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Hyosung Chairman Hyun-Joon Cho Drives Record Success in U.S. Power Grid Market
Hyosung Heavy Industries' Q2 operating profit surges by 60%, marking a record quarterly high. The U.S. market accounts for 71% of the KRW 7.5 trillion in new orders secured during the first half of the year. Company solidifies its No. 1 position in the U.S. 765kV market, driven by its largest-ever order and "full-package" supply capabilities. Chairman Hyun Joon Cho's proactive investments and strategic high-level networking yield significant results. Chairman Cho declares the company is firmly established as a "Total Solution Provider" in the U.S. power market. SEOUL, South Korea , Aug. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Under the leadership of Hyosung Chairman Hyun Joon Cho, Hyosung Heavy Industries is building a solid presence in the U.S. power market. Chairman Cho's strategic bet to designate the power infrastructure business as a future growth engine and invest proactively in the local market is being credited with driving the company's strong performance. Hyosung Heavy Industries' Manufacturing Plant in Memphis, Tennessee, USA 71% of New Orders from the U.S... Annual Order Target Raised to KRW 12 Trillion Hyosung Heavy Industries reported Q2 sales of KRW 1.687 trillion and an operating profit of KRW 264.3 billion, representing year-over-year growth of 10.6% and 60.9%, respectively. New orders in the first half of the year reached KRW 7.4987 trillion, nearly matching the total order amount for the entirety of last year. The annual order target has also been raised from the previous KRW 8.4 trillion to KRW 12 trillion. At the core of this growth lies the company's performance in the U.S. market. Approximately 71% of Hyosung Heavy Industries' new orders in the first half of the year were secured in the United States. This is due to accelerating investments in local transmission grids driven by the expansion of AI data center construction. Largest-Ever KRW 787 Billion Power Equipment Supply Contract Earlier this year, Hyosung Heavy Industries signed a power equipment supply contract worth approximately KRW 787 billion with a leading U.S. transmission grid operator for 765kV ultra-high-voltage transformers, reactors, and other power equipment. This contract is the largest single project ever awarded to a Korean power equipment company operating in the U.S. market. Last year, Hyosung Heavy Industries also became the first Korean company to sign a "full-package" supply contract in the U.S. for power equipment, including 765kV ultra-high-voltage transformers and 800kV ultra-high-voltage gas-insulated switchgear (GIS). With these consecutive large-scale orders, Hyosung Heavy Industries has reaffirmed its strong leadership position in the U.S. 765kV market. Solidifying 'No. 1' Position in U.S. 765kV Ultra-High-Voltage Transformer Market The 765kV transmission network offers the advantage of transmitting massive power capacities over long distances while significantly reducing transmission losses compared to existing 345kV or 500kV systems. To ensure a stable supply of large-scale power, major U.S. utilities are moving quickly to develop plans for 765kV transmission networks. Hyosung Heavy Industries has supplied nearly half of the 765kV ultra-high-voltage transformers currently installed across the U.S. transmission grid. In particular, the company has maintained the number one market share in the U.S. 765kV ultra-high-voltage transformer market since the early 2010s, proving its product reliability and technological prowess in the U.S. power market. Chairman Hyun Joon Cho's Proactive Investments and U.S. Networking Yield Results Behind these achievements in the U.S. lies the strategic foresight and bold investments of Hyosung Chairman Hyun Joon Cho. Chairman Cho has emphasized, "As the explosive growth of the AI industry makes the modernization of power infrastructure an essential task, we will firmly establish ourselves as a 'Total Solution Provider' in the U.S. power market through successful localization and operational know-how, including our Memphis plant." Anticipating that a U.S. production base would be the core of competitiveness in the future power infrastructure market, Chairman Cho acquired an ultra-high-voltage transformer manufacturing plant in Tennessee in 2020. Despite internal concerns regarding various risks, he made the bold decision to acquire the facility, foreseeing the singularity era driven by AI advancements. Chairman Cho's extensive U.S. network has also contributed to these results. By building personal relationships with senior executives in the U.S. energy and power sectors, as well as figures such as U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, Chairman Cho has helped enhance Hyosung Heavy Industries' brand value. Website: https://www.hyosung.com/en/
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DXC Powers the Next Era of Work with DXC Workplace Services
DXC Workplace Services helps organizations improve employee productivity and experience without adding new tools or operational complexity. The offering combines DXC's deep domain expertise with agentic AI capabilities to anticipate employee technology needs, reducing productivity disruptions, and accelerating issue resolution. Enabled by DXC OASIS, Workplace Services helps customers maximize existing technology investments and deliver measurable business outcomes, including 40% reduction in operational complexity, 60% fewer service desk calls, and 15+ hours of productivity returned to every employee each month. ASHBURN, Va. , Aug. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner, today announced DXC Workplace Services, a new people-centered, AI-native workplace offering that reimagines the digital workplace around employee outcomes rather than technology. The offering helps organizations improve productivity, strengthen employee experience, and optimize IT operations that maximize existing technology investments without adding more tools. DXC Workplace Services is enabled by DXC OASIS , the intelligent orchestration platform that transforms managed services through Human+ agentic AI workflows, delivering people-first agentic operations that anticipate employee needs and drive proactive outcomes. DXC Workplace Services Employees assess workplace technology by their experience and ability to get work done efficiently. Yet many organizations continue to operate fragmented tools, disconnected workflows, and reactive support models that create friction for employees and complexity for IT teams. DXC Workplace Services helps address these challenges by leveraging an experience-led, productivity focused, and AI powered workplace journey approach that helps customers achieve their business outcomes without compromising experience. DXC Workplace Services applies experience design principles from the outset, helping ensure the workplace solution is intuitive, easier to use, and aligned to established ways of working. The new agentic support experience delivers proactive, intelligent IT support that meets employees where they are and lays the foundation for a better-connected workplace. With Workplace Services, agents and DXC experts deliver support through individual employees' preferred contact channel —email, chat, or voice— guiding employees and completing tasks for employees for faster, smarter, and easier support. This new people-first support model can help resolve IT issues before they disrupt work, enabling technology to operate more seamlessly in the background while employees stay focused on getting work done. "Enterprises should not have to choose between advancing business priorities, improving IT efficiency, and delivering a stronger employee experience. We designed DXC Workplace Services to help organizations achieve these objectives simultaneously by aligning workplace experiences to how employees work, reducing friction both within and across employees' workplace environment to facilitate a seamless, wholistic experience," said Kelly Candler, Global Offering Lead, Workplace & Business Process Services, DXC Technology. DXC Workplace Services is built on three core principles to create a holistic workplace experience: Designed around people — Experiences aligned to established employee workflows to reduce friction and support adoption from the outset. Orchestrated across existing investments — A connected workplace environment that helps customers enhance the capabilities of the platforms, devices and services already in place. Powered by Human+ agentic AI — AI, automation, and DXC expertise working together to anticipate employee needs, reduce disruptions, and continuously improve workplace performance. Together, this approach helps drive measurable business outcomes: 40% reduction in operational complexity 60% fewer service desk calls 50% of device issues resolved before employees notice 15+ hours of productivity returned to every employee each month DXC OASIS is the intelligent orchestration platform that transforms how managed services are delivered through Human+ agentic AI workflows. By seamlessly integrating human expertise with governed AI agents, DXC OASIS enables organizations to anticipate needs, automate complex operations, and deliver proactive outcomes at scale. DXC Workplace Services leverages DXC OASIS's agentic AI workflows to orchestrate the employee workplace across existing technology investments and deliver intelligent, people-centered workplace operations. This platform-driven approach empowers DXC and its customers to reimagine managed services—replacing reactive, siloed capabilities with coordinated workflows that drive measurable improvements in employee experience, operational efficiency, and business outcomes. Learn more at www.dxc.com/workplace . About DXC Technology DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) is a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner delivering software, services and solutions to global enterprises and public sector organizations, helping them harness AI to drive outcomes at a time of exponential change with speed. With deep expertise in Managed Infrastructure Services, Application Modernization and Industry-Specific Software Solutions, DXC modernizes, secures and operates some of the world's most complex technology estates. Learn more at dxc.com.
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WASHINGTON — The State Department is asking US embassies in the Middle East to create plans to continue operating with a small number of staff on the ground as the war with Iran shows no signs of resolution, CNN reported.Additionally, personnel who have been displaced from their posts in the Middle East are increasingly being given the option to curtail their assignments, sources told the news network.The plans have not been finalized, the sources said, and it is unclear if they will be implemented at all of the embassies that are currently on reduced staffing. Still, the developments underscore that the State Department does not expect to return to normal staffing in the region soon amid the looming threat of a full-scale return to war.A State Department spokesperson told CNN that they “do not discuss internal deliberations or post-specific contingency planning,” but noted that the department “continually reviews the security and staffing posture at every diplomatic mission based on conditions on the ground and adjusts personnel levels as appropriate.”“The safety and security of our personnel and their families remains the Department’s top priority as we continue to assess conditions across the region,” the spokesperson said. “Decisions regarding the status of any post are made based on a range of security and operational factors, in close coordination between posts and Washington.”The State Department ordered nonemergency personnel and family members to leave almost every diplomatic post in the region shortly after the war began in late February. That has led to nearly six months of uncertainty about whether the posts would be able to return to normal and all diplomats could return. The plans for “reduced operations,” once finalized, could provide some clarity to US diplomats and their families who have been displaced.The State Department did not reduce staffing at most of its embassies in the region before the US and Israel began their military campaign. Ahead of the war, only Lebanon and Israel were in ordered and authorized departure status, respectively. Authorized departure means nonemergency personnel and family members could choose to leave but were not required to.Within weeks, as US diplomatic facilities across the region came under attack by Iran and its proxies, the department ordered nonemergency personnel and families to leave Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.The US Embassy in Kuwait suspended operations entirely in March and only resumed emergency operations for Americans in late June. It remains under ordered departure. The US Embassy in Oman is under authorized departure.The sudden drawdown in staffing left diplomats and family members, many of whom had years left on their assignments, scrambling to find housing and to enroll their children in school back in the US. However, because it was unclear how long embassies would operate with reduced staffing, families couldn’t make longer-term commitments when they returned home. If normal operations resumed, they would be expected to quickly return to the Middle East.Under State Department rules, diplomatic posts cannot have their “ordered departure” status extended for more than 180 days. Once that limit is reached, if they are unable to return to normal status, they switch to “restricted operations,” which includes caps on in-country staffing.The State Department’s foreign affairs manual notes that restricted status “is intended as a temporary measure to address safety and security,” but “it may continue as long as necessary to ensure that adequate safety and security measures are in place.”For the posts in the Middle East, restricted operations status will likely mean no children and few spouses will be allowed to return, sources said.The State Department spokesperson said the department remains “committed to supporting our workforce and their families throughout this process and will provide updates through appropriate channels as decisions are made.”It will also mean a continued shortage of US diplomats on the ground. For those who are still not able to return to their posts, they may try to curtail, but it is not clear whether there are enough alternate jobs for them.And fewer diplomats on the ground could impact the State Department’s ability to provide quick consular assistance to Americans abroad and to advance the administration’s priorities, former diplomats said.“When you have fewer people, there’s less you can do, and there’s a lot that you cannot do remotely,” said John Bass, a former career diplomat who served as an under secretary of state for management.“The fewer diplomats you have in country, the fewer people you have who are focused on what is happening in that country, in that government, keeping tabs on key issues for the United States,” he explained. “You’ve got fewer people there to be promoting the US government’s views on what is happening and why, and what is in our interests and the interests of that country, working together, to try to solve a common problem.”He noted that leaders might discuss a broad agreement on a matter, but it comes down to the experienced diplomats on the ground “to be able to really get into the details with that host government about how to move forward.”Bass, who was an ambassador to Turkey, Georgia and Afghanistan, told CNN that the restricted operations status could potentially last “for months, if not years.”
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Zhu Rongji, reforming Chinese prime minister, dies aged 97
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