProLogium Technology has annou...
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Kubota Demonstrates the Future of Smart Agriculture at CES
Kubota Demonstrates the Future of Smart Agriculture at CES Kubota used its media briefing at CES 2026 to restate a long held ambition that now feels increasingly tangible. The company’s vision of becoming an Essentials Innovator for Supporting Life is no longer a philosophical statement but a practi...
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Siemens Brings the Industrial Metaverse to Life with Digital Twin Composer
Siemens Brings the Industrial Metaverse to Life with Digital Twin Composer Industrial digitalisation has reached a point where disconnected models, static simulations and siloed data are no longer enough. Manufacturers, infrastructure owners and operators are facing a perfect storm of rising complex...
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Top Time Tracking Apps With Live Location for US Field Crews in 2026
Top Time Tracking Apps With Live Location for US Field Crews in 2026 In the fast-paced world of fieldwork, tracking time and ensuring accurate payroll can be a daunting task. With workers spread across multiple job sites, managing their hours manually or using unreliable time tracking tools often le...
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Caterpillar shows of Cat AI Assistant at CES
Caterpillar shows of Cat AI Assistant at CES After more than a century of engineering progress, Caterpillar Inc. has reached another inflection point with the launch of Cat AI Assistant. Rather than treating artificial intelligence as a bolt-on feature, the company has woven it directly into the way...
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Bobcat is Rewriting the Rules of Compact Equipment at CES
Bobcat is Rewriting the Rules of Compact Equipment at CES The construction sector rarely changes direction overnight. Progress tends to arrive in measured steps, shaped by hard lessons learned on real jobsites. Yet every so often, a moment comes along that signals a genuine shift in thinking. At CES...
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Segway speeds around CES with Smarter E-Bikes and E-Dirt Bikes
Segway speeds around CES with Smarter E-Bikes and E-Dirt Bikes Segway has arrived at CES with a clear message. Electric mobility is no longer about novelty or niche appeal. It is about refinement, accessibility, and performance delivered through intelligent technology. At CES in Las Vegas, the compa...
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Garmin Expands Automotive HPC Vision with Snapdragon Elite at CES
Garmin Expands Automotive HPC Vision with Snapdragon Elite at CES Garmin’s presence at CES 2026 marks a decisive step in the evolution of software defined vehicles, with the company unveiling a significant expansion of its long running automotive technology collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies....
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