SEOUL, South Korea, July 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Hanon Systems (KS:018880), a leading global automotive thermal management solutions provider and a member of Hankook & Company Group, has published a white paper highlighting the company’s next-generation PFAS-free natural refrigerant technologies.

The paper highlights the environmental limitations of conventional fluorinated refrigerants and outlines a roadmap toward natural refrigerant technologies as a sustainable alternative. It comes at a time when the automotive industry is increasingly focused on long-term environmental sustainability. Widely used refrigerants like R1234yf can transform into trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a long-lasting environmental contaminant, driving the need for viable long-term solutions.

To address these challenges, Hanon Systems presents its progress in developing natural refrigerant technologies based on carbon dioxide (R744) and propane (R290). Building on the successful introduction to the market of its R744-based technology – including electric compressors, refrigerant valves, accumulator/internal heat exchangers and gas coolers – already deployed in more than one million vehicles, the company is also advancing R290-based solutions as a PFAS-free alternative for future mobility.

“The publication of this white paper reflects Hanon Systems’ strong technological capacities and its commitment to proactively addressing evolving global regulations,” said Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hanon Systems, Soo Il Lee. “Natural refrigerant technologies offer effective solutions to the PFAS related and environmental challenges facing our industry. We will continue to collaborate closely with global automakers to advance sustainable mobility solutions.”

The document is available for download on hanonsystems.com.

About Hanon Systems

Hanon Systems, founded in 1986, is a global leader in thermal management solutions. In January 2025, it became a subsidiary of Hankook & Company Group. Its offering includes a wide range of solutions in the areas of heating, ventilation and air conditioning, powertrain cooling, compressor, fluid transport, and electronics and fluid pressure. The company currently operates 50 manufacturing sites and three regional innovation centers and employs more than 20,000 people across 21 countries. To learn more, visit hanonsystems.com.

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A unique opportunity for organizations and leaders to exchange cross-industry best practices on leadership, AI, inclusion and success at the world’s leading forum for women in leadership and all intent on career success.

SINGAPORE, July 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — House of Rose Professional Pte. Ltd. (HORP) today announced that several of its 2026 Break the ceiling touch the sky® Asia’s Most Inspirational women in leadership and the 2026 Break the ceiling touch the sky® Global Male Champions for gender equality will share their best practices for leadership and success at the 2026 Asia World Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky® – the success and leadership summit for women and male allies, on Oct 12, 2026 in Singapore. Executives from across the most successful companies, entrepreneurs and representatives from the social sector will come together at the summit on Oct 12 to learn, network and achieve together, leveraging cross industry best practices impossible for individual companies to learn alone.

Delegates at the summit will be treated to actionable insights and best practices on high performance leadership, AI for good, accelerated career paths, success secrets of the most inspirational women, and inclusive leadership that builds better business and a better world. HORP’s acclaimed speed mentoring module will once again be leveraged at the summit to enable a high level of interaction between delegates and speakers.

The summit will also be the occasion to celebrate the 2026 BTCTTS Asia’s Most Inspirational Women and the 2026 BTCTTS Global Male Champions for gender equality.

Early speakers at the summit include:

Scott Price, Group Chief Executive, DFI Retail GroupBillie Tan, President International Sales and Solutions, APAC and EMEA, UPSPhilip Forrest, Former Asia Head, ANZ Bank. Independent Director – James Cook University Singapore, Readymix Holdings International, Grand Banks Yachts Limited Jerrica Chooi, Country Holding Officer, Singapore, ABBBita Seow, Chief Executive Officer, Singapore International Chamber of Commerce (SICC) Joanne Soo, Member of the Singapore all-women team that successfully summited Mt. Everest and Managing Director, Ace Adventure Expeditions Pte. Ltd. Shilpa Sinha, Chief Strategy Officer (Global Markets) for L’Oreal, McCannJoy Jinghui Xu, Group Chief People and Culture Officer (Group CHRO), DFI Retail Group Alex von Behr, Former Global Chief Customer Officer, Unilever Plc. President, vBAssociates and Head of the CEOSmith® vertical at House of Rose Professional Pte. Ltd. Vijayanand Sinha, Former Regional CEO & SVP – ASEAN, ReckittAnthony Rose, Chairman and CEO, House of Rose Professional and best-selling author of “Break the ceiling touch the sky: success secrets of the world’s most inspirational women”, “How to get, grow and succeed in your Dream Job” and “Daddy’s Logic”

The summit has as its Industry Partners the most prestigious business chambers including Singapore International Chamber of Commerce (SICC), AmCham, BritCham, EuroCham, Swisscham, CEEC, EU-Asean Business Council, New Zealand Chamber, French Chamber, etc.

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The Asia World Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky® is a must-attend for every leader intent on succeeding in a rapidly changing world in which research continues to show that Gender balanced led companies are vastly outperforming non gender balanced led companies. According to House of Rose Professional’s 2026 Break the ceiling touch the sky Global Index (BTC 101 Global Index) which includes the Top 101 Best gender balanced ranked companies across the world’s 500 largest Companies:

73% of BTC 101 Index companies reported year-over-year revenue growth, compared to 60% of non-Index companies52% of BTC 101 Index companies reported year-over-year profit growth, compared to 47% of non-Index companiesIn the bottom 100 amongst non-Index Companies, only 48% grew revenue versus year ago and only 44% grew profit 

Scott Price, Group Chief Executive, DFI Retail Group commented, “A majority of our customers are female. We are a leading Asian retailer delivering quality, value and exceptional service through leading brands, a compelling retail experience and a commitment to sustainability. We are focused on helping our customers make the most of every dollar they spend with us. Unleashing a diverse and inclusive workforce is critical to this mission. We benefit from sharing our leadership best practices and also learning from the best practices of other great companies participating at Break the ceiling touch the sky.” 

Billie Tan, President International Sales and Solutions, APAC and EMEA, UPS and a nominee for the 2026 Break the ceiling touch the sky® Asia’s Most Inspirational women in leadership listing shared “Thank you so much for this incredibly meaningful recognition. I’m truly honoured to be included among such an inspiring group of leaders, and I deeply appreciate the work you and the House of Rose Professional team are doing to advance women into the C-suite and beyond. I look forward to celebrating with the cohort in October and to being part of the conversations at the summit.”

Concluded Anthony A. Rose, Chairman and CEO of House of Rose Professional Pte. Ltd. and author of the book Break the Ceiling Touch the Sky: success secrets of the world’s most inspirational women which inspired the summit, “The 2026 Asia World Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky® is a unique opportunity for individuals and companies of all sizes to learn from the world’s most successful companies on leadership and success in a safe, collaborative environment where speakers and delegates interact freely and can learn, connect and develop new skills and strategies to succeed in a dynamic world.”

Since 2014, House of Rose Professional has enabled the success of over 70,000 leaders across over 750 companies globally via 42 international editions of Break the Ceiling Touch the Sky®, and HORP’s other verticals – CEOSmith®- the executive excellence program for senior leaders; and BeliEVE® – HORP’s bespoke executive search vertical. The three verticals together support HORP’S Mission 2029 for a Better World – a global initiative focused on unleashing the highest performing talent – both female and male to lead at the top of the world’s largest companies and shape a better, more equal world.

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SHENZHEN, China, July 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MGI’s subsidiary, Genoria AI, in collaboration with the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, today announced the launch of two breakthrough innovations that close the gap between digital intelligence and physical execution in biology: ProtoPilot, a self-evolving multi-agent system driven by real-world laboratory scenarios; and BioLab Bench, the industry’s first comprehensive evaluation framework that assesses AI agents from user requirements to executable device operations.

Together, these innovations establish a new paradigm—Physical AI for life sciences—where intelligent agents do not merely generate textual answers but translate experimental intent into physically executable, verifiable, and reproducible actions on automated lab platforms. The research behind it was published as a preprint on arXiv (arXiv:2606.31763) in June 2026.

ProtoPilot is a self-evolving multi-agent system that covers the entire experimental lifecycle:
Design2Protocol → Protocol2Code → Device Execution → Wet-Lab Feedback

It learns from failure. When a PCA assembly step failed, ProtoPilot diagnosed the issue (antibiotic resistance screening failure) and autonomously regenerated a corrected protocol—proving true Physical AI is here.

On ProtocolQA, one of the most representative public benchmarks for evaluating AI experimental reasoning capabilities (built by AI4S leader Future House):

GPT-5.6-sol scored 43.5%Human expert level stands at 54%ProtoPilot achieved 52.38% —approaching expert-level performance!

BioLab Bench sets a new industry standard. It’s the first evaluation system that measures not just “correct answers,” but whether an agent can actually execute tasks on real automation equipment.

Key features include:

Real-World Task Coverage: BioLab Bench spans from fundamental operations to complex multi-step workflows, stratified across three difficulty levels (L1–L3).Full-Chain Assessment: Rather than merely checking whether an agent generates a plausible protocol, BioLab Bench evaluates each step—intent interpretation, protocol design, device-agnostic SOP generation, device-specific SOP translation, machine code production, and successful execution gate verification.Cross-Device Transferability: The benchmark can be deployed on different automated laboratory platforms to test whether an AI agent can comprehend experimental tasks and generate executable actions adapted to varying hardware configurations, thus assessing cross-device generalization capability.

Moving forward, BioAgents will no longer improve solely through text-based training. Instead, through the PhysicalAI experimental loop, they will continuously accumulate real research tasks, automation operations, expert validations, failure cases, and wet-lab feedback. This massive corpus of physical experimental data will enable BioAgents to develop integrated reasoning, execution, and validation capabilities—ultimately powering 7×24 unattended intelligent laboratories.

MGI’s exploration of AI dates back to 2019. In 2025, the team led by Dr. Yang Meng, Chief AI Officer of MGI, in collaboration with Professor Nattiya Hirankarn from Chulalongkorn University, published a paper in Nature Biomedical Engineering introducing “PrimeGen”—a dry–wet collaborative multi-agent system that integrated primer design, experimental validation, and automated workstation execution into a closed-loop workflow.

In April 2026, MGI established Genoria AI as a dedicated subsidiary focused on AI for Science (AI4S), with a mission to build dry–wet closed-loop infrastructure for the life sciences.

The new Physical AI initiative builds on MGI’s unique strengths in hardware-native advantages with deep integration across its automation platforms, and real-world deployment expertise gained from over 3,800 users globally.

“It reflects a different path from the pure compute race. While leading AI companies rely on scale compute to push the capabilities of general-purpose models, we take a different approach. Through agent scaling and closed-loop data engineering, we organize real-world tasks, device constraints, expert feedback, and wet-lab results into a training ground where AI continuously evolves.” Noted Dr. Yang Meng, now serving as CEO in Genoria AI.

About Genoria AI

Genoria AI, a subsidiary of MGI Tech, is an AI4S company building self-evolving labs to scale agentic discovery. Learn more: https://www.genoria.ai/en

About Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

The Shanghai AI Laboratory was officially unveiled at the World AI Conference (WAIC) in July 2020 and positioned as a national-level new-type research institute. Our vision is to build a world-class AI laboratory, with pioneering contributions on original theories and key technologies. By gathering top talents from around the world and creating a stimulating and collaborative research environment, the Laboratory aims to conduct original and influential research, make fundamental contributions to basic theories, significantly advance the state of the art, and create remarkable impact on industry, healthcare, and education. Learn more: https://www.shlab.org.cn/

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