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Loftware and SATO Unveil Cloud-Connected Label Printing Solution for Supply Chain Efficiency and Agility

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Plug-and-play solution eliminates printer driver dependencies, streamlines user management, and enhances operational flexibility

PORTSMOUTH, N.H., May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Loftware, the global leader in Enterprise Labeling and Artwork Management solutions, and SATO Corporation, a pioneer in the development of auto-ID and labeling solutions, today announced the availability of their cloud-connected label printing solution for AEP-equipped SATO printers1. This comes at a time when the adoption of cloud-based technologies is on the rise, with the Loftware/SATO partnership supporting this shift to streamline business processes and enhance supply chain agility.

The joint solution, which connects Loftware Cloud with SATO’s cloud-connected printers, eliminates printer driver dependencies, allowing IT teams to avoid installation, troubleshooting, updates, and management. This significantly reduces maintenance and support costs, while enabling businesses to print from any PC browser, providing flexibility to scale or adapt operations without technical constraints. Additionally, users can access the latest approved label templates from anywhere, at any time, through a secure browser and seamlessly print from their SATO printer. The platform also streamlines user management, enabling administrators to quickly add and approve new users in minutes without the need for license keys, reducing administrative burden and improving operational efficiency.

The Loftware/SATO partnership supports a range of industry applications. This includes supplier compliance to ensure accurate, timely labeling and RFID tagging – eliminating relabeling and improving supply chain efficiency. It also enhances in-plant labeling for better process control within factories, ensures retail labeling consistency with industry standards, and streamlines third-party logistics (3PL) labeling for seamless integration with logistics providers.

Hayato Shindo, Group Business Officer at SATO Corporation, commented: “In today’s fast-paced business environment, manufacturers face many challenges, such as changing customer, legal and regulatory requirements; remote working and collaboration; rapid scaling up of operations; and improving productivity while reducing operating costs. Traditional desktop label design applications, while effective in the past, are no longer sufficient to manage these complexities. The solution provided by SATO and Loftware addresses these challenges head-on by offering a centralized and secure platform for label design and printing.”

Loftware Cloud expands labeling capabilities across internal stakeholders, external suppliers, co-manufacturers, and co-packers, who all play a role in the complex supply chain process. With seamless integration into both on-premise and cloud-based business applications such as ERP, WMS, and PLM, Loftware Cloud optimizes workflows for greater efficiency and accuracy.

SATO’s cloud-connected printers further enhance this solution with effortless installation and mobility. Simply connecting a LAN cable ensures the printer is ready for immediate use. This plug-and-play functionality makes it easy to relocate printers as needed, giving businesses the flexibility to adapt to changing operational demands.

Denis Stojanoski, Loftware Senior Alliance Program Manager, added: “Loftware and SATO have a long-standing partnership built on a shared commitment to innovation. Together, we continue to develop cutting-edge supply chain solutions that empower businesses to operate more efficiently, adapt to evolving industry demands, and future-proof their operations. By combining our expertise, we’re driving the future of labeling to deliver greater agility, scalability, and value for our customers.”

Loftware and SATO’s global partnership extends over a quarter century. In recent years, the two have developed an advanced RFID encoding and logging solution to help businesses meet stringent traceability standards. The partnership between Loftware and SATO represents a strategic shift toward addressing specific use cases to better meet modern business needs. For more information, contact Loftware and SATO.

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Models compatible with SATO’s Application Enabled Printing intelligence: CL4NX Plus, CL6NX Plus, CT4-LX, CT4-LX-HC, FX3-LX, PW4NX, S84NX, S86NX and LR4NX-FA

About Loftware
No matter what the challenge – digital transformation, time to market, or brand authenticity – Loftware can help you make your mark. We understand how global supply chains work and know that each item you produce, and ship is an expression of your company’s brand. Our end-to-end cloud-based labeling platform helps businesses of all sizes manage labeling across their operations and supply chain. Loftware also helps companies deal with evolving customer and regulatory compliance issues. And we offer extensive expertise with a global presence maintaining offices in the US, UK, Slovenia, China, and Singapore. We serve companies in automotive, chemicals, clinical trials, consumer products, electronics, food & beverage, manufacturing, medical device, pharmaceuticals, retail/apparel, and more. 

About SATO 
SATO (TOKYO:6287) designs and manufactures hardware, labels and tags and develops software to integrate with third party offerings as automatic identification solutions. These solutions streamline workflows, enabling data capture and visualization for a connected world of productivity, safety, reassurance and sustainability. By giving things a digital identity, SATO helps businesses in retail, manufacturing, food, health care and transport & logistics run smoothly. Founded in 1940, SATO has a presence in 26 countries with a workforce of over 5,700. For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024, it reported revenues of 143,446 million yen ($992 million*). 

More information about SATO can be found at www.sato-global.com
*Based on an average exchange rate of 1 USD = 144.58 JPY

Media contacts:
Laura Hindley, Senior PR & Communications Manager, lhindley@loftware.com
Kevin Leidheiser, Public Relations, kevin.leidheiser@sato-global.com

 

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SEEKINK Showcases Innovative E-Paper Applications and OEM/ODM Solutions at Electronica 2026

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MUNICH, Nov. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SEEKINK, an ePaper display module manufacturer and one-stop provider of ePaper devices, joined forces with TOPTE, a provider of Human-Machine Interface (HMI) display solutions, to exhibit at Electronica 2026 in Munich, Germany, at Hall B6, Booth 518.

Taking advantage of this international electronics industry platform, SEEKINK and TOPTE presented a comprehensive portfolio of low-power display technologies, highlighting their combined capabilities in ePaper modules, monochrome LCDs displays modules, TFT LCDs displays modules, single-module AMOLED displays modules, CTP/RTP touchscreens, fully laminated touch-display modules, and customized OEM/ODM services.

Exhibition Highlights and Product Portfolio

Featuring a contemporary wooden structure and distinctive circular lighting installations, the joint exhibition booth provided visitors with an immersive opportunity to explore display technologies and their applications across different scenarios.

The exhibition highlighted a diverse range of end products and solutions, including E Ink Prism modular walls, ePaper photo frames and advertising displays, smart electronic labels, and digital office solutions.

E Ink Prism Modular Wall Expands Large-Format Commercial Display Applications

One of the key highlights was the E Ink Prism™ 3S modular ePaper wall, which brings new possibilities to large-format commercial display and advertising applications.

Designed as a modular decorative wall, the Prism installation supports scalable configurations, dynamic color changes, and customizable graphic patterns. Its paper-like display surface is glare-free and can maintain static content with near-zero power consumption. These characteristics make it suitable for advertising, brand presentations, reception areas, and creative spaces.

The installation demonstrates the potential of ePaper technology as a modern form of digital surface design, extending its applications beyond conventional displays into architectural and interior decoration.

From ePaper Photo Frames to Smart Accessories: Expanding Consumer Electronics Applications

In the consumer electronics segment, SEEKINK showcased ePaper photo frames in multiple sizes, including 4-inch, 5.89-inch, 7.09-inch, 10.1-inch, and 13.3-inch models. The portfolio also included larger 28.5-inch and 31.5-inch wall-mounted ePaper art frames and advertising displays, exploring new possibilities for digital image presentation in residential and indoor environments.

In addition, SEEKINK presented a range of new ePaper-enabled lifestyle accessories, including round badges, fridge magnet, anti-loss trackers, luggage tags, and pet tags.

With highly customizable designs for branding and personalization, paper-like eye-friendly displays, and a combination of environmental and aesthetic benefits, these products demonstrate the expanding potential of ePaper technology in personal accessories and everyday consumer electronics.

A Diverse ePaper Product Portfolio for Digital Office Applications

For digital office environments, SEEKINK presented several ePaper display solutions, including 3.7-inch color ePaper badges, 7.3-inch color and 7.5-inch 4-color solar-powered ePaper desk signs, and 10.2-inch four-color ePaper door signs.

These products support centralized content management and real-time information synchronization while maintaining low power consumption during continuous display. They are designed to support more energy-efficient and streamlined office operations, with applications including meeting room information, employee identification, and workstation information in shared office environments.

ePaper Labels for Industrial and Logistics Applications

For industrial and logistics applications, SEEKINK showcased a range of compact ePaper labels in sizes including 2.9 inches, 3.7 inches, and 4.2 inches.

The monochrome models combine fast refresh performance, low power consumption, and long battery life, offering a proven and reliable option for the digital transformation of industrial, logistics, and warehousing operations.

Meanwhile, continued technological advancements in BWRY and full-color E Ink Spectra 6 displays are further expanding the visual capabilities of ePaper labels, creating more possibilities for their use in digital industrial and logistics environments.

Strategic Collaboration and Market Focus

SEEKINK and TOPTE aim to provide one-stop display solutions for customers worldwide. By combining SEEKINK’s expertise in ePaper display module manufacturing with TOPTE’s capabilities in HMI display solutions, the two companies seek to address the growing demand for sustainable and energy-efficient display technologies in the European market.

About Jiangxi Xingtai Technology Inc. (SEEKINK)

SEEKINK is a professional ePaper display module manufacturer and one-stop OEM/ODM service provider. Leveraging its integrated industrial capabilities, spanning ePaper display modules to complete ePaper devices, SEEKINK is committed to enabling innovative ePaper applications across smart retail, commercial displays, smart offices, consumer electronics, digital art, and smart industrial and logistics sectors.

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Website: https://www.seekink.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/seekink/
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Business Inquiries: enquiries@seekink.com 

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SolidRun Launches NXP i.MX 95 Portfolio with Complete Industrial Ecosystem and Demonstrated NVIDIA Holoscan Integration

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New i.MX 95 SoM, HummingBoard i.MX 95 IIoT carrier and camera partner ecosystem connect NXP edge nodes to SolidRun’s NVIDIA-based AI systems under one vendor, with all three Ethernet PHYs, including 10GbE, on the module

MUNICH, Germany and TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SolidRun, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance System-on-Modules (SoMs), Single Board Computers (SBCs) and industrial edge computing solutions, today at electronica 2026 announced its NXP® i.MX 95 product family, combining the i.MX 95 SoM, HummingBoard i.MX 95 IIoT industrial carrier, software support, a camera integration ecosystem and a demonstrated end-to-end NVIDIA Holoscan implementation.

Engineered for Industry 4.0, real-time robotics, energy storage systems (ESS) and industrial networking infrastructure, the platform delivers deterministic multi-gigabit networking, real-time safety control and scalable Physical Edge AI. By bringing the essential hardware, software and integration capabilities together under one roof, SolidRun helps OEMs simplify development, reduce engineering risk and accelerate time to market.

“Industrial OEMs and infrastructure providers are moving rapidly toward Physical AI, but they face immense friction with multi-gigabit signal routing and fragmented vendor ecosystems,” said Alexander Schwartz, Head of Product at SolidRun. “By integrating all Ethernet PHYs, including 10GbE, directly on the i.MX 95 SoM while maintaining drop-in pin compatibility with our i.MX8 lines, we eliminate hardware design friction. And because we design both our NXP and NVIDIA edge platforms in-house, our customers gain a single, fully integrated system architecture that scales from compact real-time nodes up to enterprise-grade AI clusters under one roof.”

A Complete Industrial Ecosystem, From Sensor to AI

At the center of the portfolio is SolidRun’s HummingBoard i.MX 95 IIoT industrial carrier, designed for demanding applications that require high-speed networking, real-time control and multi-sensor integration. Key features include:

Industrial connectivity: Dual Gigabit Ethernet, 10GbE RJ45 with optional SFP+ optical connectivity, dual CAN-FD, RS485 and RS232Real-time control and safety: Cortex-M7 (800MHz) and Cortex-M33 (333MHz) safety domain, providing a foundation for ASIL-B and SIL-2 functional safety certificationVision and expansion: Dual MIPI CSI-2 camera interfaces with advanced ISP support, dual display outputs and multiple M.2 slots for AI acceleration, NVMe storage and 5G/cellular connectivity

Beyond the hardware, SolidRun supports a growing ecosystem of camera partners, software solutions, developer tools and application demonstrations, giving customers a coordinated platform from initial evaluation through deployment.

Demonstrated NVIDIA Holoscan Integration

SolidRun is the first to demonstrate a complete, self-contained i.MX 95 to NVIDIA Holoscan to GPU implementation on hardware from a single vendor. The pipeline processes camera and sensor data using the i.MX 95’s integrated ISP and 2.3 TOPS NPU, streams it over 10GbE for GPU inference on a SolidRun NVIDIA-based AI system, and returns commands to the Cortex-M7 core for real-time closed-loop control. Because the implementation is fully software-defined, it handles more complex workloads than fixed-function streaming front ends.

One Vendor, From NXP Edge Nodes to NVIDIA AI Systems

SolidRun brings its NXP-based embedded platforms and NVIDIA-based AI systems together in a unified, software-defined architecture, giving customers a single hardware partner from edge processing to advanced AI inference. This integrated approach simplifies development, reduces integration complexity and accelerates time to market.

Simplifying Industrial Design with Integrated Connectivity

Unlike other i.MX 95 modules that route raw SERDES or USXGMII signals to carrier connectors, SolidRun is the first to integrate all three Ethernet PHYs, including 10GbE, directly on the SoM. This eliminates the need for OEMs to design complex multi-gigabit PHY circuitry, high-speed differential pairs and magnetics, reducing PCB complexity, EMI compliance risk and development cost. All three Ethernet ports support Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) for deterministic industrial communication.

The i.MX 95 SoM also retains the 47 x 30 mm footprint and pinout compatibility of SolidRun’s previous-generation i.MX8 and i.MX8M Plus modules, providing an upgrade path without redesigning existing carrier hardware. Powered by Arm® Cortex®-A55 cores, LPDDR5 memory and the integrated eIQ® Neutron NPU, the platform increases AI processing and bandwidth while protecting customers’ existing hardware investments.

“Physical AI at the industrial edge demands compute, real-time control and safety on one chip, which is exactly what we designed the i.MX 95 to deliver, with its eIQ Neutron NPU, integrated ISP and dedicated safety domain,” said Robert Thompson, Director, Secure Connected Edge Ecosystem at NXP Semiconductors. “SolidRun’s module puts that capability to work the way OEMs need it, with the hardest parts of the system design already done, so they can bring their next generation of intelligent industrial products to market faster and with less risk.”

Availability

The SolidRun i.MX 95 SoM and HummingBoard i.MX 95 IIoT carrier are shipping now in quad- and hexa-core configurations, with commercial, wide and industrial temperature grades, including industrial operation from -40°C to +85°C. Software support and developer tools are available to accelerate evaluation and deployment.

For more information, visit SolidRun i.MX 95 SoM and HummingBoard i.MX 95 IIoT.

For more information about SolidRun, visit www.solid-run.com.

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About SolidRun

SolidRun is a leading developer and manufacturer of embedded computing and networking solutions, offering Arm- and x86-based Computer-on-Modules (SoMs), single-board computers and industrial edge computing platforms. As an original design manufacturer, SolidRun makes the latest silicon accessible to OEMs and accelerates the development and deployment of embedded, IoT and AI applications. For more information, visit www.solid-run.com.

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London startups backed by 2100 Ventures recognised among Europe’s most promising AI companies

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2100 Ventures ranks #28 among the Top 50 investors and lenders behind Sifted’s AI 100, as Alessandro Benetton backs the next generation of European tech innovators

LONDON, Nov. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Two London startups backed by European early-stage venture capital firm 2100 Ventures have been recognised in Sifted’s 2026 AI 100, which ranks Europe’s most promising AI-native startups. Swap ranks #9 and Lupa #38, among four 2100 Ventures portfolio companies to make this year’s list. 

2100 Ventures has also been named the only Italian investor among Sifted’s Top 50 investors and lenders behind the AI 100, ranking #28 overall, with twice as many portfolio companies represented as last year. The recognition highlights the firm’s role in identifying and supporting emerging European technology businesses as they develop and scale. 

Alongside Swap (#9) and Lupa (#38), the other 2100 Ventures-backed companies recognised are Mimic (#23) and Orbio (#62). 

More than 1,500 eligible companies were considered for Sifted’s 2026 AI 100, which covers AI-native startups valued under $1bn, with companies assessed on market opportunity, competitive differentiation and momentum. 

London-based Swap, which ranks #9 in the AI 100, provides an AI-powered platform helping ecommerce brands manage and grow their global operations. Founded in 2022, the company raised $100 million in January 2026, following a $40 million Series B, bringing its total funding to $149 million. 

Lupa (#38) is a London-based, AI-native veterinary technology company developing software to modernise veterinary practice management by automating administrative tasks, clinical documentation and client communications. Founded in 2023, the company raised $4 million in seed funding in January 2025 from investors including firstminute capital, 2100 Ventures and Vento by Exor Ventures. In October 2025, Lupa announced a further $20 million Series A, bringing its reported total funding to $25 million. 

Founded in 2023 by Alessandro Benetton alongside Andrea Casasco and Andrea Gennarini, 2100 Ventures invests in and supports early-stage businesses across sectors including AI, SaaS, fintech, data and ClimateTech. The firm – supported by Edizione, one of the most important European industrial holdings, and 21 Invest – works with emerging founders as they develop ambitious ideas and build businesses capable of international impact. 

Alessandro Benetton, Chairman of Edizione, founded the private equity firm 21 Invest in 1992, which has since raised more than €3 billion in capital and invested in more than 110 companies. His involvement in 2100 Ventures extends that investment activity into Europe’s early-stage technology ecosystem, with a focus on backing a new generation of entrepreneurs and innovation that can create shared value for business and society.

Alessandro Benetton said: “Europe has extraordinary entrepreneurial talent, and we believe strongly in giving the next generation of founders the backing they need to turn ambitious ideas into businesses with international impact. 

“Young people represent both the present and the future of our society. We need to listen to them, help them express their talent and support them as they drive innovation and bring forward new solutions for society. For me, this is also what shared value means: supporting enterprise in a way that creates lasting benefits not only for business, but for the wider communities it serves. 

“Having four 2100 Ventures portfolio companies recognised among Sifted’s AI 100 is encouraging. It reflects the ambition of these founders and the importance of giving emerging talent the support, confidence and resources to challenge established models and create new opportunities. That was central to why we created 2100 Ventures.”

 

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