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Air Liquide announces milestone investment in South Korea to support SK hynix’s advanced AI memory chip project

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PARIS and SEOUL, South Korea, June 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ —  Air Liquide has signed a major long-term contract with SK hynix, a global leader in memory semiconductors. The Group will bring its pioneering solutions to SK hynix’s massive industrial project dedicated to advanced packaging of HBM (High-Bandwidth Memory), the backbone of the global AI revolution. The investment of nearly 200 million euros is a first success following the acquisition of DIG Airgas earlier this year, significantly strengthening its leadership in both the region and the Electronics industry.

In order to supply SK hynix’s new packaging and testing fab “P&T7”, located in Cheongju, in the Chungcheongbuk province, Air Liquide will build and operate a state-of-the-art nitrogen production unit. Set to begin operations in late 2027, the facility will supply high-purity gases and high-purity compressed air to the fab in charge of the advanced packaging of HBM chips, a key component of AI development.

This contract demonstrates the immediate value creation by integrating South Korea’s leading industrial gas provider DIG Airgas into Air Liquide. By combining the Group’s world-class proprietary technologies for ultra-high purity carrier gases with DIG Airgas’s extensive local footprint and deep-rooted customer relationships, Air Liquide has significantly accelerated its growth trajectory and potential in the region. This strategic synergy uniquely positions the Group to lead the rapid evolution of AI-driven semiconductor manufacturing. With this new project, the Group will also significantly expand its footprint in the Cheongju industrial basin, where its teams already operate several plants supporting SK hynix, reinforcing its long-term competitive edge in the South Korean market.

Ronnie Chalmers, Air Liquide Group Vice President, in charge of supervising Asia-Pacific, stated: “This milestone partnership reflects our strong confidence in the South Korean economy and our long-standing commitment to being a preferred partner in the global semiconductor supply chain. Thanks to the integration of DIG Airgas, which brought us a secured portfolio of nearly 20 projects, our teams now combine local agility and global innovation to accelerate Air Liquide’s growth. We are proud to support the ambitions of our partner SK hynix as they play a leading role in the AI revolution.”

Air Liquide in South Korea

Since 1996, Air Liquide has been a key player in South Korea, serving major industries, the home healthcare sector, and the development of the hydrogen economy. Through strategic investments such as its advanced molybdenum manufacturing plant and state-of-the-art rare gases purification unit, Air Liquide is a long-term partner providing innovative and sustainable solutions to the semiconductor industry. Following the landmark acquisition of DIG Airgas in January 2026, Air Liquide has significantly expanded its local infrastructure and expertise. With a dedicated team of 1,200 employees in South Korea, the Group is ideally positioned to meet the growing demand for high-tech manufacturing, healthcare, clean energy and mobility across the country’s largest industrial basins.

 

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Oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, and many other essential small molecules are the invisible pillars of our world and our lives. They have been at the core of the Group’s activities since its creation in 1902.

A world leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and healthcare, Air Liquide acts as the backbone of numerous economic sectors, serving 4.3 million customers and patients across 59 countries with approximately 65,000 employees. With revenues close to 27 billion euros in 2025, Air Liquide combines strong performance and useful growth.

The Group is a leader with a diversified, resilient business model and a strong local footprint across the globe. Through deep engineering expertise and technological innovation, Air Liquide provides scalable solutions that enhance industrial efficiency, accelerate decarbonization, and strengthen value chains. Strategically exposed to growth markets and megatrends, the Group accompanies major industrial and societal transformations to create long term added value and build a sustainable future.

Air Liquide is listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange (compartment A) and belongs to the CAC 40, CAC 40 ESG, EURO STOXX 50, FTSE4Good, and Dow Jones Best-in-Class Europe Index indexes.

 

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Changes in UPM’s Group Executive Team: Joonas Rauramo appointed Executive Vice President, UPM Energy

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UPM-Kymmene Corporation Stock Exchange Release (Changes board/management/auditors) June 3, 2026 at 10:00 EEST

HELSINKI, June 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Joonas Rauramo has been appointed Executive Vice President, UPM Energy. He will be a member of UPM’s Group Executive Team and report to Massimo Reynaudo, President and CEO. He will assume his role on October 1, 2026 and will be based in Helsinki, Finland.

Rauramo, born in 1983, will join UPM from Coolbrook Oy where he has served as CEO since 2022 and prior to that as Executive Vice President, Strategy & Industrial Partnerships. From 2007 to 2021, he held various roles at Fortum, most recently as Vice President, Wind and as Vice President, Solar & Wind Development. He serves as a board member at Korkia, and as a member of the IEA Technology and Innovation Advisory Board. Rauramo has Master of Science in Technology from Helsinki University of Technology and Master of Science in Economics from Aalto University School of Economics. He is a Finnish citizen.

“I’m delighted to welcome Joonas to UPM. He brings extensive experience in power generation and industrial decarbonisation, as well as deep expertise in energy markets, project financing, M&A and building global partnerships. These are capabilities that are increasingly critical as demand for reliable, emission-free electricity continues to grow and the energy system undergoes profound transformation. With Joonas on board, we continue to develop our energy business further and contribute to the transition towards a sustainable and resilient energy future,” says Massimo Reynaudo.

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UPM is a material solutions company, renewing products and entire value chains with an extensive portfolio of renewable fibres, advanced materials, decarbonization solutions, and communication papers. Our performance in sustainability has been recognized by third parties, including EcoVadis and the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices. We operate globally and employ approximately 15,100 people worldwide, with annual sales of approximately €9.7 billion. Our shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd.
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Helsinki Invites International Companies to Explore R&D Partnerships in Life Sciences and AI & Deep Tech

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HELSINKI, June 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Helsinki Partners, together with the City of Helsinki and the University of Helsinki, is inviting international companies to explore research and development partnerships at two of the city’s leading innovation environments. Through the 90 Hour Helsinki Program, senior decision makers from established companies and scaleups are currently exploring Finland’s business ecosystem over three intensive days, meeting relevant organisations and exploring partnership opportunities for AI & Deep Tech R&D.

For many international companies, R&D expansion comes with real barriers: lack of specialist talent, limited access to laboratory or cleanroom space, and the high cost of building local infrastructure. Helsinki innovation partnerships address these challenges directly – instead of investing heavily in facilities and hiring from scratch, companies can get straight to work with partner organisations, researchers, and thesis students.

Helsinki’s innovation clusters drive global breakthroughs

The 90 Hour Helsinki Program gives access to two university-driven innovation clusters: Viikki is a leading ecosystem for life sciences, biotech, and sustainability, and Kumpula for AI and deep tech research. Both clusters align with the University of Helsinki’s Future Technologies research area, which emphasises responsible and ethical approaches to new technologies.

“Our research is rooted in both scientific excellence and responsibility,” said Jouni Hirvonen, Vice-Rector of Innovation, Infrastructures and Facilities at the University of Helsinki. “Collaborating with international companies allows us to commercialise and scale innovations that both advance technology and contribute to sustainable and ethical solutions for society.”

Organisations active across the clusters include the Natural Resources Institute Finland, HiLIFE, the Ellis Institute, the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI), and the LUMI AI Factory. Participants choose the track most relevant to their business and spend the day with researchers, companies, and ecosystem partners on that campus.

R&D without the upfront investment

Finland’s R&D funding landscape and cost-efficient operating environment make Helsinki one of the most practical locations in Europe for early-stage collaboration. For companies outside of the EU region, the city offers a stable European base at a time when trade conditions are shifting, with direct flight connections to major cities across Asia and Americas.

“Helsinki offers a unique environment where companies can directly engage with top research, advanced facilities, emerging talent, and the exciting startup culture,” said Heidi Humala, Director, Business Environment at Business Helsinki, City of Helsinki. “Through close collaboration, Helsinki enables private companies to accelerate their R&D without the need for heavy upfront investments.”

Innovation partnerships in practice

ASM, a global leader in semiconductor equipment, has been working with the University of Helsinki for more than two decades. The company expanded its collaboration in 2022 with the launch of the ALD Center of Excellence, a new centre focused on developing advanced materials for next-generation microchips used in AI systems, medical devices, and energy-efficient electronics.

This long-term partnership is one example of the public-private co-innovation that Helsinki supports, and that the 90 Hour Helsinki Program is designed to build.

“Helsinki is known for its trust-based business culture and functional public–private partnerships,” said Clarisse Berggårdh, CEO at Helsinki Partners. “By joining the 3-day 90 Hour Helsinki Program, companies can experience this culture firsthand and start building meaningful collaborations.”

Applications are now open for the 90 Hour Helsinki Program taking place 28–30 September, 2026. The application period closes on 14 August, 2026.

Read more and apply here.

                                   

                                   

Facts at a glance                           

                                               

•  Helsinki is the most cost-efficient city in Europe for biotech and pharma R&D

                                               

•  The Helsinki region ranks 1st in the EU for innovative SMEs collaborating with others

                                               

•  The region also leads in R&D expenditure in the business sector and international scientific co-publications

                                               

•  The University of Helsinki ranks in the top 1% of universities globally

                                               

•  ASM‘s partnership with the University of Helsinki spans more than 20 years

                                   

                                     

                                   

For more information, please contact:

Eelis Torvinen
Marketing & Communications Manager, Helsinki Partners
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Sonja Malin
Senior Advisor, Helsinki Partners
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About the 90 Hour Helsinki Program and Helsinki Partners

The 90 Hour Helsinki Program, organised by Helsinki Partners, gives senior decision makers direct access to Helsinki’s life sciences and deep tech ecosystems over three intensive days. The programme includes briefings on the Finnish business environment, visits to research organisations and companies, and tailored meetings across the Viikki and Kumpula campuses. Helsinki Partners covers accommodation during the programme for up to four days for one representative per company.

Helsinki Partners is the City of Helsinki’s international investment promotion and city marketing company, providing free expansion services for businesses looking to establish a presence in Finland.

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Corrata Reimagines Mobile Device Security for the AI Era

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Company investing in bespoke on-device LLM for privacy-compliant mobile threat detection as AI reshapes the attack landscape

DUBLIN and LONDON, June 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Infosec Europe, ExCeL London — Corrata, the mobile endpoint security company, today announced a comprehensive reimagining of its approach to mobile device security in response to the rapid transformation of the threat landscape by artificial intelligence. The announcement encompasses new AI governance capabilities, enhanced data loss prevention, and a commitment to developing a bespoke on-device large language model (LLM) for next-generation mobile threat detection.

 

 

“The device in your employee’s pocket is simultaneously connected to AI tools, targeted by AI-powered attackers, and operating in an environment where the threat landscape is being rewritten in real time,” said Colm Healy, CEO of Corrata. “The controls deployed two or three years ago were not built for this world. We have rebuilt ours to match it.”

How AI Is Reshaping the Mobile Threat Landscape

Mobile devices sit at the epicentre of three distinct AI-driven risk dimensions that security teams must now contend with simultaneously.

Hyper-personalised social engineering. AI has transformed phishing from a numbers game into targeted precision. Attackers now use large language models to construct lures from publicly available data, producing messages indistinguishable from genuine communications. Research puts the click-through rate on AI-generated phishing at 54%, against 12% for traditional campaigns. On mobile, where 85% of phishing attacks already occur outside email, across SMS, WhatsApp, Teams and other messaging channels, the impact is acute.

AI-accelerated exploits. In May 2026, Google Threat Intelligence Group confirmed a real-world threat actor had used a zero-day exploit developed with AI, planned for mass exploitation and only stopped by proactive counter-discovery. Finding and weaponising vulnerabilities no longer requires deep expertise or months of effort. The median time from disclosure to active exploitation had already fallen from 771 days in 2018 to single-digit hours before frontier AI models entered the picture. Mobile is particularly exposed, where apps are deployed quickly and sometimes outside the review processes that govern traditional software.

Shadow AI and data loss. When employees find that an AI tool makes them more productive, they use it, approved or not. Research suggests 43% of employees share corporate data with LLMs without authorisation. On mobile, where personal and professional boundaries are already blurred, the exposure is acute: sensitive documents uploaded to consumer AI services, client details pasted into chatbots, proprietary code submitted for debugging. Institutional knowledge is leaving organisations at an unprecedented rate, with no visibility and no controls in place.

How Corrata Is Responding

Corrata has always been built on a simple premise: mobile devices deserve the same depth of security monitoring as laptops and servers. Its on-device architecture inspects 100% of network traffic without routing it through a cloud relay, a visibility advantage no competitor has matched. In the AI era, that foundation becomes more important, not less. Corrata has now extended it across three areas.

On-device LLM for enhanced threat detection. The vast majority of mobile traffic is now encrypted, and current detection methods will struggle against the more sophisticated social engineering and exploit techniques that AI is enabling. Corrata is developing a custom on-device LLM purpose-built for the mobile environment. It will analyse traffic patterns, behavioural signals and connection metadata to surface threats hidden within encrypted sessions, on the device itself, in real time, with no data leaving the phone.

AI governance for the mobile workspace. Corrata’s AI Governance capability lets organisations define which AI services and SDKs are sanctioned in the mobile workspace and enforces those policies automatically. Approved tools are unaffected; access to unsanctioned services, including consumer chatbots, AI coding assistants and embedded LLM SDKs in third-party apps, is flagged or blocked. As AI governance frameworks including ISO 42001 and the EU AI Act mature, mobile is the enforcement gap most organisations have yet to close. Corrata closes it.

Precision mobile DLP for the AI age. Data leakage via mobile is no longer confined to lost devices or unencrypted email. AI tools are now a primary exfiltration channel. Corrata’s enhanced data loss prevention uses fine-grained traffic analysis to detect sensitive corporate data being transmitted to external services, whether deliberately or inadvertently, enabling security teams to act on genuine data loss events rather than chase false positives.

“Corrata brings together the deepest visibility into mobile traffic of any solution on the market with a new generation of AI-native capabilities built for the threats that matter most right now,” said Colm Healy.

Availability

Corrata’s AI Governance and enhanced DLP capabilities are available now. The on-device LLM is in active development, with availability to be announced. Organisations wishing to learn more or request a demonstration should visit corrata.com.

About Corrata

Corrata is a mobile endpoint security company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Its on-device technology delivers comprehensive threat detection and response for iOS and Android devices, combining advanced mobile threat defence with data loss prevention and AI governance. Corrata is a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), verified for use with FirstNet, and is accredited as ‘Cybersecurity Made in Europe’ by ECSO. For more information, visit corrata.com.

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