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DEKRA remains on course despite global economic and political crises

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Entering the Centenary Year with Sustained Sales Growth

Core testing, inspection and certification business grows in all regions worldwideSustained high investment levels in Germany and in global growth marketsMarket position in future fields such as electromobility, sustainability, cyber security and artificial intelligence expanded furtherCommitment to targeted and fit-for-purpose regulations and standards

STUTTGART, Germany, Nov. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — DEKRA could hardly be entering the year of its 100th anniversary on a more future-proof and resilient footing: after the world’s largest non-listed testing, inspection and certification company exceeded a sales threshold of €4 billion for the first time in its history in 2023, DEKRA anticipates further growth in 2024. In the first ten months of the year, turnover increases by around 5%, with the core TIC (Testing, Inspections & Certification) business growing by more than 7%.

“We are optimistic that we can close 2024 with a mid-single digit increase in sales,” says Stan Zurkiewicz, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Management of DEKRA e.V. and DEKRA SE, at the company’s annual review at its Stuttgart headquarters. Despite very challenging external conditions—e.g., recession in DEKRA’s home market of Germany and continued shortage of skilled personnel across Europe—all areas of the company’s TIC business have contributed to this success. The temporary staffing segment is the only area experiencing a decline in sales, particularly in Germany, due to the difficult framework conditions. DEKRA CEO Zurkiewicz explains: “In this area, we are feeling the effects of the current economic contraction and the crisis afflicting the European automotive industry. However, we are able to offset this with more than 7 percent increase in turnover within our core business and strong demand in new focus areas.”

In the current fiscal year, DEKRA has recorded high single- to double-digit growth in the Americas (around 14%), North-West Europe (around 9%) and the Asia-Pacific region (around 9%). In its home market of Germany, the core business has grown by around 7%. The new strategic business fields related to future mobility, sustainability, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence have also contributed to this success.

DEKRA aims for continued growth in its 2025 centenary year
DEKRA will celebrate its 100th anniversary next summer. Considering this milestone, the company anticipates maintaining its growth trajectory in 2025—despite potentially volatile geopolitical and economic conditions. DEKRA expects to see another mid-single digit turnover growth in the anniversary year. This confidence stems from DEKRA’s strong market position in its traditional business areas—supported by well-established local and globally networked locations with over 500,000 customers—and a robust service portfolio geared towards future growth areas. In recent years, DEKRA has been able to position itself in these areas through significant investments. The company remains committed to this course, even amid a challenging global economy.

Investments increase once more
To sustain growth momentum beyond its centenary year in 2025, DEKRA is increasing its investments again. A double-digit million-euro investment will fund the new battery testing and certification laboratory in Klettwitz (Brandenburg, Germany) creating approximately 40 additional highly skilled jobs. The foundation stone was laid in June 2024, with the opening scheduled for 2025. “This state-of-the-art laboratory will allow us to test battery systems for electric vehicles and high-voltage storage systems for other applications—from early development phases through validation to final acceptance and certification,” explains DEKRA’s CEO.

The company already offers a patented battery test that enables extremely precise measurement of used electric vehicle battery condition in just a few minutes for over 130 electric car models.

Another example of DEKRA’s future-focused investment in Germany is a new Wi-Fi testing laboratory that recently began operations in Stuttgart. Here, DEKRA offers its customers—particularly in the automotive industry—crucial services to test the reliability, interoperability and security of Wi-Fi components.

Sustainability: Paving the way for a hydrogen economy
Another growth area is the emerging hydrogen economy, which is vital for achieving climate targets. Although the development of the green hydrogen economy may be slower than once anticipated, DEKRA sees enormous potential in hydrogen. “Our task is to ensure that the ramp-up of hydrogen production and application is safe,” says Zurkiewicz. DEKRA draws on decades of experience in established applications, such as refineries and chemical processes. DEKRA experts understand hydrogen’s properties and the associated challenges, as well as the standards, processes and testing for its safe handling. “DEKRA is well-positioned to ensure hydrogen safety throughout its entire life cycle,” says Zurkiewicz. “In this way, we are helping to build confidence for investments in the hydrogen economy.”

Striking the right balance between innovation and regulation
In connection with new EU regulations on corporate sustainability reporting, Stan Zurkiewicz notes an imbalance between bureaucratic burdens and market dynamics, resulting in competitive disadvantages for European businesses: “DEKRA has always stood, and will always stand for high standards when they serve a purpose: protecting people’s health and safety, safeguarding innovation, and building trust. The current proliferation of regulations, however, poses a hurdle, especially for small and medium-sized companies in Germany.” With specific reference to the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), DEKRA is currently advocating to improve the German draft law and to ensure the involvement of technical auditors, or so-called Independent Assurance Service Providers (IASP). “Our aim is to simplify auditing for small and medium-sized enterprises while maintaining a high standard of quality.”

AI and cybersecurity: a global competitive advantage with DEKRA
Two years since the release of ChatGPT, DEKRA continues to recognize the challenge that business and society face in making AI systems safe and responsible for people and the environment. “The focus of our work is on quality management systems, risk assessments and the development of test procedures,” reports the CEO. DEKRA has already launched its first AI services on the market. In testing AI technologies and models, the company relies on both established standards and proprietary methods. For example, DEKRA has supported a leading company in the field of AI and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) in ensuring the quality of its labeling processes. The process involves precisely labeling large datasets, such as indicating whether an image depicts a car, a person or a traffic sign. These precise labels help the AI to recognize patterns and learn to respond safely and appropriately in real-world scenarios.

DEKRA has also further expanded its cybersecurity business area, now with a global presence that includes locations in Asia, Europe and the Americas. “International corporations turn to us to quickly define reliable test scenarios in the dynamic field of cybersecurity and to implement them in a practical manner,” says Zurkiewicz. In Shanghai, for example, the company has recently awarded Lenovo the Radio Equipment Directive Delegated Act (RED/DA) certificate for a commercial notebook, the world’s first of its kind, enhancing cybersecurity, personal data protection and privacy for portable IT devices.

About DEKRA

DEKRA was originally founded in 1925 to ensure road safety through vehicle inspection. With a much wider scope today, DEKRA is the world’s largest independent non-listed expert organization in the testing, inspection, and certification sector. As a global provider of comprehensive services and solutions, we help our customers improve their safety, security and sustainability outcomes. In 2023, DEKRA generated revenue of €4.1 billion. The company currently employs around 49,000 people who offer qualified and independent expert services in approximately 60 countries across five continents. With a platinum rating from EcoVadis, DEKRA ranks among the top one percent of sustainable businesses.

 

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Yiren Digital Accelerates Operating Efficiency Through AI Agent Deployment

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Broader AI adoption improves productivity across asset recovery and enterprise operations

BEIJING, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Yiren Digital Ltd. (NYSE: YRD) (“Yiren Digital” or the “Company”), a leading company specializing in financial technology and artificial intelligence innovation across multiple industries in China and global markets, today announced measurable operating efficiency improvements as it continues to deploy AI agents across core enterprise workflows. Broader AI adoption is reducing manual intervention, increasing workforce productivity and creating greater operating leverage by automating high-volume processes across multiple business functions.

These deployments are a key component of Yiren Digital’s “All-in-AI” strategy and its broader transition from AI-assisted productivity toward agent-driven execution. By embedding AI agents into core workflows, the Company is creating reusable operating capabilities that can be deployed across its businesses, supporting greater efficiency and reducing the cost of extending automation into new functions.

“Our objective is not simply to automate individual tasks, but to fundamentally improve how work is performed across the enterprise,” said Mr. Ning Tang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Yiren Digital. “As AI agents take on more of our high-volume, demanding workflows, the productivity gains are becoming a structural part of how we run the business, not a one-time efficiency project. We will continue to deepen AI integration across our existing businesses while extending reusable capabilities into additional verticals.”

The AI deployments are supported by the Company’s proprietary enterprise AI architecture, including MagiCube 2.0, its upgraded multi-agent platform. The platform provides common infrastructure for agents deployed across marketing, customer service, capital operations, risk management, compliance and research and development, with more than 10 reusable foundational capabilities, supporting enterprise-wide execution.

Measurable Operating Impact

Lower manual intervention: The human handling rate in asset-recovery operations decreased from 45.0% to 24.9%, representing a 20.1-percentage-point decline, an approximately 44.6% relative reduction in manual intervention.

Higher staff productivity: The number of service tickets handled per asset-recovery staff member within the applicable Month 1 workflow increased from 358 to 525, an improvement of approximately 47%.

Expanded agent adoption: AI agents accounted for 81% of service tickets within eligible Day 1 asset-recovery workflows in 2025, up from 50% in 2024. The Company also deployed AI agents selectively in later-stage workflows, accounting for 20% of eligible service tickets at Day 4, 14% at Day 16 and 20% at Month 2. Each percentage is calculated separately for the relevant stage and should not be interpreted as a sequential adoption trend.

Enterprise-wide reuse: MagiCube 2.0 supports agent deployment across six enterprise functions, allowing the Company to apply common AI capabilities to a broader range of regulated and high-volume workflows.

Enterprise-scale AI execution: The Fengchao AI voice agent processes approximately 1,500 hours of real-time speech-to-text activity each day. The LingShu intelligent marketing platform executes more than 1,700 tasks daily and generates individualized communication content in an average of 0.6 seconds.

Building Enterprise Operating Leverage Through AI

As AI deployment expands across the enterprise, Yiren Digital is increasingly shifting repetitive, high-volume tasks from human-assisted processes toward agent-driven execution. By combining AI agents with centralized orchestration and governance, the Company is improving operating consistency, strengthening workforce productivity and creating reusable capabilities that increase operating leverage as AI is deployed across additional business functions.

Yiren Digital plans to continue expanding agent-driven workflows across its credit and insurance operations, as part of its ongoing All-in-AI strategy, while strengthening the shared architecture and governance that support enterprise-wide AI deployment. These capabilities are designed to scale across multiple use cases and provide a foundation for the Company’s broader expansion into AI application-layer opportunities, including AI entertainment and AI-assisted language learning.

About Yiren Digital

Yiren Digital Ltd. is a leading company specializing in financial technology and artificial intelligence innovation across multiple industries in China and global markets. The Company leverages advanced artificial intelligence and emerging technologies to enhance customer experience, optimize capital efficiency, and expand financial inclusion. Following the regulatory filing of its in-house developed Large Language Model Zhiyu, and the significant enhancement of its MagiCube Agent platform, Yiren Digital is establishing a new growth engine to accelerate its evolution into an AI-native, multi-industry operating platform extending beyond traditional financial services. For more information, please visit https://ir.yiren.com.

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Infinium Edge Launches EdgeSites™, a New Infrastructure Model for Deploying AI Compute at Existing Commercial and Industrial Facilities

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EdgeSites delivers operational AI infrastructure in existing powered buildings — factory-built data center modules, waterless cooling, and ready in months without new construction or grid interconnection required.

SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Infinium Edge™ today announced Infinium EdgeSites™, a development program that utilizes existing commercial and industrial facilities to deploy operational AI compute infrastructure. Built around Infinium Edge’s proprietary Edge Thermal Vectoring™ immersion cooling platform, EdgeSites enables high-density GPU deployments in existing buildings that were never designed as data centers — without new construction, without cooling water infrastructure, and without the multi-year grid interconnection timelines that constrain conventional large-scale data center development.

More than 20 million commercial and industrial electricity customers in the US are served by electrical infrastructure sized to peak demand – which industry research shows are utilized at only 40-60% on average. That unused headroom, capacity already contracted, energized, and sitting behind the meter, can support high-density AI compute without adding new load to the grid or waiting on a new interconnection.

At the center of the program is the Vector ONE™ — Edge’s factory-built, self-contained immersion cooling system designed to house 1 MW of AI compute capacity. Vector ONE units are engineered for deployment in standard commercial and industrial buildings, either indoors or outdoors, arriving pre-integrated, fully commissioned and require no municipal water connection. Installations are modular and scalable: additional units can be commissioned as site power and demand allow, without rebuilding the underlying infrastructure and occupy up to 70% less floor space than air-cooled equivalents.

Built for the Shift to Inference

As inference moves to displace training as the dominant AI workload, the growth opportunity is shifting towards small, distributed data centers that can be deployed quickly and sited where demand originates. Conventional data center developments are under compounding pressure from long utility interconnection queues, sometimes lasting years, pressure around water use, and general community and regulatory opposition enacting restrictions. Community opposition and regulatory friction delayed or blocked an estimated $156 billion in planned U.S. data center capacity in 2025 alone.

EdgeSites is purpose-built for the structural shift to inference and addresses key issues stalling conventional data center developments today. Each Vector ONE unit delivers 1 MW of inference-ready capacity inside an existing building, in a market that already has established electrical infrastructure, in a timeline measured in months rather than years. Multiple units can be used in tandem to deploy up to 10 MW of capacity at a single site.  The program converts the distributed inventory of underutilized industrial or commercial electrical capacity in the United States into a nationally scaled inference network. Vector ONE’s dry-cooler loop consumes no municipal water, making EdgeSites viable in markets where evaporative cooling has been restricted or banned.

“The data center industry has been answering an infrastructure shortage with a construction playbook — build new facilities, secure new grid connections, wait years for capacity to come online,” said Robert Schuetzle, CEO of Infinium. “That model cannot keep pace with AI deployment timelines. Infinium EdgeSites operate around different premises: the power already exists, the buildings already exist, and the technology now exists to put them to work. We are making operational what the industry has been treating as stranded.”

Deploying EdgeSites

As demand for AI compute continues to outpace available infrastructure and focuses on distributed inference needs, Infinium Edge is expanding the EdgeSites network with qualified host locations and compute partners.

Commercial and industrial property owners of industrial sites, distribution centers, warehouses, or large commercial properties with available electrical capacity benefit from receiving lease income from infrastructure they already own or control. Infinium Edge manages all aspects of site development and operations for installing and deploying the Vector ONE system. No capital investment or operational responsibility is required from the host.

AI companies, enterprises, and compute operators requiring infrastructure on compressed deployment timelines can access high-density, edge-proximate GPU capacity through a straightforward capacity agreement, priced by the kilowatt-month, with backup power included in the capacity fee. There is no construction to manage, no permitting process to navigate, and no cooling infrastructure to operate or maintain.

Infinium Edge manages the full program from development and installation to operation and monitoring— simplifying development and data center management for AI companies and enterprises.

Reach out to learn more and partner in EdgeSites deployments.

Inquiries: www.infinium.ai/edgesites

About Infinium Edge™
Infinium Edge™ is the advanced AI data center infrastructure platform from Infinium, delivering high-density, sustainable compute through proprietary single-phase immersion cooling technology. Infinium Edge is the only North American producer of Fischer-Tropsch immersion fluids and offers a full-stack platform — including Edge Thermal Vectoring™ platform, Vector ONE™ modular AI Factory units, ETV100 immersion fluids, and integrated monitoring systems — engineered for the thermal and operational demands of AI and high-performance computing at scale. For more information, visit www.infinium.ai.

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ChipMOS SCHEDULES SECOND QUARTER 2026 FINANCIAL RESULTS SEMIANNUAL CONFERENCE CALL

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HSINCHU, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. (“ChipMOS” or the “Company”) (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 8150 and Nasdaq: IMOS), an industry leading provider of outsourced semiconductor assembly and test services (“OSAT”), today announced that it will report second quarter 2026 results and host a semiannual conference call after the close of trading on the Taiwan Stock Exchange on Tuesday, August 11, 2026.

Investors and analysts are encouraged to participate in the semiannual conference call using the dial-in phone number noted below. A webcast and replay will be available on the Company’s website.

Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Time: 3:00PM Taiwan (3:00AM New York)
Dial-In: +886-2-3396 1191
Password: 1637011 #

Semiannual Conference Call Webcast and Replay: https://www.chipmos.com/chinese/ir/info2.aspx
Replay: Starts Approximately 2 hours after the live call ends

Language: Mandarin

Note: A transcript will be provided on the Company’s website in English following the semiannual conference call to help ensure transparency, and to facilitate a better understanding of the Company’s financial results and operating environment.

About ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC.:
ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. (“ChipMOS” or the “Company”) (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 8150 and Nasdaq: IMOS) (www.chipmos.com) is an industry leading provider of outsourced semiconductor assembly and test services. With advanced facilities in Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu Industrial Park and Southern Taiwan Science Park in Taiwan, ChipMOS is known for its track record of excellence and history of innovation. The Company provides end-to-end assembly and test services to leading fabless semiconductor companies, integrated device manufacturers and independent semiconductor foundries serving virtually all end markets worldwide.

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In Taiwan

Jesse Huang

ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC.

+886-6-5052388 ext. 7715

IR@chipmos.com

In the U.S.

David Pasquale

Global IR Partners

+1-914-337-8801

dpasquale@globalirpartners.com

 

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