October 20, 2022

132nd Canton Fair: Machinery and Hardware Products to Support Infrastructure Development

GUANGZHOU, China, Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The 132nd China Import and Export Fair, also known as Canton Fair, is highlighting a wide range of machinery equipment, hardware, and tool products from top Chinese enterprises in its virtual exhibition that kicked off on October 15. This exhibition gathered about 500 high-quality mechanical enterprises and exhibited over 17,000 large-scale machinery equipment, providing more choices for buyers of infrastructure projects around the world.

“As a leading international trade platform, the Canton Fair aims to promote trade cooperation between China and the rest of the world and support the accelerated development of infrastructure through a comprehensive exhibition of products and solutions,” said Liu Quandong, Deputy Director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Canton Fair.

KITSEN Technologies Co., Ltd. is a leading low-carbon intelligent construction formwork manufacturer with multiple international certifications, 4 patents for invention in China, 52 utility model patents and over 100 design patents. Its 1+N construction formwork products provide a variety of solutions for green and low-carbon construction in the basement, tunnel, tower building, high-rise, road, bridge, port, ship, and plane.

Fujian Qunfeng Machinery Co., Ltd. is highlighting its “Supersonic” series intelligent block machines, an advanced product with a remote mobile control platform that can realize highly automated production of concrete products when deployed with a fully automatic assembly line. The “Supersonic,” which uses integrated electro-hydraulic technology, has a higher production capacity, higher efficiency, and greater adaptability than regular block machines.

The special vibration and distribution system of the equipment can meet the users’ needs for producing different products, including colored permeable pavers, standard bricks, (load-bearing, ordinary or split) blocks, grass-planting bricks, as well as roadside stones, slope embankment bricks, interlocking pavers, hydraulic blocks, and more.

Positec Technology (China) Co., Ltd. is featuring its brushless rotary hammer (22V, 22mm) with improved efficiency and productivity. The brushless motor coupled with the 19.5mm-large cylinder, delivers smooth and superior performance with the best drilling range of 6-10mm that can be applied in various scenarios.

The product also has a double protection mechanism with G-TEC innovative smart anti-twisting technology. When hard objects such as rebar are encountered during drilling, the angular acceleration sensor on the control circuit board will detects large-angle deflection and the tool stops immediately to avoid twisting. The electronic clutch tripping technology has an intelligent chip controlled sensor for large current, adding on to the safety assurances.

Infrastructure equipment comes in many different types, as technology constantly develops towards low-carbon energy saving, intelligent automation, and meeting current needs in sustainable construction.

For more innovative infrastructure products and solutions at Canton Fair, please register via https://www.cantonfair.org.cn/en-US/register/index?utm_source=rwyx#/foreign-emailor contact caiyiyi@cantonfair.org.cn.

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October 20, 2022October 21, 2022

Covid-19: WHO says virus still an international health emergency

GENEVA— The World Health Organization (WHO) said that COVID-19 is still a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the WHO’s highest alert level.

The announcement came although the number of weekly deaths is almost at its lowest level since the pandemic began.

The WHO’s International Health Regulations Emergency Committee said after its quarterly assessment meeting last week that despite a decline in severe cases of COVID-19, and the falling number of weekly deaths, deaths from COVID-19 nevertheless remain high compared with other respiratory viruses.

It also warned of COVID-19-related complications and post-COVID-19 conditions, with the full impact of these still not completely understood. The outbreak could also evolve during the upcoming winter season in the Northern Hemisphere, the committee said.

Meanwhile, the current gaps in global surveillance of COVID-19 have hindered early identification and evaluation of the virus’ evolution. With the virus expected to continue evolving, the committee said that the genetic and antigenic characteristics of future variants cannot yet be reliably predicted. Evolving variants may pose challenges to current vaccines and therapeutics, the committee warned.

“Given the above considerations, the committee concurred that continued coordination of the international response is necessary,” and considered that “the situation remains dynamic and requires frequent reassessments, and that the termination of the PHEIC, when considered feasible, should be implemented as safely as possible.”

The committee recommended that there should be three key priorities in the future: strengthening surveillance and achieving vaccination targets for at risk-groups; continuing to increase access to affordable therapeutics; and strengthening pandemic preparedness planning, while continuing to protect the most at-risk groups.

Source: Nam News Network

October 20, 2022October 21, 2022

Global leaders commit $2.6b to eradicate polio

BERLIN— World leaders have thrown more weight behind the campaign to end polio by confirming $2.6b funding toward the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s (GPEI) 2022-2026 Strategy.

This timely commitment happened on Tuesday at the World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany.

The funds will bolster global efforts to eradicate polio, a disabling and life-threatening disease caused by the poliovirus.

The plan is to vaccinate as many as 370 million children annually over the next five years and continue disease surveillance across 50 countries.

“No place is safe until polio has been eradicated everywhere,” said Svenja Schulze, Germany’s federal minister for economic co-operation and development on the last day of the three-day World Health Summit in Germany’s capital.

“As long as the virus still exists somewhere in the world, it can spread – including in our own country [Germany],” she warned in a statement released by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

“We now have a realistic chance to eradicate polio completely, and we want to jointly seize that chance.”

Germany is providing €35m for the cause and plans to inject €37m next year.

Currently, the wild poliovirus is endemic in two countries: Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to the WHO.

But after just six cases were recorded in 2021, 29 cases have been registered so far in 2022. These included “a small number of new detections in southeast Africa linked to a strain originating in Pakistan”.

In 2006, the WHO declared Uganda polio-free following the ‘Kick polio out of Africa’ campaign that resulted in zero indigenous polio cases.

But in August 2021, Uganda’s health ministry confirmed a polio outbreak after results from tests conducted at the Uganda Virus Research Institute confirmed a circulating cVDPV2. The virus detected was found to have genetic linkage with a cVDPV2 strain reported in Sudan.

Five months later (in January 2022), the health ministry launched a mass vaccination campaign against polio targetting children under five. It was themed ‘Keep Uganda Polio Free’.

Meanwhile, on top of the funding for GPEI announced in Berlin, a group of more than 3,000 influential scientists, physicians, and public health experts from around the world released a declaration endorsing the 2022-2026 Strategy.

They urged donors to stay committed to eradication and ensure the initiative is fully funded.

Source: Nam News Network

October 20, 2022October 21, 2022

Africa Lags Behind Rest of World in COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage

The World Health Organization warns Africa’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has stagnated, putting the continent’s 1.2 billion people at higher risk for this ever-evolving virus.

New numbers from the WHO show a significant decline in new vaccinations, with immunization rates dropping by more than half between July and September.

At this rate, WHO officials say most countries in Africa will miss the global goal of vaccinating 70 percent of their populations by the end of the year.

Despite this setback, WHO says modest progress is being made towards vaccinating high-risk population groups, particularly the elderly. In other good news, the agency reports over the past 12 weeks, Africa has recorded the lowest case numbers since the start of the pandemic, adding that deaths remain low across the region.

WHO regional director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, says in many ways, Africa is a victim of its own success.

“It is important to note that vaccine supply is no longer problematic; countries are now receiving about double the number of doses per 100 people than at the end of last year…Unfortunately, as vaccines have helped avert serious COVID-19 illness, hospitalization and death, people are less fearful, and so also less willing to get vaccinated,” said Moeti.

Several African countries have defied the statistics and racked up vaccination

successes. WHO reports Liberia now has joined Mauritius and Seychelles in reaching more than 70 percent coverage and Rwanda is on target to join them soon.

Liberia’s Health Minister, Wilhelmina Jallah, explains how her country achieved this milestone.

“The magic bullet was decentralization, making sure each county ran their own vaccination campaign and the participation of all the health care workers and the vaccinators and the support from all of the partners…And making sure that the vaccines were available. That is key to success,” said Jallah.

Aurelia Nguyen is special adviser to GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance. She says GAVI so far has supplied 670 million doses to Africa. She says vaccines will continue to be sent to Africa for as long as the pandemic continues and poses a threat.

“We have enough doses to go around. We are especially determined to make sure the vulnerable groups are protected. And so elderly health care workers, primary series but also boosters,” Nguyen said. “And this is the only way that we are going to be able to ensure that lives are saved and that the health systems hold strong if we have a new variant or a surge.”

More than 250,000 people in Africa have lost their lives to COVID-19. WHO officials say high vaccination coverage in populations reduces the spread of the virus, helps prevent new variants from emerging and saves lives.

Source: Voice of America

October 20, 2022

Nippon Express Europe Establishes Two New Subsidiaries in Morocco

– Move Aimed at Strengthening Automotive Industry-related Logistics Services –

TOKYO, Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Nippon Express Europe GmbH (hereinafter “NX Europe”), a group company of NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS, INC., has spun off two of its existing business locations in Morocco — the Morocco Branch and the Tanger Med Logistics Center — into subsidiary companies, newly establishing Nippon Express Morocco SARLAU this past July and Nippon Express Morocco Free Zone SARLAU in August. An opening ceremony was held in Tangier, northern Morocco, on September 26 to commemorate the founding of these two companies.

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– Purpose of spin-off
The Nippon Express Group’s business development in Morocco began in December 2017 in Casablanca with the creation of the Morocco Branch, which was followed by the opening of the Tanger Med Logistics Center in the Port of Tanger Med in June 2019 to provide air/ocean freight forwarding and logistics services.

Morocco is Africa’s second-largest automobile producer after South Africa, serving at the same time as a complementary country to Europe. It has for some time seen high demand for import/export, procurement, and sales logistics centered on the automobile industry, and an increasing number of automobile and automotive parts manufacturers are setting up plants in the country.

NX Europe has incorporated two of its business locations to further expand its own operations and reinforce its business infrastructure in support of its customers’ operations in Morocco. Making full use of its accumulated sales and operational know-how, the Nippon Express Group will accelerate its efforts on behalf of the automotive industry, positioned as a priority industry in the Group’s business plan.

The Nippon Express Group will be further expanding its logistics capabilities in Morocco and across the rest of Africa, both of which are expected to enjoy continuing growth, and aggressively moving into the African market by leveraging its global network and accrued advanced logistics know-how, all the while contributing to the development of its customers’ business activities.

More details: https://www.nipponexpress-holdings.com/en/press/2022/17-Oct-22-1.html

Nippon Express website: https://www.nipponexpress.com/

Nippon Express Group’s official LinkedIn account: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nippon-express-group/

October 20, 2022

LeddarTech leva tecnologia de software de fusão e percepção de dados brutos para eventos automotivos em Motor City Detroit em novembro

QUEBEC CITY, Oct. 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A LeddarTech®, líder global no fornecimento da tecnologia de software ADAS e AD mais flexível, robusta e precisa, tem o prazer de anunciar sua participação em dois eventos automotivos importantes em Detroit, Michigan, onde fará uma demonstração da sua solução única de fusão e percepção de sensores de dados brutos que permite a implantação em massa de soluções de direção autônoma ADAS LeddarVision.

A equipe técnica e de gestão da LeddarTech fará uma demonstração da sua tecnologia nesses dois próximos eventos:

American Automotive Summit – 1-2 de novembro – MGM Grand Detroit

A American Automotive Summit serve como uma plataforma anual para a troca de ideias sobre o impacto da dinâmica do mercado e das novas tecnologias para os atuais e futuros líderes automotivos. Faça contatos com mais de 150 colegas, conecte-se com expositores e aprenda com os principais influenciadores e executivos do setor envolvidos na fabricação, operação, design, engenharia, qualidade da cadeia de suprimentos e inovação.

Apresentação de Frantz Saintellemy, Presidente e COO da LeddarTech às 12h10 EST no dia 2 de novembro
Tópico: “Tecnologia de detecção e percepção – Desafios e soluções importantes para ADAS e AD”

Nesta apresentação, aprenda sobre a transição para veículos definidos por software e o papel da tecnologia de detecção e percepção nela.
Estande LeddarTech: 9
Marque uma reunião com a LeddarTech no evento

Tech.AD USA – 13-15 de Novembro – The Henry Hotel Detroit

A Tech.AD USA é a principal plataforma de intercâmbio de conhecimentos da América do Norte, reunindo mais de 250 interessados com papel ativo no cenário da automação de veículos.

LeddarTech Apresenta: Tecnologia de fusão e percepção de sensores de dados brutos LeddarVision

Estande da LeddarTech Showcase: 1
Nossos experts em tecnologia demonstrarão como a tecnologia de fusão de dados brutos simplifica conjuntos de sensores complexos e elimina a dependência de hardware, para fornecer aos clientes a flexibilidade de escalar e fornecer rapidamente mais desempenho de ADAS e AD.
Veículo de Demonstração em Estrada LeddarCar ao Vivo
Disponibilidade limitada – para uma demonstração no mundo real do nosso software único que permite autonomia de Nível 2-5.

Fornecedores e OEMs automotivos de Nível 1-2: reserve uma demonstração do LeddarCar

Sobre a LeddarTech

Fundada em 2007, a LeddarTech é uma empresa de software ADAS e AD automotivo que oferece soluções abrangentes de fusão e percepção de dados brutos completos, para que os clientes resolvam desafios essenciais em toda a cadeia de valor.

A tecnologia de software de nível automotivo da LeddarTech, LeddarVision, é uma solução flexível, robusta, econômica e independente de sensores que oferece modelos ambientais 3D altamente precisos. Este software escalonável é compatível com todos os níveis de autonomia SAE com a aplicação de algoritmos de IA e visão computacional para fundir dados brutos de sensores empregados em aplicativos L2-L5. A LeddarTech usa a fusão de dados brutos para detectar obstáculos muito pequenos na estrada com melhores taxas de detecção e menos alarmes falsos do que as soluções legadas de “fusão de objetos”. Além disso, obstáculos não classificados também são detectados, proporcionando uma camada adicional de segurança ao veículo.

A LeddarTech é responsável por muitas inovações de aplicações de automotivos e de mobilidade avançadas, tendo mais de 140 capacidades aprimoradas de condução ADAS e autônomas com patentes concedidas ou em andamento.

Para mais informação sobre a LeddarTech, visite www.leddartech.com, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook e YouTube.

Contato:
Daniel Aitken, Vice-Presidente, Marketing Global, Comunicações e Relacionamento com o Investidor, LeddarTech Inc.
Tel.: + 1-418-653-9000 ramal 232 daniel.aitken@leddartech.com

Contato de Relações com Investidores: InvestorRelations@leddartech.com
https://investors.leddartech.com/

Os logotipos Leddar, LeddarTech, LeddarSteer, LeddarEngine, LeddarVision, LeddarSP, LeddarCore, LeddarEcho, VAYADrive, VayaVision, XLRator e afins são marcas comerciais ou marcas comerciais registradas da LeddarTech Inc. e suas subsidiárias. Todas as outras marcas e nomes de produtos são ou podem ser marcas comerciais ou marcas comerciais registradas usadas para identificar produtos ou serviços de seus respectivos proprietários.

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