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Anamana Disrupts Micro-Serial Market with AI-Native Platform; 97% Cost Reduction Empowers Global Creators to Challenge “China-Centric” Model

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By empowering a culturally-native creator ecosystem with agentic AI, Anamana bypasses traditional ‘reskinning’ models to deliver high-resonance storytelling at 3% of legacy production costs

SINGAPORE, May 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Anamana, the first integrated AI-native micro-serial ecosystem, today shared demographic data from its inaugural Anamana 100 Creator Incubator, revealing a globally diversified creator base poised to disrupt the non-China global micro-drama industry analysts estimate to reach $5 billion this year.

Two months into the program, the platform has successfully greenlit projects across five continents, signaling a major move away from the dominant mass-production “reskinning” model used by incumbents such as ReelShort and DramaBox.

While the market has historically relied on exporting Chinese narratives through simple translation or Western “reskinning,” Anamana utilizes agentic AI to empower culturally-native storytellers. The Anamana Studio production platform allows individual creators to produce high-fidelity serialized video with up to 97% lower capital and manpower costs than traditional live-action filming, effectively lowering the barrier to entry for independent creators worldwide.

“The current ROI-driven mass production model has hit a creative ceiling,” said Brian Xie, founder of Anamana. “We aren’t just localizing scripts; we are providing the tools for creators around the world to own their narratives and maximize their own economic results. By reducing production costs by over 90%, we are shifting the power from centralized content factories back to the original storyteller.”

Global Creator Footprint & Engagement

Internal statistics from the incubator showcase a massive shift in how global talent is embracing AI-native vertical drama:

The Americas: Represent 40% of both total applications and active production projects.Asia & Europe: Account for a combined 50% of the applicant pool and 53% of current productions.Africa & Oceania: Despite smaller total volumes, projects are nearly evenly split, showcasing high engagement from emerging creative “tribes”, particularly in the number of submissions from Africa.

“Geographic diversity is just the start—cultural authenticity is the goal,” said Kai Pan, Head of Marketing Communications. “With AI-native technology, storytellers are no longer tethered to traditional production hubs like Los Angeles, Kyiv, or Istanbul. We are democratizing the ‘addictive’ vertical format, ensuring the next global hit feels as authentic to its audience as it does to its creator.”

Anamana’s $2 million incubator fund continues to commission creators to foster the first generation of AI-native visual storytellers. Creators interested in the future of micro-serials can apply at anamana.com.

About Anamana

Founded in 2025, Anamana is an integrated AI-native micro-serial platform, production ecosystem, and global creator incubator. By leveraging agentic AI in Anamana Studio, the company enables human storytellers to produce and distribute premium vertical content with unprecedented efficiency. Micro-serials produced are distributed on Anamana’s standalone app and third-party platforms including YouTube and TikTok.

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American Industrial Partners Completes Acquisition of Honeywell Technologies’ Warehouse and Workflow Solutions Business

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AIP to combine Intelligrated and Trew as a leading warehouse automation platform

NEW YORK, July 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — American Industrial Partners (“AIP”), an operationally oriented industrials investor, today announced that an affiliate of AIP has completed its acquisition of Intelligrated from Honeywell Technologies. Moving forward, AIP will bring together the capabilities of Intelligrated, including Transnorm, and Trew as part of a broader warehouse automation platform.

Intelligrated is a leading provider of material handling and warehouse automation solutions, delivering integrated systems including sortation, conveyor, palletizing and robotics technologies, supported by software and aftermarket services that drive operational efficiency and fulfillment performance. Intelligrated is supported by more than 3,300 employees.

AIP’s investment in Intelligrated builds on its existing investment in Trew, a U.S.-based manufacturer and integrator of automated material handling systems and software. Together, Intelligrated, Trew and Transnorm bring complementary capabilities across warehouse automation, material handling systems, software, lifecycle services and aftermarket support. Transnorm will continue to operate as a distinct business within the broader platform. The platform will continue to benefit from AIP’s partnership with Redwood Technology Ventures (RTV), whose team includes members of the original founding team of Intelligrated and brings deep sector experience in material handling and warehouse automation solutions.

“We are pleased to officially welcome Intelligrated to the AIP portfolio and to begin the next chapter for Intelligrated, Trew and Transnorm,” said Murray Grainger, Partner at AIP. “These are three highly complementary businesses with strong technology, deep customer relationships, broad installed bases and talented teams. We believe bringing these platforms together creates a differentiated opportunity to serve customers across the material handling and warehouse automation markets.”

“Intelligrated, Trew and Transnorm each bring meaningful strengths, talented teams and longstanding customer relationships,” said Alfred Rebello, Chief Executive Officer of the combined platform. “As we bring these businesses together, our focus will be on combining the best of each organization to deliver stronger capabilities and greater value for our customers. I am excited to work with the teams across all three businesses as we build a more focused, agile and customer-driven warehouse automation platform.”

“AIP is also pleased to continue its partnership with RTV, which began with AIP’s investment in Trew,” added Grainger. “RTV’s deep sector knowledge and founder perspective will be instrumental as we support the next phase of growth for Intelligrated, Trew and Transnorm, with a focus on customer delivery, innovation and operational excellence.”

Evercore acted as exclusive financial advisor to AIP. Ropes & Gray LLP acted as transaction and financing counsel, and Baker Botts LLP acted as regulatory counsel to AIP.

About American Industrial Partners

American Industrial Partners is an operationally oriented industrials investor with approximately $17.8 billion in assets under management. AIP seeks to achieve differentiated returns by investing in quality engineered products businesses with strong management teams and working with those teams to implement transformative Operating Agendas to build long-term value. The AIP team has deep roots in the industrial economy and has actively invested across three economic cycles. AIP has completed over 145 platform and add-on acquisitions and invests in all forms of corporate divestitures, management buyouts, recapitalizations, and going-private transactions of established businesses with sales greater than $500 million. Current AIP portfolio companies generate aggregate annual revenues of approximately $32 billion and employ 74,000+ employees as of March 31, 2026. www.americanindustrial.com

About Intelligrated, Trew and Transnorm

Intelligrated, Trew and Transnorm are leading providers of material handling and warehouse automation solutions. Together, the businesses provide automated sortation systems, palletizers, conveyors, robotics solutions, software, lifecycle services and aftermarket support to customers across e-commerce, retail, parcel, distribution, manufacturing and other end markets. The combined platform is supported by deep engineering expertise, broad installed bases and longstanding customer relationships.

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For American Industrial Partners:
Media Inquiries: American Industrial Partners – Pro-AIP@prosek.com

For Intelligrated, Trew and Transnorm:
Media Inquiries: Dan Gauss – dan@koroberi.com

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Redox and Lapsi Health Collaborate to Bring Industry-Leading AI-Powered Tools Directly Into EHR Workflows

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Fragmented Clinical Workflows Stall Enterprise AI Adoption. Lapsi Health and Redox Connect AI Documentation, Clinical Reference, and Diagnostic Support Directly Into the EHR So Clinicians Never Have to Leave the Chart.

MADISON, Wis. and AMSTERDAM, July 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Redox and Lapsi Health today announced a collaboration aimed at addressing one of healthcare’s biggest challenges: workflow fragmentation.

As health systems and other healthcare organizations rapidly adopt AI technologies, clinicians are often forced to navigate multiple disconnected systems for documentation, clinical research, diagnostics, and patient care. While AI capabilities continue to improve, implementation and adoption stagnate when those tools fail to integrate into existing clinical workflows.

Together, Lapsi Health and Redox are helping healthcare organizations overcome that challenge by connecting the Keikku Clinical Platform with existing EHR infrastructure.

Keikku is an AI clinical platform that combines AI-powered documentation, contextual clinical reference, diagnostic support, and purpose-built clinical hardware within a single connected workflow. As Lapsi Health’s healthcare data interoperability partner, Redox provides a direct path to integrate with health systems’ EHRs, without building each connection from scratch. That’s possible through Redox’s Connection Network, spanning more than 12,000 healthcare organizations and systems, including over 100 EHRs, as well as revenue cycle platforms, state and regional HIEs, and more.

“Healthcare doesn’t need more disconnected AI tools. Teams need solutions that integrate naturally into existing clinical workflows,” said Rodrigo Alvez, Chief Technology Officer at Lapsi Health. “Our collaboration with Redox helps healthcare organizations reduce integration complexity, accelerate implementation, and connect AI-powered clinical intelligence with the systems clinicians already rely on every day.”

Redox recently launched an industry-leading suite of AI capabilities built to help integration teams move faster, reinforcing its role as the healthcare data infrastructure layer that AI-powered applications like Keikku depend on to run in production.

By combining Keikku’s clinical AI platform with Redox’s interoperability capabilities, organizations can simplify implementation and create a more connected clinical experience.

“The question healthcare organizations are asking isn’t whether AI is ready; it’s how to get it running in their production environment without a twelve-month implementation and a dedicated team to maintain it,” said Rachel Witalec, Chief Product Officer at Redox. “What Redox brings to this collaboration is a data infrastructure layer that fast-tracks the hard integration work upfront and keeps it running. That’s the foundation Keikku needs to perform in the real world.”

Through Redox, health systems can integrate Keikku into existing EHR environments, reducing barriers to adoption and enabling clinicians to access documentation, evidence-based clinical support, and diagnostic insights without leaving the chart.

Organizations can deploy Keikku as a software-only platform or with hardware-enabled capabilities that support ambient clinical audio capture and diagnostic auscultation.

About Lapsi Health

Lapsi Health is a Dutch-American clinical AI company building multi-modal intelligence solutions for modern healthcare. Its flagship platform, Keikku, combines AI-powered clinical documentation, contextual clinical reference, diagnostic support, and purpose-built clinical hardware to help healthcare organizations transform patient interactions into connected clinical workflows. Lapsi Health’s mission is to transform how clinicians capture, structure, and act on patient data, moving from isolated signals to integrated clinical intelligence.

For more information, visit www.keikku.health or follow us on LinkedIn.

About Redox

Redox is your healthcare data interoperability partner. We help provider, payer, healthtech, EHR, and medtech organizations power better care with seamless data interoperability. Our secure platform’s read/write capabilities translate, normalize, enrich, and orchestrate complex healthcare data in real time. With a connected network of more than 12,000 organizations, customers use Redox Engine to accelerate connected healthcare across a wide range of systems, applications, and workflows. 

For more information, visit www.redoxengine.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

Media Contact: press@redoxengine.com

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AMP publishes 2025 Sustainability Report

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LUXEMBOURG, July 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMP), a global supplier of sustainable aluminium beverage cans, today published its 2025 Sustainability Report, reaffirming its commitment to environmental stewardship, social impact, and transparent governance while delivering a strong financial performance across the business.

2025 was a strong year for AMP which delivered over 3% year-on-year sales volume growth despite a complex and volatile external environment, while continuing to make progress towards its sustainability goals and reinforcing its commitment to responsible growth and long-term thinking.

Key 2025 Environmental Highlights:

Renewable Electricity: Increased global renewable electricity coverage to 47% – with a 17% increase versus the prior year and strong regional progress (Europe now at 61%, South America at 100% and North America at 20%).GHG Emissions:Scope 1 & 2: 18% combined emissions reduction versus the previous year and a 16% combined emissions reduction versus the 2020 baseline.Scope 3: Achieved a 18% reduction from the 2020 baseline, versus our 2030 target of a 12.3%.Circularity: AMP’s aluminium beverage cans achieved an average recycled content of 76% recycled aluminium, compared with 64% in 2020.Waste and water: A key marker in this space for AMP was the achievement of 100% Zero Waste to Landfill across all AMP facilities; water withdrawal intensity improved by 3.6% from the 2020 baseline year.

Social and Governance Progress:

AMP continued investing in employee development, with nearly 9,500 training courses and more than 10,000 Technical Training assessments delivered. Community involvement programmes noted in the report include biodiversity projects, recycling initiatives and the Ardagh for Education programme, which has now reached more than 110,000 students worldwide. Achieving EcoVadis Platinum status placing AMP among the top 1% of all companies globally, reflecting the strength of our sustainability management systems.

Oliver Graham, CEO of AMP, added: “Our 2025 Sustainability Report demonstrates that at AMP, growth and sustainability can progress together. As demand for aluminium beverage packaging continues to grow, we have continued to reduce environmental impacts, maintain our focus on circularity, and strengthen transparency across our value chain. The report highlights meaningful progress across our key sustainability priorities, including enhancing transparency through our Product Carbon Footprint model. Together, these achievements reflect our commitment to innovation, responsible growth, and collaboration across the value chain.”

The report also serves as a supplement to AMP’s 2026 Communication on Progress (COP) to the UN Global Compact and reinforces the company’s long-term ESG roadmap.

To access AMP’s 2025 Sustainability Report and learn more about its sustainability journey, please click here.

Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMP) is a leading global supplier of sustainable and inherently recyclable metal beverage cans to brand owners globally. An operating business of sustainable packaging business Ardagh Group, AMP is a leading industry player across Europe and the Americas with innovative production capabilities. AMP operates 23 production facilities in nine countries, employing approximately 6,500 people with sales of approximately $5.5 billion in 2025.

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