Startups- Winners, Winners, Chicken dinners

The summer slow down clearly had an effect on our newsletter as we are a bit late this month.

In last month's survey, we asked all of you whether your industry was improving/collapsing and we got a surprise:

58% of the respondents stated their industry is either slightly improving (~25%) or are literally overwhelmed (~33%) with new business!

Great to see that 1/3 of businesses responded that they are overwhelmed with new business.

The State of Manufacturing

The overall PMI Index went up another 1.8% to 56%.

New Orders continue their strong upwards trend as in the prior 3 months.

Inventories across the board keep contracting while Backlog keeps increasing. This clearly explains some of the ongoing supply challenges across various industries.

Average production material lead times remain the same at 66 days.

Cleantech Open NorthEast (CTONE) will have their Regional Finals on Thursday, Oct 1st at 2PM. Join the live zoom meeting to see the best start-ups pitch their companies. Sign up here.

The National CleanTech Open Finals will be held on Oct 21st and we will provide the sign-up link once available.

The Global Awards and Showcase Event will be held on Friday, Oct. 23rd. Register here to find out the Grand Prize winner.

MassChallange is also wrapping up their program with the 2020 MassChallange Virtual Awards Banquet on Oct. 22nd. Sign-up here if you want to find out who will win this year.

Other notable standouts were:

Read more about which companies received funding last month here. (Source: BOSTINNO)

Altiostar Tech Mahindra sold it's 17.5% stake to Rakuten. More about this here. (Source: Livemint)

Desktop Metal has announced that it will become a publicly listed company on the NY Stock Exchange in Q4 of 2020, following an investment from Trine. More on this here. (Source: Businesswire)

FormLabs released their larger print capacity Form 3L system and is planning to release a biocompatible resin version, the Form 3BL later this year. Read more about this here. (Source: 3d printing industry)

Fortify started shipping its FLUX ONE 3D printer capable of printing photopolymers to customers. After years of developments, that's a fantastic milestone. More details here. (Source: 3DPrinting media)

Locus Robotics has crossed the 200 million units picked milestone with the autonomous mobile robots (AMR) for fulfillment warehouses. Read more on this here .(Source: PRNewswire).

MetalMark is taking great strides towards launching a catalyst to eliminate airborne particles such as covid-19 amongst several other applications.

Find out more here (Source: Harvard University).

Superpedestrian is launching it's LINK scooter in Rome. More on this here .(Source: SiliconCanals).

WiTricity the McLaren Speedtail customers, and hopefully many more in the future will be happy by charging their electric cars wirelessly. Find out more here .(Source: Carbuzz).

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