SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Higgs Korea, a consistent leader in mobile accessories and small electronics on Korea's KakaoTalk Gift platform, is ramping up the entry of its flagship brand, GRIPBANK, into the Japanese market. Recently added to Japan's Qoo10 shopping platform and launching local SNS campaigns, Higgs Korea introduces unique designs and lifestyle aesthetics, aiming to inspire new travel essentials among Japanese consumers.
Moving beyond simple chargers and electric heaters, Higgs Korea champions the concept of "portable chargers as fashion," pioneering the domestic market for lifestyle accessories and compact electronics. Whereas most portable devices have focused heavily on functionality, Higgs Korea relies on differentiated designs, developed by its in-house design center, to continually introduce products such as GRIPBANK portable chargers that stand out from the crowd.
Since the early 2020s, Higgs Korea has maintained the top spot in mobile accessories and small electronics sold through KakaoTalk Gift. Its playful characters and stylish color variations consistently capture the tastes of the MZ generation, securing their status as must-have travel companions. The main lineup covers GRIPBANK chargers, electric heaters, and other daily lifestyle accessories and practical small devices, earning high marks for blending design, safety, and functionality.
In Japan, the company plans to deepen its reach with MZ and lifestyle-focused consumers, rapidly launching GRIPBANK chargers and limited edition designs through Qoo10 listings and official SNS channels. The brand often sells out instantly online, at home and abroad, and aims to set itself apart from traditional Japanese electronics companies by emphasizing striking design and practicality—solidifying its reputation as a top "travel essential" brand.
A Higgs Korea spokesperson said, "Our portable chargers go beyond simple devices and electric heaters—they have become global travel essentials, reflecting users' personality and style. Building on our unique designs, creativity, and successful online platform experience, we're excited to introduce a fresh lifestyle to Japanese consumers."
GRIPBANK products can be found at https://www.qoo10.jp/shop/gripbank and https://www.instagram.com/gripbank.jp.
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Higgs Korea Accelerates Entry into Japanese Market with Its Flagship GRIPBANK Brand, Setting New Travel Essential Trends with Portable Chargers
CHANGSHA, China, Jan. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. ("Zoomlion"; 1157.HK) is driving a new wave of intelligent transformation by integrating AI with construction machinery, the industrial internet, big data, and cloud computing. Its full-chain AI system spans smart products, manufacturing, management, and embodied-intelligence robotics, reshaping the company into a fully digital and intelligent enterprise. Zoomlion is also scaling humanoid robotics as its "third growth curve," backed by proprietary hardware-software integration capabilities.
Zoomlion's full-chain AI application system covers four major pillars, namely, AI plus construction machinery, AI plus intelligent manufacturing, AI plus intelligent management, and AI plus embodied-intelligence robots. At Zoomlion Smart City, 12 smart factories and over 300 smart production lines, including 20 lights-out lines, operate as an end-to-end intelligent manufacturing system. In the AI plus intelligent manufacturing domain, processes such as cutting, welding, machining, painting, and assembly are fully connected to the industrial internet platform. This allows unified management of over 100,000 material types and intelligent manufacturing of over 400 products.
AI-driven scheduling and optimization enable the park to produce an excavator every six minutes, a scissor lift every 7.5 minutes, a concrete pump truck every 27 minutes, and a truck crane every 18 minutes, marking a breakthrough in large-scale, multi-variety, small-batch agile manufacturing. Zoomlion also applies AI across R&D, production, sales, service, and supply chain management. For customer service, the Company has launched a voice-based AI expert diagnostic system with over 95 percent accuracy, enabling remote fault identification, rapid troubleshooting, and 24-hour technical support.
Since 2024, Zoomlion has expanded into embodied-intelligence humanoid robotics, leveraging its full-stack self-development capabilities. Dozens of humanoid robots are now deployed in factory logistics, loading and unloading, pre-assembly, and quality inspection, forming early productivity use cases. Supported by a self-built training ground with over 100 workstations and large-scale industrial datasets, Zoomlion enables rapid iteration of human-robot collaboration. All humanoid and industrial robots are connected to the Zhongke Yungu Embodied Intelligence Platform, which integrates data, training, simulation, and OTA deployment into a closed loop, powered by a national supercomputing center with 59P GPU computing capacity and tens of thousands of distributed nodes.
Beyond humanoid robotics, Zoomlion is developing a wider range of specialized robots for firefighting, mowing, construction, and agriculture. With deep integration across hardware, AI models, and real-world scenarios, the company is positioning embodied intelligence as its next major growth engine.
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Zoomlion Advances Intelligent Manufacturing with Integrated AI and Embodied-Intelligence Robotics
