BERLIN, Sept. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Dreame Technology, a global leader in smart home innovation, unveiled its premium flagship AI Dual-Inverter Washer & Dryer Set L9 at IFA 2025 in Berlin. Dreame L9, equipped with world-first innovations, showcased Dreame’s pioneering breakthroughs in premium smart laundry care.

As the pinnacle of Dreame’s high-end laundry lineup, L9 sets the benchmark for the upcoming smart laundry with three world-first technologies: Dual Inverter Drying, PressFree Steam Care, and FreshLoop Plasma Air Circulation. With its fast steam, efficient drying and auto-care, L9 delivers a fully reimagined premium laundry experience for users.

Powered by Dual Inverter Heat Pump Technology, L9 dryer realizes high performance with ultimate comfort in drying. Its self-developed dual inverter system enables the efficient coordination of compressor and motor, delivering a rapid drying of 1kg load in just 30 minutes, with an air volume of up to 200m³/h. 

For one of the most time-consuming chores—ironing, L9 introduces a breakthrough solution: PressFree Steam Care.Dense steam molecules instantly penetrate deep into every fiber, smoothing wrinkles in just 25 minutes so that suits regain their distinguished structure and shirts their refined finish.

L9 also anticipates a common everyday challenge: forgetting to remove laundry promptly. With FreshLoop Plasma Air Circulation, garments remain gently cared for up to 12 hours after the wash, softly tumbling while continuously infused with plasma fresh air to prevent wrinkles and odors.

Dreame L9 embodies minimalist aesthetics in both design and interaction. Its seamlessly-integrated body with premium glass panels allows the washer to blend effortlessly into living space, making it an ideal choice for sophisticated homes. On the interaction front, L9 introduces the bionic robotic knob which combines rotation and touch into a single intuitive control, complemented by millisecond-level feedback and high-definition display for a smooth user experience.

Meanwhile, Dreame showcased a range of high-end new products including the garment steamer and the lingerie washer-dryer—forming a comprehensive smart laundry ecosystem alongside L9 for the global market. 

This debut not only represents the culmination of Dreame’s achievements in research, technology, and design but also reflects Dreame’s insight into the future of the global laundry industry. Dreame will continue to lead with innovation, advancing premium smart laundry solutions and delivering superior lifestyle value to global users—reshaping the future of the industry.

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SINGAPORE, Sept. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Aztech Global Ltd. (“Aztech“) has been recognised as a winner of the Singapore’s Best Managed Companies 2025 awards programme. This prestigious award, presented by Deloitte Private, honours outstanding private¹ businesses for their exceptional performance, leadership, and contributions to their industries and communities. The Best Managed Companies programme celebrates organisations that demonstrate excellence in strategy, capability, innovation, culture, and governance.

This year marks Aztech’s second consecutive win of the Best Managed Companies accolade, a testament to the company’s resilient operating model, disciplined execution, and value-driven innovation, as it deepens its role as a dependable, technology-enabled manufacturing partner for AI-powered IoT solutions across diverse market segments.

Aztech’s Chairman and CEO Mr Michael Mun commented, “We are proud to be recognised once again as one of Singapore’s Best Managed Companies. This honour reflects our team’s dedication to innovation, excellence, and sustainable growth. Being part of this distinguished community motivates us to keep pushing boundaries and creating value for our customers, partners, and stakeholders – as we adapt and build for long-term success.”

As one of Singapore’s leading business awards, the Best Managed Companies programme highlights the critical role private companies play as innovators and key contributors to the nation’s economic growth. Each year, aspirational companies undergo a rigorous, independent evaluation based on Deloitte’s global Best Managed Companies framework, benchmarked against more than 1,700 Best Managed Companies around the world.

“As a Best Managed Companies award winner, Aztech has distinguished itself as an exceptional private enterprise in Singapore that is driving sustainable growth, championing innovation, and creating meaningful impact for customers and employees. This award should be viewed as a mark of excellence, recognising Aztech’s leadership and strategic vision. We look forward to their continued growth and success in Singapore and beyond,” said CHUA How Kiat, Best Managed Companies Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia.

Best Managed Companies programme is a flagship initiative presented by Deloitte Private, a division of Deloitte focused exclusively on serving privately owned businesses and family enterprises.

SINGAPORE, Sept. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Otis (NYSE: OTIS), the world’s leading elevator and escalator manufacturing, installation and service company, has received a 2025 SMRT Contractors’ Safety Award for upholding the highest standards in health and safety and service management across Singapore’s SMRT rail network.

Otis was the only elevator industry contractor to receive the award, which was presented at the 2025 SMRT Annual Contractors’ Safety Forum. The forum featured a keynote address by Seah Moon Ming, SMRT Chairman. 

At the event, Nico Lopez, Otis Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Southeast Asia, shared how Otis empowers front-line teams to strongly commit to safety, quality and pace.

“The rail network is the backbone of public transport in Singapore, and the safety and well-being of passengers and our colleagues are our top priority,” Lopez said. “Safety is the foundation of everything we do at Otis. Whether maintaining and servicing elevators and escalators, modernizing existing systems or installing new equipment, we invest to ensure that Otis teams have the customer-focused training, tools and mindset to keep themselves, their colleagues and partners, and the riding public safe.”

A trusted partner to Singapore’s rail network since 1983, Otis has supported multiple MRT lines over four decades. Otis currently maintains more than 1,000 elevators, escalators and moving walkways across SMRT’s North-South, East-West (NSEW) Lines, Circle Line (CCL) and Thomson East Coast Line (Stages 1, 2 and 3). Otis provides comprehensive 24/7 customer service through its OTISLINE® customer care center and a team of dedicated Infrastructure Service professionals equipped with a suite of digital tools.

The refurbishment of escalators across 42 NSEW metro stations was recognized as Elevator World‘s 2024 Project of the Year for escalator modernization. Otis is now providing 336 high-traffic escalators and moving walkways and 186 connected elevators for the new Cross Island Line.

About Otis

Otis gives people freedom to connect and thrive in a taller, faster, smarter world. The global leader in the manufacture, installation and servicing of elevators and escalators, we move 2.4 billion people a day and maintain approximately 2.4 million customer units worldwide – the industry’s largest Service portfolio. You’ll find us in the world’s most iconic structures, as well as residential and commercial buildings, transportation hubs and everywhere people are on the move. Headquartered in Connecticut, USA, Otis is 72,000 people strong, including 44,000 field professionals, all committed to manufacturing, installing and maintaining products to meet the diverse needs of our customers and passengers in more than 200 countries and territories. To learn more, visit www.otis.com and follow us on LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook @OtisElevatorCo. 

New native integration simplifies, strengthens, and scales enterprise SMS

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sept. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Global cloud communications platform Infobip has announced the expansion of its integration with Microsoft Azure Communication Services, enabling its advanced SMS interface to connect businesses with customers in more than 100 additional countries. This collaboration unites Infobip’s carrier-grade global messaging with Microsoft’s communications platform, empowering organizations to deliver secure, high-quality, and compliant messages worldwide.

As enterprises face increasing complexity in customer engagement, SMS remains a trusted and vital channel, particularly for critical communications such as authentication, real-time alerts and notifications. With the new Infobip Messaging Connect integration, businesses can now leverage Infobip’s global carrier connectivity, compliance expertise, and technical support, directly within Azure Communication Services.

The unified platform offers streamlined carrier management through APIs, regulatory compliance, and international SMS delivery, improving operational efficiency and message delivery rates. Businesses also benefit from real-time analytics and end-to-end support for high-priority interactions, helping them keep customers informed, engaged, and connected at every step.

Veselin Vuković, Chief Alliances Officer at Infobip, said: “Integrating Infobip’s SMS channels through the Messaging Connect Integration underscores our commitment to empowering cloud platforms with truly global, reliable, and high-quality communication capabilities. In today’s era of AI and automation, we are not only connecting businesses and customers, but we are also enabling conversations that drive impact.“

Diego Basantes, Senior Product Manager for Messaging Connect at Microsoft, said: “This new integration between Microsoft Azure Communication Services and Infobip marks a step forward for the next generation of cloud-based customer engagement solutions. We are creating new opportunities for businesses to connect with customers in simpler ways, helping them deliver seamless interactions.”

Infobip is a partner of Microsoft, building on a history of collaboration in cloud-based communication services. This launch enables further feature and channel integrations between Infobip and Azure.

About Infobip
Infobip is a global cloud communications platform that enables businesses to build connected experiences across all stages of the customer journey. Accessed through a single platform, Infobip’s omnichannel engagement, identity, user authentication and contact centre solutions help businesses and partners overcome the complexity of consumer communications to grow business and increase loyalty. It offers natively built technology with the capacity to reach over seven billion mobile devices and ‘things’ in 6 continents connected to over 9,700+ connections of which 800+ are direct operator connections. Infobip was established in 2006 and is led by its co-founders, CEO Silvio Kutić and Izabel Jelenić.

Recent award wins include:

• Infobip named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) for the third consecutive year. In 2025, positioned furthest in Completeness of Vision (July 2025)
• Infobip named among Top 75 in Fortune’s Europe’s Most Innovative Companies 2025, placing it in the top 25% of all listed organizations (June 2025)
• Infobip ranked as a Leader in the Omdia CPaaS Universe Report for the third time (April 2025)
• Infobip ranked an Established Leader in the Juniper Research Conversational AI Leaderboard (Feb 2025)
• Infobip named a CPaaS Leader for the third time in the IDC MarketScape (Feb 2025)
• Infobip named one of the top CPaaS providers in Metrigy’s CPaaS MetriRank Report (Dec 2024)
• Infobip named number one among Established Leaders in RCS Business Messaging in Juniper Research’s RCS Business Messaging Competitor Leaderboard 2024 (Nov 2024)
• Infobip recognized as the number one provider in the AIT Fraud Prevention market by Juniper Research (Oct 2024)
• Infobip named to Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (March 2024)