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• July 15, 2026

Realta Fusion has spent the last two years looking for a place to build its research and development facility. In the end, the former Oscar Mayer factory in Madison, Wisconsin was chosen. “From sausages to fusion,” Kieran Furlong, co-founder and CEO of Realta Fusion, told TechCrunch with a laugh. The new center, called Forge, will