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Affinity Federal Credit Union Selects Green Check to Scale its Cannabis Banking Program

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Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Green Check (GC), the leading fintech connector and technology and insights provider in the emerging cannabis market, is partnering with Affinity Federal Credit Union (“Affinity”) – a member-owned, community-focused, full-service financial institution headquartered in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, with more than 18 branches throughout the tri-state area.

Key Points: 
  • Green Check (GC), the leading fintech connector and technology and insights provider in the emerging cannabis market, is partnering with Affinity Federal Credit Union (“Affinity”) – a member-owned, community-focused, full-service financial institution headquartered in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, with more than 18 branches throughout the tri-state area.
  • This partnership empowers Affinity to grow its cannabis banking program and broaden its reach to the legal cannabis-related business (CRB) segment of the communities it serves.
  • “Partnering with Green Check reflects Affinity’s unwavering commitment toward improving the financial well-being of our communities,” said Bryan Watkinson, AVP/BSA Officer, Risk Operations.
  • “Affinity understands that it’s essential to support every member of its communities, including legal cannabis businesses in the burgeoning tri-state market,” said Kevin Hart, CEO and Founder of Green Check.

Digitalization, AI and automation lead pack of advances fueling life sciences industry growth, new CRB report finds

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Across the vast global life sciences supply chain, data, digitalization, automation, and artificial intelligence are telling complex and compelling stories about how we move vital vaccines, therapies and cures to patients. Are we ready to listen?

Key Points: 
  • CRB releases its latest Horizons: Life Sciences industry report
    The answer, found in CRB's newest survey-based Horizons: Life Sciences report, is an emphatic "yes" as the industry embraces data analytics, automation and AI technologies to streamline how groundbreaking products scale quickly and efficiently from R&D to commercial production.
  • Underpinning the industry's transformation, the report finds, is its progress along the digital plant maturity model, with companies of all sizes adopting an agility mindset.
  • Digitalization investments, the survey data finds, are driving advances in drug discovery, quality control and regulatory compliance.
  • Gene therapies: Survey data reveals a curious split affecting gene therapy's place in the broader life sciences industry.

FingerLabs officially kicks off Xclusive's Web 3.0 by launching Drama inspired by BTS HYYH

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Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Youth is a drama inspired by BTS' HYYH.

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  • Youth is a drama inspired by BTS' HYYH.
  • CRB Media and FingerLabs have shaken hands to collaborate on various content-related projects based on Web 3.0 technology, including production, marketing, and distribution.
  • In addition, FingerLabs has joined hands with CRB Media to lay the foundation for a stable Web 3.0 content distribution business.
  • It is known that the first content provided by Xclusive as a Web 3.0 content distribution hub is the production and distribution of "Youth", a drama inspired by BTS HYYH.

CRB names Carl Williams as its new VP of Environmental Health & Safety

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023

KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CRB, a leading global provider of sustainable engineering, architecture, construction, and consulting solutions to the life sciences and food and beverage industries, today announced the hiring of Carl Williams as its new Vice President of Environmental Health and Safety. Williams brings to CRB a wealth of expertise and a proven track record of driving environmental health and workplace safety initiatives.

Key Points: 
  • Williams brings to CRB a wealth of expertise and a proven track record of driving environmental health and workplace safety initiatives.
  • Global engineering leader CRB has hired safety veteran Carl Williams as its new VP of environmental health and safety.
  • In his role at CRB, Williams will drive CRB's safety strategy across all operational areas.
  • Before CRB, Williams held health and safety leadership roles at Micron Technology, M+W Group and Texas Instruments.

Leaders in Cannabis Sector Join “Risk Mitigation Alliance” to Bring Discounts on Banking, Compliance, Legal, Tax, Payroll, HR, and Insurance Services

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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

In April, Simplifya also successfully launched RMA with providers and brokers in the insurance sector including: CannGen ; HUB Insurance ; IMA Financial Group ; SafeHerb ; and QuadScore .

Key Points: 
  • In April, Simplifya also successfully launched RMA with providers and brokers in the insurance sector including: CannGen ; HUB Insurance ; IMA Financial Group ; SafeHerb ; and QuadScore .
  • “Dart Bank is pleased to join the Risk Management Alliance as we look for ways to help our cannabis related customers mitigate risk and save money.
  • We are honored to join other best-in-class professionals serving the cannabis industry.
  • Discounted Legal: For operators who work with RMA, Vicente LLP will provide preferred pricing based on the customer’s needs.

Katie Ireland, senior packaging engineer with experience across iconic brands, joins CRB

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Katie Ireland, an industry-leading packaging expert with more than two decades of experience across iconic global brands including Starbucks, Kellogg, Ford Motor Company, Unilever, and Hershey has joined CRB as a senior packaging engineer. For CRB – one of the world's top providers of engineering, architecture, construction and consulting solutions for food and beverage clients – Ireland's arrival bolsters clients seeking holistic packaging, equipment and line design that maximizes a product's shelf life, safety, ease of use and marketing appeal.

Key Points: 
  • Ireland advances CRB solutions for clients seeking to maximize packaging's role in safety, customer loyalty and sales
    KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Katie Ireland, an industry-leading packaging expert with more than two decades of experience across iconic global brands including Starbucks, Kellogg, Ford Motor Company, Unilever, and Hershey has joined CRB as a senior packaging engineer.
  • Katie Ireland, a recognized leader in package engineering with experience at numerous iconic brands, has joined CRB.
  • "No one is more locked in on those goals than CRB, and few in this industry can match Katie's deep packaging credentials and impact.
  • Before CRB, Ireland spent more than 10 years at Starbucks, where she led numerous global packaging solution and innovation efforts that streamlined the coffee giant's packaging lines.

Bruynzeel receives €18 million order in Canada, the largest in history

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Thursday, June 8, 2023

PANNINGEN, Netherlands, June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bruynzeel Storage Systems has received the largest order in its corporate history with the collection storage of the Royal British Columbia Museum in Canada. The new Collections and Research Building (CRB) will open in 2026 and will store an impressive collection of more than 7 million artefacts and British Columbia's archives. It is one of the most important history museums in Canada. The current museum building dates back to 1886 and attracts millions of visitors annually. The value of the new building project is over €180 million. Of the total area of 15,000m2, Bruynzeel furnishes almost half with its storage systems. It is also one of the first projects to be built with low carbon steel. Bruynzeel is the global market leader in storage systems for libraries, archives and museums.

Key Points: 
  • PANNINGEN, Netherlands, June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bruynzeel Storage Systems has received the largest order in its corporate history with the collection storage of the Royal British Columbia Museum in Canada.
  • Of the total area of 15,000m2, Bruynzeel furnishes almost half with its storage systems.
  • Bruynzeel also recently implemented Bruynzeel GreenSteel® in the new sustainable library of the famous Scottish 'University of St Andrews'.
  • Bruynzeel has committed to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi2) to achieve 'Net Zero' for Scope 1, 2 and 3 by 2045.

Bruynzeel receives €18 million order in Canada, the largest in history

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Thursday, June 8, 2023

PANNINGEN, Netherlands, June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bruynzeel Storage Systems has received the largest order in its corporate history with the collection storage of the Royal British Columbia Museum in Canada. The new Collections and Research Building (CRB) will open in 2026 and will store an impressive collection of more than 7 million artefacts and British Columbia's archives. It is one of the most important history museums in Canada. The current museum building dates back to 1886 and attracts millions of visitors annually. The value of the new building project is over €180 million. Of the total area of 15,000m2, Bruynzeel furnishes almost half with its storage systems. It is also one of the first projects to be built with low carbon steel. Bruynzeel is the global market leader in storage systems for libraries, archives and museums.

Key Points: 
  • PANNINGEN, Netherlands, June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bruynzeel Storage Systems has received the largest order in its corporate history with the collection storage of the Royal British Columbia Museum in Canada.
  • Of the total area of 15,000m2, Bruynzeel furnishes almost half with its storage systems.
  • Bruynzeel also recently implemented Bruynzeel GreenSteel® in the new sustainable library of the famous Scottish 'University of St Andrews'.
  • Bruynzeel has committed to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi2) to achieve 'Net Zero' for Scope 1, 2 and 3 by 2045.

CRB grows its footprint in New Jersey with opening of new office in Bridgewater

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Tuesday, June 6, 2023

BRIDGEWATER, N.J., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --– CRB, a leading global provider of engineering, architecture, construction, and consulting solutions to the life sciences and food and beverage industries, announces its 22nd office opening in Bridgewater, New Jersey. The office becomes CRB's fifth Northeast location, joining spaces in the Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Toronto, Canada, areas and bringing the company's innovative project delivery teams and subject matter experts even closer to clients in one of the largest and most influential biopharma clusters in the world.

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  • BRIDGEWATER, N.J., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --– CRB , a leading global provider of engineering, architecture, construction, and consulting solutions to the life sciences and food and beverage industries, announces its 22nd office opening in Bridgewater, New Jersey.
  • CRB announces the opening of its New Jersey office in Bridgewater.
  • Drawing from CRB's deep bench of internationally recognized industry thought leaders, the New Jersey office positions CRB to capture an even larger share of the Northeast biopharma market.
  • The office itself is an expression of CRB core values with an employee-centered collaborative and daylit environment.

Hiperbaric Announces 3rd Annual Virtual HPP Innovation Week for the Food & Beverage Industry

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Thursday, May 18, 2023

MIAMI, May 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hiperbaric, the global leader in High Pressure Processing (HPP) equipment, is excited to announce its 3rd virtual HPP Innovation Week, which will take place from June 20th to June 22nd.

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  • The three-day online conference is designed for the food & beverage industry, bringing together HPP technology users, food manufacturers and retailers, regulatory, academic leaders, packaging suppliers and HPP third-party providers, also known as HPP tollers.
  • The event will provide a forum for education, networking, and collaboration while demonstrating how HPP is revolutionizing the food and beverage industry.
  • The HPP Innovation Week program will focus on six categories over three days, including trends, R&D, sustainability, commercialization, technology, and case studies.
  • Andrés Hernando, Hiperbaric CEO, said, "We are thrilled to announce our third virtual HPP Innovation Week.