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Government of Canada Supporting Critical Minerals Processing in Kingston

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KINGSTON, ON, Sept. 4, 2024 /CNW/ – From mining critical minerals to manufacturing cars and batteries, to charging and end-of-life recycling, the electric vehicle supply chain presents an enormous economic opportunity for Canadian workers and businesses. As the demand for critical minerals to power the clean economy is expected to double by 2030, according to the International Energy Agency, Canada is supporting strong domestic value chains for critical minerals and the clean technologies and energy sources they enable.

Today, Mark Gerretsen, Member of Parliament for Kingston and the Islands, on behalf of the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, announced almost $8.4 million in investments to Cyclic Materials Incorporated (Cyclic Materials) and Green Graphite Technologies Inc. (GGT) under the Critical Minerals Research, Development and Demonstration (CMRDD) program. This funding will support the development of a circular economy for rare earth elements for permanent magnets and the recycling of graphite for use in lithium-ion batteries here in Canada.

Cyclic Materials will operate a demonstration plant that produces high purity mixed rare earth oxide and a cobalt–nickel mixed hydroxide product from various recycled materials using its proprietary physical and hydrometallurgical processes. Rare earth elements are metals used in various applications, but the highest value application is permanent magnets, which are used in electric vehicle motors, wind turbines and many electronics, such as computers and cell phones. This project will validate operating conditions to support future scale and commercial operations. The project will promote a circular economy in Canada through the creation of a robust recycling process, address knowledge gaps in scaling and testing technology, and decrease the dependence on imported critical minerals. Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) is providing $4.9 million to Cyclic Materials for this initiative.    

GGT will demonstrate their GraphRenewTM technology’s ability to cost-effectively and sustainably recover and transform graphite from secondary sources into lithium-ion battery-grade graphite. The upgraded graphite will undergo battery cell performance testing, and larger quantities will be sent to major battery cell manufacturers to begin certification testing. Lithium-ion batteries main target use is EVs, but they are also used in solar panels and electronics, like cell phones and laptops. The project could address a significant knowledge gap in the lithium-ion battery industry while focusing on recycling batteries and upgrading spent graphite, enabling commercialization and improving circularity in the graphite value chain domestically. NRCan is providing $3.5 million to GGT for this initiative.

All across the country, Canadian workers and businesses are moving quickly to seize the economic opportunity that critical minerals, and the entire electric vehicle supply chain, present — now and into the future. Investments like today’s will create good jobs and build a strong economy in Kingston, Ontario and beyond.

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“The exploration, mining, processing, advanced manufacturing and recycling of critical minerals represent an enormous economic opportunity for our country. Investments in these projects focus on increasing innovation in technology, building expertise and filling knowledge gaps in Canada, importantly with the dynamic and experienced clean tech sector here in Kingston. I am very pleased to announce projects that demonstrate how Kingston continues to prove itself on the domestic and global fronts as a clean tech center for technology development and commercialization.” 

Mark Gerretsen, Member of Parliament for Kingston and the Islands

“Across critical mineral value chains — from upstream exploration and extraction to downstream processing, manufacturing and recycling — the battery value chain holds incredible economic opportunity for Canada and Canadians. New technologies will help address gaps in our world-leading supply chain, seize the economic opportunity presented to us, keep Canadian industry competitive in a rapidly evolving global context, and create jobs — now and for future generations. This is important news for Kingston, and beyond.”

The Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson
Minister of Energy and Natural Resources

“We are honoured and excited to receive this financial investment from NRCan. Rare earth materials are fundamental to the world’s most critical infrastructure, and it’s essential that we collectively work on creating a more resilient supply chain while reducing emissions and improving traditional mining practices. We are eager to partner with NRCan to further Canada’s clean energy goals by scaling up our technology.”

Ahmad Ghahreman
CEO, Cyclic Materials Inc.

“It’s crucial to understand and demand that the materials needed to produce EVs be sustainably produced. We don’t want to solve one problem and end up creating several new ones. As a chemical engineer and President of Green Graphite Technologies, my co-founders and I are proud to be commercializing a technology that will make a meaningful difference to our society and demonstrate that Canadian companies are leading the way to a sustainable future. Thank you, Natural Resources Canada, for your support, which is key to advancing the rapid commercialization of our patented game-changing technology.”

Gillian Holcroft
CEO, Green Graphite Technologies Inc.

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The Government of Canada has identified 34 critical minerals, 29 of which are also found on Ontario’s Critical Minerals List.Ontario produced approximately $3.5 billion in critical minerals in 2020, with nickel and platinum group metals having the highest production.Canada has some of the largest known reserves and resources of rare earths, estimated at over 14 million tonnes in 2021.Budget 2022 provided $3.8 billion over eight years to implement the Canadian Critical Minerals Strategy. The funding covers a range of industrial activities, from geoscience and exploration to mineral processing, manufacturing and recycling applications, including support for research, development and technological deployment.Funding for these projects comes from NRCan’s Critical Minerals Research, Development and Demonstration Program (CMRDD). The CMRDD is part of the Canadian Critical Minerals Strategy and aims to support the development of innovative processing technologies for the critical minerals industry, which will help advance Canadian mining projects toward production.Canada’s Critical Minerals Strategy is part of Canada’s strengthened climate plan, 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan: Clean Air, Strong Economy, which advances Canada’s goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and reaching net-zero emissions by 2050.In 2024, Canada surpassed China to take the number-one spot as the country with the most potential to build a reliable electric vehicle supply chain.

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Cyclic Materials IncorporatedGreen Graphite TechnologiesCritical Minerals Research, Development and Demonstration ProgramCanadian Critical Minerals StrategyOntario’s Critical Minerals Strategy 2022–2027: Unlocking potential to drive economic recovery and prosperityGovernment of Canada Launches Second Call for Proposals for Critical Minerals Research Development and Demonstration ProgramMinister Wilkinson Releases Canada’s $3.8-billion Critical Minerals Strategy to Seize Generational Opportunity for Clean, Inclusive Growth

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Weibo Corporation to Report First Quarter 2026 Financial Results on May 28, 2026

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BEIJING, April 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Weibo Corporation (NASDAQ: WB and HKEX: 9898), a leading social media for people to create, share and discover content, will announce its unaudited financial results for the first quarter 2026 before the U.S. market opens on Thursday, May 28, 2026. Following the announcement, Weibo’s management team will host a conference call from 7 AM – 8 AM Eastern Time on May 28, 2026 (or 7 PM – 8 PM Beijing Time on May 28, 2026) to present an overview of the Company’s financial performance and business operations.

Participants who wish to dial in to the teleconference must register through the below public participant link. Dial in and instruction will be in the confirmation email upon registering.

Participants Registration Link: https://register-conf.media-server.com/register/BIb549b1f6935046d98b52a0fe61be918e

Additionally, a live and archived webcast of this conference call will be available at http://ir.weibo.com.

About Weibo Corporation

Weibo is a leading social media for people to create, share and discover content online. Weibo combines the means of public self-expression in real time with a powerful platform for social interaction, content aggregation and content distribution. Any user can create and post a feed and attach multi-media and long-form content. User relationships on Weibo may be asymmetric; any user can follow any other user and add comments to a feed while reposting. This simple, asymmetric and distributed nature of Weibo allows an original feed to become a live viral conversation stream.

Weibo enables its advertising and marketing customers to promote their brands, products and services to users. Weibo offers a wide range of advertising and marketing solutions to companies of all sizes. The Company generates a substantial majority of its revenues from the sale of advertising and marketing services, including the sale of social display advertisement and promoted marketing offerings. Designed with a “mobile first” philosophy, Weibo displays content in a simple information feed format and offers native advertisement that conform to the information feed on our platform. To support the mobile format, we have developed and continuously refining our social interest graph recommendation engine, which enables our customers to perform people marketing and target audiences based on user demographics, social relationships, interests and behaviors, to achieve greater relevance, engagement and marketing effectiveness

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Weibo Corporation
Phone: +86 10 5898-3336
Email: ir@staff.weibo.com 

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Perceptive eClinical Launches Technology-Enabled Clinical Supply Consultancy in Alliance with Trialzen

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Expert-led clinical supply strategy powered by advanced planning and analytics technologies.

NOTTINGHAM, England and LASNE, Belgium, April 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Perceptive eClinical, a leading provider of interactive response technology (IRT) and eClinical solutions, and Trialzen, an expert-led Forecasting and Supply Technology company, today announced an alliance supporting Perceptive eClinical in the launch of its Clinical Intelligence Consultancy Service, Perceptive Clinical Intelligence. This transforms its long–standing clinical supply expertise into a fully integrated, expert–led service spanning the entire clinical trial lifecycle and enabled by Trialzen’s advanced clinical supply planning technologies.

Perceptive Clinical Intelligence combines Perceptive’s deep expertise in randomization and clinical supply optimization with data-driven, technology enabled mathematical optimization, simulation, and forecasting to support smarter planning across the trial lifecycle. This integrated offering helps sponsors design, stress test, and manage clinical supply strategies with greater confidence and operational control. By formalizing its in-house expertise and therapeutic experience, Perceptive unifies randomization, trial supply management technologies and clinical supply consulting to enable more informed, scalable, and lower risk supply decision making.

“Clinical trial supply decisions are too critical to rely on tools alone,” said Malcolm Morrissey, Head of Perceptive Clinical Intelligence. “While supply discussions often focus on stock levels and overage, the real risk is patient impact. Supply availability determines whether visits happen, treatment is delivered on time, and sites can operate with confidence. Effective supply management means looking beyond IP numbers to understand patient continuity and visit level risk across the entire trial.”

Industry benchmarks show that approximately 50% of Clinical Finished Goods (CFG) manufactured for clinical trials are never administered to patients, representing hundreds of millions of dollars in wasted drug supply each year1.

“Setting up Perceptive Clinical Intelligence reflects the next step in Perceptive’s evolution, combining deep clinical supply and randomization expertise with data–driven technology to enable smarter supply planning, and increased supply confidence, and continuity across the trial lifecycle,” said Shaun Hopgood, Chief Operating Officer at Perceptive eClinical.

Perceptive eClinical and Trialzen have each delivered proven results for sponsors, with real–world engagements generating savings exceeding $1 million and materially reducing supply overage.

A Technology Enabled, Expert-Led Approach

Delivered by Perceptive’s in–house specialists, the consultancy is built on 30 years of experience supporting biotech and large pharma across randomization and clinical supply management. It combines Perceptive’s proven supply–modelling expertise with Trialzen’s advanced calculation and simulation engine, fully integrated into Perceptive’s next–generation platform, Clinphone Pro.

Anchored in deep oncology expertise, where global scale, complex dosing, and multi–layered supply chains increase planning risk, the consultancy also draws on experience across Endocrinology and Metabolism, and Infectious Diseases, and supports emerging areas such as Precision and Nuclear Medicine, and Cell and Gene Therapies. 

Reflecting on this alliance and its objectives, Cedric Druck, CEO and Co–Founder of Trialzen, commented: “Trialzen was built by clinical supply experts who spent years watching planning decisions get made on spreadsheets and gut feel, then handed off to execution systems with no feedback loop. This collaboration with Perceptive closes that gap. By integrating our forecasting and simulation capabilities directly with their IRT platform, we enable sponsors to move from scenario planning to operational action in a single environment, with full transparency at every step.”

At the heart of this alliance is a shared belief that clinical supply planning and execution should live in one connected environment. “Together, Perceptive and Trialzen are working toward a unified way of operating, where strategic decisions and day–to–day execution come together, enabling greater visibility, smarter scenarios, and more confident supply decisions from manufacturing through to patient dosing”. said Tony Street, Senior Vice President Strategy at Trialzen.

Clients benefit from:

Faster study start-up and smoother amendments through early supply optimizationHigher quality supply decisions driven by expert oversight and data backed insightGreater confidence through strategic expert consultancy for complex trialsMid-study forecast adjustments and up-to-date quantitative support for key decisions

About Perceptive eClinical

Perceptive eClinical is a trusted leader in delivering advanced trial capabilities. With over 30 years of proven Interactive Response Technology (IRT) and supply management expertise, more than 500 regulatory approvals and support for three million patients worldwide, we deliver reliability, security and precision. This is reflected in our consistently high customer satisfaction score of 4.5 out of 5 over the past three years. Our future-proof IRT solution, Clinphone Pro, helps sponsors manage the speed, complexity and personalization of modern clinical trials. Built for flexibility and seamless integration, it supports smarter, more efficient studies across all phases and therapeutic areas. In 2025, Perceptive eClinical was recognized as a leader in Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix® Assessment for RTSM Solutions, affirming our commitment to innovation, global delivery excellence and measurable value for sponsors and CROs.

About Trialzen

Trialzen is a technology company built by industry experts specializing in clinical trial supply forecasting and planning. Its Forecast & Planning Solution (FPS) is a purpose-built SaaS platform that enables sponsors and CROs to model, simulate, and optimize clinical supply strategies across the full trial lifecycle. Built by clinical supply experts, Trialzen combines advanced mathematical modelling and analytics with a transparent, user-friendly interface, allowing teams to evaluate scenarios, anticipate risk, and make informed supply decisions with speed and confidence. 

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McKinsey & Company, Clinical Supply Chains insights

Media Contact: Zara Broadfield, Marketing Director Perceptive eClinical, zara.broadfield@perceptive.com 

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Mouser Electronics New Product Insider: Over 9,000 New Parts Added in First Quarter of 2026

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SHANGHAI, April 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As an authorized distributor, Mouser Electronics, Inc. is focused on the rapid introduction of new products and technologies, giving customers an edge and helping speed time to market. Over 1,200 semiconductor and electronic component manufacturer brands count on Mouser to help them introduce their products into the global marketplace. Mouser’s customers can expect 100% certified, genuine products that are fully traceable from each manufacturer.

Last quarter, Mouser launched more than 9,000 part numbers ready for shipment. Some of the products introduced by Mouser from January through March 2026 include:

STMicroelectronics STM32C5 Arm® Cortex®-M33 Microcontrollers
The STM32C5 microcontrollers (MCUs) from STMicroelectronics are specifically designed to boost the performance of billions of tiny smart devices across factories, homes, cities, and infrastructure while meeting stringent cost, size, and power constraints. Based on ST’s proprietary 40 nm manufacturing process, the STM32C5 MCUs can run tasks noticeably faster than many entry-level chips currently in use. This gives products more room to include features such as improved sensing, smoother control, and enhanced user experiences while keeping dynamic power consumption low. The MCUs also integrate security features that help safeguard products against tampering and cyber risks.EDATEC ED-CM0NANO Single-Board Computer
The ED-CM0NANO is a single-board computer (SBC) from EDATEC, based on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module Zero (CM0). The ED-CM0NANO features a quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 processor running at up to 1 GHz, a Broadcom VideoCore-IV graphics processor, and a wide range of connectivity options. Optional Wi-Fi® support with an external antenna enables wireless connectivity, while integrated real-time clock (RTC) and watchdog timer enhance system reliability. These features make the ED-CM0NANO ideal for industrial control systems and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.Sensata Technologies MGD Resonix™ Refrigerant Leak Sensor
The MGD Resonix™ sensor from Sensata delivers high accuracy and fast response times in a compact module that fits into the smallest heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), and refrigeration equipment. The MGD series offers superior resistance to overexposure and poisoning, as well as to high temperatures (working temperatures up to 105 °C) and humidity. These devices also have a service life of more than 15 years with no need for calibration, making them the ideal leak-detection component for A2L HVAC and refrigeration systems.u-blox ANN-MB3 Triple-Band GNSS Antenna
The ANN-MB3 from u-blox is a best-in-class L1/L2/L5 triple-band RTK real-time kinematic (RTK) solution ideal for the F20 high-precision GNSS. Optimized for seamless integration, the ANN-MB3 antenna delivers exceptional performance with a robust design. The antenna’s compact (62 × 80 × 25.5 mm) form factor and flexible installation options enable the adoption of high-precision positioning technologies across industrial, automotive, and robotics applications.

To see more of the New Product Insider highlights, go to https://info.mouser.com/new_products/.

For more Mouser news and our latest new product introductions, visit https://www.mouser.com/newsroom/.

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