U.S. Polo Assn. Returns to 2026 DMMI Royal Charity Polo Cup as Official Apparel and Team Sponsor

Global Brand Supports Prince of Wales’ Philanthropic Polo Event, Raising Over £1 Million

WEST PALM BEACH, FL AND WINDSOR, UK / ACCESS Newswire / July 14, 2026 / U.S. Polo Assn.®, the global sports brand in partnership with Brand Machine Group (BMG), its licensing partner in the United Kingdom, proudly returned as the Official Apparel and Team Sponsor for the 2026 DMMI Royal Charity Polo Cup. The prestigious charitable event took place on July 10 at the historic Flemish Farm’s Guards Polo Club in Windsor Great Park.

1) (left to right) U.S. Polo Assn. Team Accepts 2026 DMMI Royal Charity Polo Cup Trophy: Boo Jalil (BMG), Amr Zeden, Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprahba, HRH The Princess of Wales, HRH The Prince of Wales, Mark Tomlinson, J. Michael Prince (USPA Global)

2) The 2026 DMMI Royal Charity Polo Cup in full swing at Flemish Farm’s Guards Polo Club in Windsor Great Park
3) U.S. Polo Assn. Team Captain, HRH The Prince of Wales, riding a polo pony at the 2026 DMMI Royal Charity Polo Cup

Photo Credit: Chris Jackson – Getty Images

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales once again captained the U.S. Polo Assn. Team, and this annual gathering brought together distinguished guests and top-level polo players for a fun-filled day centered on friendly competition and charitable giving through the sport of polo. HRH The Prince of Wales competed in an exciting round-robin format match against Manta Marine and The Mirror Polo Team. The high-profile charitable event featured excellent gameplay from all participants and concluded with HRH The Prince of Wales defending last year’s title with the U.S. Polo Assn. Team. The Royal Charity Cup continues to serve as a highlight for U.S. Polo Assn. during the British polo season as a celebration of sportsmanship, horsemanship, and philanthropy through the sport of polo.

Royal Charity Polo Cup at-a-Glance:

  • Teams:
    • U.S. Polo Assn. Team (HRH The Prince of Wales, Mark Tomlinson, Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, Amr Zedan)
    • Mirror Polo Team (Rafi Bruckner, Steve Cox, Sarkis Gabrelian, Nico Roberts)
    • Manta Marine Team (James Beh, Jovey Beh, Mohamed Ndao, Ivan Rubinich)
  • Date: July 10, 2026
  • Location: Flemish Farm’s Guards Polo Club in Windsor Great Park, England
  • Most Valuable Player: Rafi Bruckner (Mirror Polo Team)
  • Best Playing Pony: Chechu, played by HRH The Prince of Wales (U.S. Polo Assn. Team)

Marking its eighth consecutive year of support, U.S. Polo Assn. outfitted all participating polo players, umpires, and flaggers in custom-designed performance jerseys, while also providing curated commemorative gifts for event attendees. The tailored gift set included a canvas tote bag, a silk pillowcase, a lapel pin, co-branded event caps developed exclusively for this year’s event, as well as the brand’s newest annual issue of Field X Fashion magazine. U.S. Polo Assn. also brought its newest global polo shirt campaign, An Icon Born from the Game™, to life throughout the Royal Charity Cup through visibility on player jerseys and polo shirt bag tags featured at the hospitality table, further highlighting the brand’s authentic sports origins and the polo shirt’s evolution into one of the world’s most enduring style essentials.

“We are proud to once again support His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales for the eighth consecutive year as he captained the U.S. Polo Assn. Team for this sport-inspired charitable event,” said J. Michael Prince, President and CEO of USPA Global, the company which manages the global, multi-billion-dollar U.S. Polo Assn. brand. “Together with our partners at Brand Machine Group, U.S. Polo Assn. is honored to help drive awareness and financial support through the sport of polo for the Official Royal Charities of The Prince and Princess of Wales, which make a meaningful difference across the United Kingdom.”

The annual high-profile philanthropic event raised more than £1 million for 10 important charities across the United Kingdom that are supported by The Prince and Princess of Wales. The 2026 event contribution takes the total raised from Royal Charity Polo Days played in the U.K. over the last 15 years to more than £15 million.

Those charities include: Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Forward Trust, Maternal Mental Health Alliance, Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity, The Passage, The Royal College of Paramedics, Shout, Ty Hafan, Wales Air Ambulance, and We Are Farming Minds.

In addition to U.S. Polo Assn.’s role as the Official Apparel and Team Sponsor, the 2026 DMMI Royal Charity Polo Cup was supported by a distinguished roster of partners. Title Sponsor DMMI was joined by Team Sponsors Manta Marine Technologies and The Mirror Polo Team, Beverage Sponsors Moët Chandon and Whispering Angel, and the Catering Sponsor, AP & Co. The Most Valuable Player Award was sponsored by Audi, and the Best Playing Pony Sponsor was the Cox Family of Oklahoma. Together, these partners contributed to elevating the Royal Charity Cup experience and reinforced the philanthropic mission of the annual event.

“Each year, the Royal Charity Polo Cup continues to grow in both impact and prestige, and U.S. Polo Assn. is proud to play a role in its continued success,” said Boo Jalil, CEO of Brand Machine Group. “Our collaboration allows us to further connect our global brand to the sport of polo while supporting an event that brings together style, sport, and charity in a meaningful way.”

Guests and fans of the sport of polo can also look ahead to the award-winning broadcast, Breakaway: Polo in Europe, coming to ESPN, TNT, and Eurosport this summer, which highlights exciting sporting events across the continent. The episode can also be viewed on Global Polo’s YouTube channel. Check your local listings for airtimes.

Guards Polo Club is one of only four polo clubs in the United Kingdom that stage elite tournaments, including the Royal Charity Polo Cup. Established in 1955 as the Household Brigade Polo Club under the presidency of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the club was renamed to the Guards Polo Club in 1969 and celebrates nearly seven decades of premier polo.

About U.S. Polo Assn. and USPA Global

U.S. Polo Assn. is the official sports brand of the United States Polo Association (USPA), the largest association of polo clubs and polo players in the United States, founded in 1890. With a multi-billion-dollar global footprint and worldwide distribution through more than 1,200 U.S. Polo Assn. retail stores as well as thousands of additional points of distribution, U.S. Polo Assn. offers apparel, accessories, and footwear for men, women, and children in more than 190 countries worldwide. The brand sponsors major polo events around the world, including the U.S. Open Polo Championship®, held annually at NPC in The Palm Beaches, the premier polo tournament in the United States. Historic deals with ESPN in the United States, TNT and Eurosport in Europe, Star Sports in India, and BeIn Sports in the Middle East now broadcast several of the premier polo championships in the world, sponsored by U.S. Polo Assn., making the thrilling sport accessible to millions of sports fans globally for the very first time.

U.S. Polo Assn. has recently been named one of USA Today’s Most Trusted Brands and has consistently been named one of the top global sports licensors in the world alongside the NFL, PGA Tour, and Formula 1, according to License Global. In addition, the sport-inspired brand is being recognized internationally with awards for global growth and sport content. Due to its tremendous success as a global brand, U.S. Polo Assn. has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, Modern Retail, and GQ as well as on Yahoo Finance and Bloomberg, among many other noteworthy media sources around the world. For more information, visit uspoloassnglobal.com and follow @uspoloassn.

USPA Global is a subsidiary of the United States Polo Association (USPA) and manages the multi-billion-dollar sports brand, U.S. Polo Assn. USPA Global also manages the subsidiary, Global Polo, which is the worldwide leader in polo sport content. To learn more, visit globalpolo.com or Global Polo on YouTube.

About Brand Machine Group (BMG)

BMG is an international leader in fashion innovation which has established itself as a vertical manufacturer and global licensing specialist with over four decades of industry experience. Partnering with recognized market leaders, BMG manages a seamless and collaborative process of designing, manufacturing, and delivering quality products while championing the DNA of a diverse portfolio of brands, spanning fashion, sports, outdoor, and homeware including adult fashion, kidswear, and accessories.

BMG’s portfolio of brands includes U.S. Polo Assn., Penfield, New Balance Kids, Duchamp, Jack Wills, Flyers American Born, Lee Kids, Peckham Rye, Wrangler Kids, Juicy Couture, Franklin & Marshall, Elle Junior and Ben Sherman. BMG reaffirms its commitment to upholding sustainable and ethical business practices by ensuring full transparency throughout its global supply chain, aligning with the ETI Base Code.

Visit brandmachinegroup.com and follow @brandmachinegroup. For appointments, contact [email protected].

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For Further Information, Contact:

Shannon Stilson – VP, Sports Marketing & Media
Phone +001.561.227.6994 – E-mail: [email protected]

Stacey Kovalsky – VP, Global PR & Communications
Phone +001.561.790.8036 – E-mail: [email protected]

Gina Digregorio – Marketing Consultant, Brand Machine Group
Phone: +44 (0) 7741 635 984 – E-mail: [email protected]

SOURCE: U.S. Polo Assn.

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Resin Solutions LLC Introduces “Stratix(TM)” Brand Architecture for Products Serving the Aerospace and Defense Applications

EXTON, PA / ACCESS Newswire / June 1, 2026 / Resin Solutions LLC, a leading provider of advanced material solutions, today announced the launch of Stratix™, a new brand identity reflecting the company’s deepened strategic focus on the Aerospace and Defense sector.

This new designation underscores the company’s long-term commitment to supporting the unique and demanding requirements of aerospace and defense customers. By clearly bringing both its existing and in-development aerospace and defense products under the Stratix™ brand name, Resin Solutions aims enhance customer confidence, streamline product selection, and further strengthen its partnerships within the sector.

The Stratix™ brand trademark will be applied to a growing portfolio of materials engineered to meet the rigorous performance, quality, and reliability expectations critical to aerospace and defense applications. Among the first products to carry the designation are Resin Solutions’ flagship and highly-specified aerospace and defense binders, R45 M and R45 HTLO, both designed to deliver high performance in demanding operational environments.

"Our Stratix™ brand architecture represents more than just a label – it is a clear signal of our dedication to the Aerospace and Defense market," said Joan Braca, CEO of Resin Solutions. "When customers see the Stratix™ name, they can expect the same deep application expertise and high-performance products they have relied on for over sixty years, as well as new, innovative products currently in development – all under a unified brand identity built exclusively with their requirements in mind."

The introduction of Stratix™ builds on Resin Solutions’ broader strategic commitment to the aerospace and defense sector – demonstrated by the company’s recently announced capacity expansion initiative for hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene-based products. Resin Solutions is proud to continue investing in its facilities, people, and innovation pipeline to better serve aerospace and defense clients globally.

For more information, please visit www.ResinSolutions.com or contact Joan Corrado ([email protected]).

SOURCE: Resin Solutions LLC

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The Heartbeat That Never Dies: How Neutrinovoltaic Technology Could End the Era of Battery-Dependent Medical Implants

As the global medical device industry confronts a structural dependency on finite power sources, researchers at the Neutrino® Energy Group are advancing a continuous ambient energy conversion framework with direct implications for cardiac pacemakers, hearing aids, and implantable devices worldwide.

BERLIN, DE / ACCESS Newswire / May 29, 2026 / Millions of people depend on tiny electronic devices inside their bodies. Every one of those devices runs on a battery that will eventually fail. Neutrinovoltaic research now suggests that the power source need not deplete at all, because it would draw not from a finite chemical reservoir, but from the continuous particle flux that permeates all matter, at all times.

Somewhere in the world right now, a patient is being prepped for an operation that has nothing to do with illness. Their heart is fine. Their pacemaker is not. The lithium-iodide cell that has kept it firing for the past seven years is approaching depletion, and so a surgeon must open the chest, extract the pulse generator, replace it, and send the patient home to start the cycle again.

More than one million pacemakers are implanted worldwide each year, and virtually every one will require at least one battery replacement surgery over the patient’s lifetime. Each procedure carries risks of infection, lead displacement, and anaesthetic complications. The same dependency plays out in miniature, millions of times daily, in the hearing aid. An estimated 430 million people globally suffer from disabling hearing loss, according to the World Health Organization. Those who wear aids know the ritual: replacing button-cell batteries every few days, often at the worst possible moment. Both devices are marvels of 21st-century biomedical engineering still tethered to 20th-century power sources.

Energy That Walks Through You

Holger Thorsten Schubart, the mathematician and Architect of the Invisible who leads the Neutrino® Energy Group, has spent nearly two decades asking a question that most of the scientific establishment was not yet ready to hear: what if the energy required to power a device was already passing through the person wearing it? “The problem is not a lack of energy,” he has said, “but the way we think about it.” Nowhere is that reframing more arresting than in the context of medical implants, where the energy has literally been present inside the patient’s body all along.

The Neutrino® Energy Group has spent nearly two decades developing technology that harvests a continuous spectrum of ambient, non-equilibrium energy inputs, including neutrino momentum transfer, cosmic muon flux, and electromagnetic fluctuations, converting these into stable electrical current through multilayer metamaterials of graphene and doped silicon.

The governing mathematical framework, known as the Schubart Master Formula, is expressed as:

P(t) = η · ∫V Φ_eff(r,t) · σ_eff(E) dV

The formula captures composite ambient input through an effective flux term that integrates multiple particle and field contributions into a single measurable framework. The system does not rely on any single energy source, but on continuous coupling to a multi-channel, non-equilibrium environment. The physical foundations underpinning each variable in the formula are anchored to peer-reviewed measurements from institutions including the COHERENT collaboration at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the JUNO experiment, and the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, as well as the Nobel Prize-winning confirmation of neutrino mass by Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald in 2015.

The underlying physics is scale-agnostic. The same graphene-based nanostructures that form the basis of larger generation units can, in principle, be adapted to the dimensions of a medical implant without any change to the fundamental conversion mechanism. Critically, not a single one of the ambient flux sources that neutrinovoltaic systems interact with is blocked by biological tissue. Neutrinos pass through the human body by the tens of billions per second. Cosmic muons penetrate skin, muscle, and bone. Electromagnetic fluctuations and thermal gradients permeate every living cell. A neutrinovoltaic module inside a pacemaker housing would be continuously coupled to harvestable ambient flux at every moment of its existence, drawing from the full, uninterrupted spectrum of non-visible radiation that surrounds and penetrates all matter, at all times.

A Pacemaker That Could Outlast Its Battery

Research into neutrinovoltaic miniaturisation suggests that a cardiac pacemaker incorporating such a module would not draw down a finite chemical reservoir in the way current lithium-iodide cells do. Instead, it would in principle harvest electricity continuously from the multi-channel ambient flux permeating the patient’s chest, around the clock, in every environment, at every altitude. With no moving parts and no cyclic chemical degradation, researchers propose that operational life under this model could extend significantly beyond current battery replacement cycles.

The safety case extends further. Lithium batteries carry inherent constraints around temperature sensitivity and, in rare cases, electrolyte management concerns. A solid-state neutrinovoltaic module contains no liquid electrolyte and no components subject to cyclic chemical degradation. For patients in remote regions where access to a cardiac surgeon may require travelling hundreds of kilometres, this distinction is not incremental. It represents the potential difference between a technology that demands infrastructure and one that operates independently of it.

The Hearing Aid That Could Forget About Batteries

Research directions within the neutrinovoltaic framework suggest that a hearing aid incorporating a miniaturised ambient conversion module could harvest continuous flux, converting the faint mechanical excitations induced in its graphene nanolayers into the microwatts required for amplification and signal processing. For elderly users with reduced manual dexterity, replacing a component smaller than a fingernail is a genuine ordeal. For users in developing nations, recurring battery costs push many to abandon their devices altogether, a dynamic documented in accessibility research across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. A self-sustaining hearing aid architecture would lower the long-term cost of hearing restoration and remove one of the most persistent barriers to consistent device use.

From Abstract Physics to Human Dignity

The Neutrino® Energy Group’s research programme, grounded in the 2015 Nobel Prize confirmation of neutrino mass, the 2017 COHERENT detection of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering, and precision measurements from more than twenty global research laboratories, is not theoretical physics for its own sake. Its most profound potential applications may be measured not in kilowatts but in surgeries avoided, in independence preserved, and in the quiet dignity of a device that works without asking anything of the person who depends on it.

Schubart captures the stakes of this research direction in a single sentence: “The deepest promise of the Master Formula isn’t merely that it can power a building; it’s that it can power a heartbeat.”

Media Contact

Office of Global Communications
Neutrino® Energy Group
International Media & Strategic Affairs
Attn: Adrian Vale
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://neutrino-energy.com/

SOURCE: Neutrino Energy Group

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