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Enfuse Group becomes certified as a B Corporation

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1 year ago

November 19, 2024

LONDON, Nov. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Enfuse Group are on a mission to prove that being a high performing consultancy doesn’t have to mean compromising on social and environmental responsibility. As an ambitious multi award-winning digital transformation consultancy, Enfuse Group is delighted to announce that they are now a Certified B Corporation. The assessment measures a business’s ongoing impact on its workers, community and suppliers, customers, governance, and the environment.

Formed in 2015, Enfuse Group works as the trusted partner for digitally ambitious organisations. Working across the transformation lifecycle, Enfuse Group provides clients with a range of services from strategy and operating models to delivery and change management. Enfuse Group has been recognised both as a leading UK consultancy and as a leading employer in the sector, demonstrating its commitment to excellence and responsibility.

The company has been going from strength to strength, with recognition this year in the Sunday Times 100 fastest-growing private companies in Britain, having a staggering 99.4% growth rate. Despite this exceptional growth, the company has not sacrificed its commitment to putting people first, with a specific focus on employee wellbeing. Enfuse Group has comprehensive benefits to enable their employees to manage their health and wellbeing in addition to wellbeing policies that practically support a healthy work-life balance.

The company’s approach to flexible working has been an important element in attracting and retaining great talent. With an informal hybrid working style, employees are empowered to work from the location that suits them best, whether that is from client site, from the office (named Base Camp) or from home, with the directorship leading by example. Despite the team working from different locations, they remain engaged and connected and days together in Base Camp are always popular.

Through this people focussed approach, Enfuse Group are an example of how a company can still be high performing yet still balance profit and growth with social and environmental purpose. Initiatives such as employee volunteer days or in-house sustainability challenges, as well as introducing an employee sustainability handbook has helped to foster a culture where employees are encouraged to consider the wider impact of their work and daily lives. Enfuse strongly believes that employees taking small steps of their own choice whilst the company targets more ambitious goals, ensures that everyone can make a meaningful contribution to their wider social and environmental goals.

Enfuse Group is so proud to meet B Lab’s rigorous standards of social and environmental impact as B Lab’s rigorous standards and join a community of like-minded companies also meeting these high standards. The certification comes after a year of diligent verifications with each submission, but the journey has just begun for the company. Enfuse Group are committed to continuously improving performance for their clients, people, and for the planet; as part of the B-Corp certification they have legally committed to continuously improving their triple bottom line:

People Profit Planet

In recent years, the B Corp certification process has sparked debate, with some questioning the intentions of companies pursuing the status. Enfuse Group has always viewed B Corp certification as more than just a badge – they saw it as a valuable opportunity to evaluate, evolve, and formalise their commitment to positive impact. For Enfuse Group, the certification journey has been a chance to identify areas for growth while building on the strengths they already have. Importantly, it has helped document and create official policies for many of the initiatives Enfuse has long practiced, ensuring they’re embedded into the very fabric of how they operate. By embracing the process as a tool for meaningful change, Enfuse Group reaffirms their dedication to fostering both accountability and excellence in the way we serve their clients, support their team, contribute to their community, and the environment.

Graeme Curwen, CEO, comments “I am extremely proud of this achievement and it represents a huge milestone for us at Enfuse Group. Harry and I started with the vision of building a high-growth, commercially focused consultancy that never lost sight of what matter most — our people, our clients, and the broader community, and we will continue to keep this commitment. This has been over a year in the making and I would like to thank everyone who made this happen.”

This is just the start of Enfuse Group’s B Corp journey, and the company have a strong dedication to continue growing in the right way without compromising their values.

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Chef Robotics Physical AI Models Can Now Automate Baked Goods Packing

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2 hours ago

April 29, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO, April 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Chef Robotics, a leader in physical AI for the food industry, today announced that Chef robots can now automate tray assembly for baked goods packing. The application places baked products, such as burger buns, chocolate chip cookies, biscotti, butter cookies, biscuits, fortune cookies, granola bars, rusks, and shortbreads into trays and packaging containers before sealing.

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Baked goods packing has historically been difficult to automate for high-mix production. Each item behaves differently on the production line—a granola bar compresses under the wrong grip, while a biscotti or rusk can crack if placed at the wrong angle. Surface textures range from glazed and smooth to crumbly and irregular, and strict presentation requirements leave little room for error. This variability has made it challenging for automation systems to reliably handle baked goods at production speeds, leaving food manufacturers dependent on manual labor and traditional bakery equipment.

To address this, Chef built its baked goods packing application on its existing piece-picking capability, which uses Chef’s AI-powered computer vision and physical AI models trained across diverse real-world production environments. This allows Chef robots to assess each item’s position, shape, and orientation in real time and determine how to pick the items from the pan and place them quickly and precisely without damaging them.

The baked goods packing application supports four distinct placement capabilities.

First, Chef’s vision system detects the angle at which each item sits in the pan and reorients it after picking, placing it on the tray at the exact angle required, regardless of its original position, enabling retail-ready presentation for SKUs that require precise angular placement.

Second, Chef robots can place multiple baked goods into the same packaging container in a single automated pass, completing full tray assembly without manual intervention.

Third, for packaging containers with multiple small compartments, Chef robots can precisely place items into each designated section, including multiple items in the same compartment, using Chef’s AI vision model to detect compartment positions and orientations in real time.

Fourth, Chef’s vision system identifies the exact center of each tray and places every item at a predefined offset from that center, ensuring a uniform, consistent arrangement across every pack regardless of how trays arrive on the conveyor.

For food manufacturers evaluating bakery systems and baked goods packaging automation, the application offers higher throughput, reduced labor dependency, and consistent presentation across shifts. The capability runs on Chef’s existing robotic hardware and software, allowing manufacturers to deploy it without requiring any changes to their production lines.

Chef’s baked goods packing application is available in the U.S., Canada, Germany, and the UK and is included as part of Chef’s robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) pricing model.

About Chef Robotics
Chef is the first company to have commercialized a scalable AI-driven food robotics solution. With over 104 million servings made in production, Chef leverages ChefOS, an AI platform for food manipulation, to offer a Robotics-as-a-Service solution that helps industry-leading food companies increase production volume and meet demand. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Chef aims to empower humans to do what humans do best by accelerating the advent of intelligent machines. Visit https://chefrobotics.ai to learn more.

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Chef Robotics Physical AI Models Can Now Automate Baked Goods Packing

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2 hours ago

April 29, 2026

Watch Chef robots in action.

The baked goods packing application supports four distinct placement capabilities.

Second, Chef robots can place multiple baked goods into the same packaging container in a single automated pass, completing full tray assembly without manual intervention.

Chef’s baked goods packing application is available in the U.S., Canada, Germany, and the UK and is included as part of Chef’s robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) pricing model.

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Air Products to Expand Industrial Gas Supply for Samsung Electronics’ Next-Generation Semiconductor Fab in South Korea

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2 hours ago

April 29, 2026

New investment underscores the company’s long-term commitment to Korea and its leading role in the global semiconductor industry

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., April 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Air Products (NYSE:APD), a world-leading industrial gases company and serving Samsung globally, today announced it has been selected by Samsung to supply industrial gases for its new advanced semiconductor fab in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.

Under the agreement, Air Products will build, own and operate multiple state-of-the-art production facilities and a bulk specialty gas supply system to supply nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and hydrogen for Samsung’s new semiconductor fab. The new facilities are expected to come onstream in multiple phases from 2028 through 2030.

Air Products has a long track record of executing multiple phase expansions in Pyeongtaek to support Samsung’s growing manufacturing needs. This latest project represents Air Products’ largest investment to date in the semiconductor industry and will establish Pyeongtaek as the company’s single largest operations site globally supporting the electronics industry.

“Air Products is honored to be selected once again by Samsung and to have their continued confidence as a trusted partner supporting their strategic growth plans,” said SR Kim, President, Air Products Korea. “This significant investment reinforces Air Products’ role as a leading global supplier to the semiconductor industry and underscores our long-standing commitment to supporting our strategic customers with safety, reliability, efficiency and excellent service.”

Air Products has served the global electronics industry for more than 40 years, supplying industrial gases safely and reliably to many of the world’s leading technology companies. The company has operated in Korea for more than 50 years and has established a strong position in electronics and manufacturing sectors.

About Air Products

Air Products (NYSE: APD) is a world-leading industrial gases company in operation for over 85 years focused on serving energy, environmental, and emerging markets and generating a cleaner future. The Company supplies essential industrial gases, related equipment and applications expertise to customers in dozens of industries, including refining, chemicals, metals, electronics, manufacturing, medical and food. As the leading global supplier of hydrogen, Air Products also develops, engineers, builds, owns and operates some of the world’s largest clean hydrogen projects, supporting the transition to low- and zero-carbon energy in the industrial and heavy-duty transportation sectors. Through its sale of equipment businesses, the Company also provides turbomachinery, membrane systems and cryogenic containers globally.

Air Products had fiscal 2025 sales of $12 billion from operations in approximately 50 countries. For more information, visit airproducts.com or follow us on LinkedIn, X, Facebook or Instagram.

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