Where Function Meets Aesthetics, Narwal Flow 2 White Merges Flagship-Grade Cleaning with Detail-Driven Design

NEW YORK, July 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Narwal, a global leader in smart home cleaning, today unveiled the Narwal Flow 2 White – a new, distinct colorway of its 2026 flagship robot vacuum and mop launching on July 16. Built on a philosophy that the best home technology is powerful yet unobtrusive, engineered yet beautiful, the Flow 2 White is designed to be not just a smart home device but a piece of home decor that earns its place in any room.

Designed to Blend In – A Finish Built for Modern Living

Interiors have grown lighter with trending Scandinavian minimalism, cream and oat palettes, pale hardwood, and open-plan layouts. Spaces built on warmth, restraint, and calm have gained popularity. In these environments, a white finish feels like a natural extension of the space — quiet, considered, and visually at ease. With quiet luxury becoming a defining principle of modern home design, Narwal brings a refined white touch to its well-acclaimed flagship model for consumers who prioritize design just as much as technical specs.

White is not just a simple repaint, but a reflection of Narwal’s philosophy of how a cleaning robot vacuum should appear in a modern home.

• Frosted Glass-textured Front Panel: The base station’s front panel features a subtle frosted glass texture that catches, deflects, and softens light rather than absorbing it. A fingerprint-resistant surface helps the dock maintain a clean, refined look over time. 
• Ambient Status Light Bar: A slim band of light surrounding the front panel adds a quiet visual rhythm to the unit and communicates the robot’s current status, transforming technology into design language.
• Sleek Silhouette: The semi-enclosed base station creates spatial depth and lightness while positioning the robot and the base station as a whole rather than two separate entities.

Designed to Power Through – “Invisible” Device Delivering The Most Visible Results

Behind the refined exterior lies Narwal’s flagship innovations. Carrying the same award-winning cleaning performance as the black original, the Flow 2 White features the proprietary FlowWash™ Mopping System, which uses a high-speed track mop that rotates at over 100 times per minute and delivers 140°F heated water to keep the mop clean throughout each cycle. This “treadmill-style” real-time self-cleaning mopping maximizes cleaning efficiency and quality, easily handling the toughest stains, from kitchen grease to muddy pet footprints, without spreading dirt across the floor.

The Flow 2 White is powered by the pioneering NarMind Pro Autonomous System, which pairs an onboard AI processor with a cloud-based VLM Omni Model to achieve unlimited object recognition. The robot delivers advanced smart obstacle avoidance that adapts cleaning strategies to detected debris, improves edge coverage by 15%, boosts overall cleaning efficiency by 20%, and significantly reduces the need for human intervention. This hybrid AI model further empowers scenario-based cleaning modes: Pet Mode automatically detects pet-active areas for deeper cleaning and helps users locate pets remotely with the Find My Pet feature; Baby Mode ensures ultra-quiet, disturbance-free operation at just 56.48 dB near cribs, with toy recognition built in; and AI Floor Tag identifies valuable objects and sends detection alerts via the mobile app.

To deliver a truly luxurious and hands-free cleaning experience, the Flow 2 White has an upgraded 31,000Pa suction power with CarpetFocus technology, a certified detangling system for 0% hair tangling, 3D color mapping for enhanced mobile control and interactivity, and a fully automated self-emptying base station with up to 120 days of maintenance-free use. Altogether, the vacuum operates quietly in the background without human intervention, living up to the “quiet luxury” promise.

Pricing and Availability

The Narwal Flow 2 White will be available starting July 16 on the Narwal website and on Amazon, with an introductory launch price of $1,099.99 ($400 off the $1,499.99 MSRP), valid through July 31. Ahead of the official launch, Narwal is offering a limited early-access sign-up program on its website: the first 300 registrants receive a $30 credit toward their purchase, followed by a $20 credit for the next 700 sign-ups. Spots at each tier are limited and fill in real time.

About Narwal

Narwal is dedicated to developing innovative products that transform daily life. Our range of solutions addresses common challenges, with a focus on understanding and meeting user needs through extensive R&D. This commitment has yielded industry firsts such as the Auto-washing mop, AI-powered DirtSense™, and the DualFlow Tangle-Free System. We obsess over every detail to ensure our products are both functional and aesthetically pleasing, blending design and performance for a better daily life. As a top-five global vacuum brand, Narwal serves over 5 million users across 30 countries, including North America, South Korea, Germany, and Australia. Our innovations have been honored with awards such as the CES Innovation Awards, the Edison Gold Award, and Time Magazine’s Best Inventions.

Under the strategic alliance, UST will combine Anthropic’s Claude models with UST’s proprietary industry and horizontal platforms, engineering services, domain solutions, and internal operations, helping clients modernize and transform core systems and operationalize trusted AI at scale.

MELBOURNE, Australia, July 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — UST, a leading AI and technology transformation solutions company, today announced a strategic alliance with Anthropic, the AI safety and research company behind the Claude family of models. The partnership is focused on helping Global 1000 enterprises become AI-native. UST will embed Claude into the engineering environments and operational workflows it designs, builds, and runs for clients — helping organizations move from isolated AI pilots to trusted, enterprise-scale AI embedded in the systems that drive their business.

The alliance combines Claude models with UST’s implementation, engineering, and domain expertise, enabling customers to adopt Claude more quickly and responsibly within existing enterprise environments.

Rooted in a shared commitment to responsible AI, the alliance strengthens UST’s position as a Global Premier Partner in the Claude Partner Network Services Tier and expands UST’s ability to help organizations move from experimentation to trusted, large-scale deployment. By combining Claude models with UST’s engineering expertise, deep industry knowledge, and global delivery model, customers can adopt Claude with greater confidence across complex enterprise environments.

Claude for Physical AI: Enhancing UST’s Engineering Platforms

UST is integrating Claude into the engineering platforms that semiconductor, automotive, manufacturing, telecom, embedded, and IoT companies use for design verification, semiconductor validation, factory operations, and field service. This will enable teams to catch design flaws earlier, speed up chip validation, and integrate hardware and software into a single system from the factory floor to the field. These processes are foundational to physical AI, moving intelligence off the screen and into the equipment and robotics that run production.

UST-iDEC is one of the clearest examples. The platform already changes the economics of hardware and silicon validation, cutting cycle times by 50–70% and compressing standard four-day turnarounds into 48 hours through a closed-loop, agentic validation pipeline. UST is now integrating Claude as the reasoning layer into that pipeline to further extend it. Claude Code reads chip pinouts and hardware schematics natively and writes and runs regression test scripts that engineers previously scripted by hand, while Claude’s reasoning models compare live edge data against digital twins to flag firmware regressions and signal-integrity faults.

UST is targeting an already-fast validation pipeline that gets even faster, with less manual scripting, earlier fault detection, without adding new tools for engineers.

UST Platform solutions accelerated by Claude for Industry and Enterprise Workflows

UST will integrate Claude into selected industry platforms and horizontal enterprise platforms. Together, these integrations will give clients a consistent way to apply AI across industry-specific and shared enterprise workflows where accuracy, data protection, compliance, and reliability are critical.

Healthcare Payer: UST CarePath uses Claude to streamline member services, care management, and claims workflows, giving care teams a single, real-time view. Claude Code and MCP connectors link the platform directly to claims and care management systems, while an agentic layer routes each recommended action for approval before it reaches a member. The platform will help teams turn healthcare data into clear next steps, improve patient and member engagement, and resolve issues faster while staying within healthcare data governance controls.

Telecom: UST IntelliOps will bring Claude into network operations, service assurance, and OSS/BSS modernization. The platform has Claude’s reasoning layer wired in to help operators identify service issues, predict RAN failures, and reduce outage duration through approved response workflows and secure system integrations. This gives telecom operators fewer SLA penalties, shorter customer-facing outages, and less time NOC teams spend sorting signal from noise.

Banking: Most mid-tier banks still run on core systems built for overnight batch processing, not real-time banking. Every new integration or product change requires months of vendor-dependent work. UST FinX connects legacy banking systems to a single modern, real-time platform built for open banking and API-first integration. Claude drives the platform’s AI capabilities, accelerating onboarding, automating document processing, and providing staff with faster access to account and compliance data, all within FinX’s built-in governance and audit controls. That’s what lets a bank modernize without hiring a bigger compliance team just to keep up.

Scaling Claude Across UST’s Horizontal Platforms and Industries

UST puts Claude to work everywhere clients feel the friction of change. In consulting, teams use Claude to redesign workflows and transformation roadmaps, helping enterprises adopt AI across functions and make change management repeatable rather than a one-off project. In business applications, Claude Code and approved MCP connectors handle configuration by hand, writing integration logic and letting teams describe what they need in plain language. In data and automation, Claude builds pipelines, accelerates analysis, and coordinates end-to-end handoffs between systems that once required manual stitching. In cloud, infrastructure, and security, Claude supports migration planning, writes infrastructure as code, checks it against policy before it ships, and helps teams get to the bottom of an incident faster, all under the same governance running across the alliance. Looking ahead, UST will also bring Claude into its retail, consumer goods, and manufacturing platforms to sharpen merchandising and inventory planning, strengthen digital commerce, and improve supply chain execution.

UST’s Own Operations, Accelerated by Claude

UST already applies AI across its own operations and continues to expand its use of Claude and Claude Cowork. Within UST, deploying these capabilities across contracts, legal, talent, marketing, infrastructure, and finance demonstrates a commitment to innovation and operational excellence.  Teams are transforming manual processes into reusable, Claude-native workflows and developing role-specific Claude skills to support key functions. These workflows operate with clear guardrails and human oversight at critical points, ensuring that automation supports accountability and informed judgment alongside speed. The result is more consistent operations and more time for employees to focus on judgment, negotiation, client work, and creative problem-solving. The impact is twofold. Operations run faster and cleaner, and people gain time for decisions, negotiations, and imagination that drive growth.

By gaining firsthand experience with the operational, technical, and change management challenges of AI adoption, UST is building the foundation for how it helps customers reimagine their enterprise transformation. That experience is evolving into an operating playbook of tested workflows, governance models, and value frameworks, proven within a complex organization and designed to accelerate time-to-value while managing financial and operational risk.

UST commits to training 20,000 developers and industry experts equipped to build with Claude at enterprise scale

A core pillar of this alliance is powering UST’s transformation into an AI–native company, starting with how UST works internally, not just what it delivers to clients. As part of the alliance, UST plans to certify 20,000 associates worldwide on Claude, across roles from architects and engineers to consultants, industry specialists, and forward–deployed engineers who can sit alongside client teams to think, build, and solve problems every day. This reflects UST’s continued emphasis on talent enablement, grounded in its core values of Humility, Humanity, and Integrity, while developing a growing community of AI–native developers, FDE–style practitioners, architects, and industry experts equipped to build with Claude at enterprise scale.

UST will build specialized teams to deploy Claude, with support from Anthropic enablement, technical guidance, and certification.

“Our alliance with Anthropic reflects UST’s unwavering commitment to helping clients navigate the AI landscape with confidence and achieve meaningful business outcomes. By combining the capabilities of Claude with UST’s engineering, industry knowledge, and delivery expertise, we are bringing to market industry-specific platforms and digital and engineering solutions that improve productivity, accelerate business outcomes, and help clients operationalize AI-led decisions in a safe and secure environment,” said Krishna Sudheendra, Chief Executive Officer, UST.

“UST helps the world’s banks, telecoms, and manufacturers put new technology to work. They’re proving Claude inside their own engineering first, training 20,000 of their own people on it, before bringing it into the systems they build and run for clients,” said Paul Smith, Chief Commercial Officer, Anthropic.

“We are wiring Claude into how UST designs, builds, and runs solutions across our consulting, platforms, engineering services, and industry offerings. This alliance with Anthropic helps us deliver higher-value outcomes for clients while advancing UST’s transformation into an AI-native organization built on trust, human oversight, and long-term impact,” said Manu Gopinath, President, UST.

About Anthropic

Anthropic is an AI safety company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Founded as a public benefit corporation, Anthropic develops the Claude family of AI models and products, including Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and Claude Enterprise, used by organizations around the world. For more information, visit anthropic.com

About UST

Since 1999, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a powerful impact through transformation. Powered by technology, driven by AI, inspired by people, and led by our purpose, we partner with our clients from design to operation. Our AI-driven digital solutions, proprietary platforms, engineering, R&D, products, and innovation ecosystem turn core challenges into impactful, disruptive business outcomes. With deep industry knowledge and a future-ready mindset, we infuse expertise, innovation, and agility into our clients’ organizations—delivering measurable value and positive lasting change for them, their customers, and communities around the world. Together, with 30,000+ employees in 30+ countries, we build for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process. Visit us at www.UST.com.

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ABU DHABI, UAE, July 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Legendary Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures have unveiled the official new trailer for Dune: Part Three, marking the epic final chapter in Denis Villeneuve’s Academy Award-winning saga.

(L-r) Director/Writer/Producer DENIS VILLENEUVE and Zendaya on the set of Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ action adventure “DUNE: PART THREE,” in the Liwa Desert, Abu Dhabi. A Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Niko Tavernise.

The Abu Dhabi Film Commission (ADFC) also shared new behind-the-scenes images from filming in Abu Dhabi’s pristine Liwa Desert for Dune: Part Three, featuring Denis Villeneuve with cast and crew on location and showcasing the continued partnership between the Commission and Legendary across all three films over the past seven years. Across the franchise, Liwa’s sweeping, otherworldly landscapes have brought Arrakis to life and helped define some of its most iconic cinematic moments.

Dune: Part Three brings Denis Villeneuve’s trilogy to a breathtaking conclusion, set nearly two decades after Paul Atreides seized control of the Imperium. Now a ruthless Emperor, Paul must face the consequences of his reign as old allies return, terrifying new threats emerge, and betrayal lurks in every shadow. Haunted by visions of Imperial collapse and the reappearance of his long-lost love, Paul is drawn into a sweeping conspiracy, with Chani at the heart of its unfolding mystery. As rebellion brews and enemies close in, Paul must confront the true cost of power and the fate of those he loves the most.

Grand in scale and intimate in emotion, Dune: Part Three delivers a powerful and poetic conclusion to one of the defining epics of our time. Building on the visual legacy established in Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), Abu Dhabi’s dramatic desert landscapes once again play a central role in bringing the world of Arrakis to life.

“The opportunity to again work with the incredible cast and crew from Dune: Part Three as Abu Dhabi’s Liwa Desert stars as Arrakis for Denis Villeneuve’s culminating installment was really a poignant and pivotal moment for the entire creative ecosystem of Abu Dhabi. Over 600 UAE-based individuals were involved with the 31 day shoot, from six interns and 38 residents in crowd scenes to 206 local crew and 336 individuals from our wider creative industry including caterers and drivers, the impact of Dune: Part Three is enormous. We, like the rest of the world, are now on an exciting countdown journey to the 16 December when we’ll see the fruition of so many individual efforts, which united to provide a seamless collaboration with Legendary Entertainment.” commented Sameer Al Jaberi, Head of Abu Dhabi Film Commission.

“Returning to Abu Dhabi’s Liwa Desert for Dune: Part Three was never in doubt. I can’t think of any place else in the world that provides such stunning imagery, as well as the support we’ve received from the Abu Dhabi Film Commission and our partners there across all three films. The people, crew, and resources in Abu Dhabi made an incredibly difficult undertaking feel comfortable and easy, and the attention to detail and care shown to our cast and crew was exceptional,” said Herb Gains, EVP of Physical Production, Legendary Entertainment.

Dune: Part Three was supported by Creative Media Authority Abu Dhabi (CMA) and the Abu Dhabi Film Commission, with Image Nation Abu Dhabi serving as a production partner and Epic Films as the local production services provider. The production also benefited from Abu Dhabi’s cashback rebate program and 206 highly skilled local crew including 12 stunt performers who were joined by 336 local contractors and drivers, underscoring the emirate’s continued growth as a premier destination for large-scale international filmmaking. The 31 day shoot in Abu Dhabi, which included two days in Al Ain, also required the assistance of 38 individuals to support with on-camera crowd scenes whilst six young, talented interns supported in production roles off-camera.

“Working with some of the world’s leading film creatives and being able to bring the authenticity of how a nation works harmoniously within a desert environment gave me great pride as an Emirati, and now to be able to see our beautiful local landscapes and talent on screen will build upon this pride as the world sees Arrakis on screens again,” said Mohamed F Mostafa, Stunt Performer, Dune: Part Three.

“The enduring relationship between Legendary Entertainment and the Abu Dhabi Film Commission spans more than a decade and reflects a shared commitment to supporting world-class productions. Throughout that time, Abu Dhabi has proven to be a trusted partner, providing the expertise, infrastructure, and collaboration required to successfully execute productions on a global scale. The Dune trilogy is a testament to the strength of that relationship, and we are proud of what we have achieved together,” said Sam Kozhaya, EVP of Operations and Corporate Development, Legendary Entertainment.

Directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Villeneuve and Brian K. Vaughan, Dune: Part Three is based on the novels written by Frank Herbert and delivers the epic conclusion to Villeneuve’s trilogy. The film stars Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Florence Pugh, Rebecca Ferguson, Isaach De Bankolé, with Charlotte Rampling, with Anya Taylor-Joy, and Robert Pattinson, and Javier Bardem, and features newcomers Nakoa-Wolf Momoa and Ida Brooke. 

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures Present A Legendary Pictures Production, A Film By Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Three. The film opens only in theaters and IMAX^® across North America on December 18, 2026, and internationally beginning December 16, 2026, and will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures and in China by Legendary East.

(L-r) TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET and Director/Writer/Producer DENIS VILLENEUVE on the set of Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ action adventure “DUNE: PART THREE,” in the Liwa Desert, Abu Dhabi. A Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Niko Tavernise.

Director/Writer/Producer DENIS VILLENEUVE on the set of Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ action adventure “DUNE: PART THREE,” in the Liwa Desert, Abu Dhabi. A Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Niko Tavernise.

Legendary Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures Unveil Dune: Part Three Trailer and Behind-the-Scenes Images Showcasing Abu Dhabi as Arrakis

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HONG KONG, July 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On Wednesday, July 8 at Happy Valley, The Hong Kong Jockey Club (the Club) presented a special race to capture a singular cultural moment: where the world’s love of football joins with world-class horse racing. As the football tournament enters the quarter-finals gripping the attention of billions, the Club reframed the moment through the classic sports of horse racing. Eight thoroughbreds raced around the famous Happy Valley track in a thrilling contest of speed and courage, with Forza Toro, ridden by Joao Moreira and carrying the colours inspired by Spain, crossing the line first.

The race, “Eight to Glory, presented by Lenovo”, was staged as a vibrant competition, symbolising the final eight competing for honours in Happy Valley, turning one of Asia’s most iconic sporting venues into the unlikeliest football stage on earth.

The line-up for the race was as follows:

“Horse racing has always been about national pride and so is football. With “Eight to Glory”, we want to bring those two worlds together in a way only The Hong Kong Jockey Club can. Eight horses lined up under the spotlights on the turf, each ridden by a jockey who is trading traditional silks for iconic football jerseys, each supporting a nation that enters the quarter-final round of the iconic tournament which will commence the next day. This is not just another race. We wanted to do something the sporting world has never seen during the world’s biggest sporting event,” said Casper Stylsvig, the Club’s Executive Director, Sports Business, The Hong Kong Jockey Club.

Eight Hong Kong racehorses were given a moment in the spotlight, partnered by world-class Jockeys, and a human thread that turned a novel concept into a showcase of racing stars and footballing excellence.

“Eight to Glory” also features a meaningful charity component. On behalf of the eight horse owners participating in this special race, the Club makes donations to charity organisations nominated by the owners. This gives the race an additional layer of meaning that resembles “racing for charity” as the Club, being one of the world’s leading charity donors, acts continuously for the betterment of society.  

The Club has entered into a new strategic partnership with Lenovo, Official Technology Partner of FIFA World Cup 2026™. On the race day, Lenovo presented the Lenovo Experience Booth, an immersive AI-powered football zone that showcases technologies associated with Lenovo’s role at FIFA World Cup 2026™. 

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About The Hong Kong Jockey Club

Founded in 1884, The Hong Kong Jockey Club is a world-class sports and entertainment organisation that acts continuously for the betterment of our society. The Club has a unique integrated business model, comprising racing and racecourse entertainment, a membership club, and charities and community contribution. Through this model, the Club generates economic and social value for the community. In 2024/25, the Club returned a total of HK$39.1 billion to the community. This included HK$30.1 billion to the HKSAR Government in taxes and contributions and HK$9.0 billion in approved charity donations. The Club is Hong Kong’s largest single taxpayer and one of the city’s major employers. Its Charities Trust is one of the world’s leading charity donors. Please visit www.hkjc.com.

Collaboration combines Ruby Bio’s innovative biomanufacturing platform with LBBS’s commercial expertise to help prepare the market for a new generation of clean-label, palm-free emulsifiers produced from renewable and upcycled feedstocks.

NORWALK, Conn., July 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LBB Specialties (LBBS), a North American distributor of specialty chemicals and ingredients, today announced a commercial relationship with Ruby Bio to advance market readiness for Ruby Bio’s fermentation-derived emulsifier platform across North America. The collaboration will focus on customer engagement, market development, and commercialization planning to help prepare manufacturers for the introduction of a new generation of fermented, clean-label, palm-free emulsifiers produced from renewable and upcycled feedstocks.

As consumer expectations continue to evolve around ingredient transparency, sustainability, and supply chain resilience, manufacturers are increasingly seeking solutions that deliver both performance and environmental benefits. Food and beverage companies face growing pressure to reduce reliance on palm-derived ingredients, strengthen supply chains, and meet demand for more sustainable products without compromising functionality. Ruby Bio’s proprietary fermentation platform addresses these challenges by offering a fermentation-derived alternative to conventional emulsification technologies.

The emulsifier platform uses naturally occurring yeast to convert renewable and upcycled feedstocks into high-performance ingredients that help formulators meet growing demand for clean-label, palm-free, and sustainably sourced ingredients. Unlike conventional production methods, this precision fermentation process reduces environmental impact while delivering consistent performance.

The relationship will initially focus on customer engagement and commercialization readiness as Ruby Bio progresses toward commercial production and regulatory milestones. Initial production of the company’s fermentation-derived emulsifiers is expected to begin later this year, with self-GRAS determination anticipated in 2027. In advance of commercialization, LBBS and Ruby Bio will collaborate with prospective customers to explore application opportunities, gather market feedback, develop technical and marketing resources, and build the foundation for successful market adoption upon launch.

Through this relationship, LBBS will help lead commercial market development activities with Ruby Bio for emulsifiers across North America, leveraging its strategic marketing capabilities, technical sales organization, and customer-first approach to market development. As a specialty ingredients distributor serving Food & Nutrition, Life Sciences, Care, and Industrial Specialties markets, LBBS provides customers with a combination of technical expertise, market insights, and commercialization support designed to accelerate innovation and growth.

Together, the companies aim to help food, beverage, and nutrition manufacturers evaluate emerging emulsifier technologies and prepare for future commercialization opportunities. By combining Ruby Bio’s manufacturing platform with LBBS’s commercialization expertise, the collaboration aims to accelerate customer understanding, application development, and market adoption readiness for fermentation-derived emulsifiers.

“Our customers are increasingly looking for ingredient solutions that support clean-label initiatives, sustainability goals, and supply chain resilience without sacrificing performance,” said Toby Schmelz, Vice President of Food & Beverage, LBB Specialties. “Ruby Bio represents exactly the kind of science-backed, forward-thinking innovation we seek to bring to market. Their fermentation platform addresses meaningful industry challenges, and we’re excited to work together to help customers prepare for the next generation of emulsifier technology.”

“Partnering with LBBS gives Ruby Bio a commercialization partner with the market reach, customer engagement capabilities, and industry expertise needed to accelerate market adoption,” said Charlie Silver, CEO and Co-Founder of Ruby Bio. “As we advance toward commercialization, we’re excited to combine our fermentation platform with LBBS’s sales, marketing, and customer development strengths to introduce a new category of high-performance, fermentation-derived emulsifiers. Together, we can help customers build more sustainable and resilient supply chains without compromising functionality or performance.”

The companies share a common vision of advancing ingredient innovation through sustainable manufacturing, supply chain diversification, and customer-focused commercialization. While the initial focus of the relationship is on emulsifiers, Ruby Bio’s broader platform spans additional food ingredient and specialty chemical applications, creating opportunities for future collaboration as market needs continue to evolve.

For more information about Ruby Bio’s Fermentation-Derived Emulsifier Platform, please contact LBB Specialties today.

About LBB Specialties

LBB Specialties (LBBS) is a dedicated provider of specialty chemicals and ingredients, specializing in sales, marketing, and distribution across North America. LBBS provides technical solutions with a customer-first approach, serving diverse end-markets through five industry and market business units: Care, Food & Nutrition, Industrial Specialties, Life Sciences, and Canada. www.LBBSpecialties.com

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Ahmed Hanafy
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About Ruby Bio

Ruby Bio is a fermentation-based ingredient company commercializing natural emulsifiers for the global food and beverage market. The company’s platform is designed to replace synthetic emulsifiers with clean-label, palm-free alternatives that perform across a broad range of food applications, with competitive pricing for mainstream adoption. Ruby Bio is headquartered in San Carlos, CA. www.rubybio.com

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Charlie Silver
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