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EGYPT’S PAINT AND COATINGS SECTOR MAKES BUMPY PROGRESS, BUT THE FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT
THE PAINT and coatings sector in Egypt is growing, but its progress has been unsteady, reflecting its bumpy political progress since its 2011 revolution that brought down long-standing President Hosni Mubarak. While a construction boom dominated by huge public private partnerships (PPPs) is driving up sales of decorative paint, according to industry analysts, a weak automotive sector is holding back overall growth with slow sales of refinishing paint.…
NORWAY AND EU STRIKE NEW FOOD TRADE DEAL
A new food trade agreement has been struck between the European Union (EU) and Norway. The deal will deliver particularly useful openings for the meat and dairy sectors. Norway will open a new 1,600-tonnes quota for EU-made bovine meat and smaller quotas for EU exports of chicken and duck meat, pork, hams and sausages.…
HELSINKI SHOWS GOOD PRACTICE ON HASTENING PASSENGER CONNECTIONS
IMPROVING airport management is often a matter of examining good practice overseas and for airports wanting to improve the time taken to move transfer passengers from one flight to another, their executives might learn from Helsinki Airport.
Finland’s key international airport has the fastest passenger flow in Europe for transfer passengers going on to other European destinations, with a minimum connecting time between flights of just 35 minutes, according to Finavia, the state company that operates Finland’s 21 commercial civilian airports.…
GETTING MORE OIL FROM EXISTING RESERVES WHILE LIMITING GLOBAL WARMING MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTORY, BUT COULD BE COSTLY
Enhancing the percentage of oil recovered from existing assets is a no-brainer for countries that want to maximise economic gains from their oil reserves.
In an era of apparently ‘lower for longer’ oil prices, it is high up the agenda for oil companies and governments.…
NORWAY MEAT LABELLING TOO WEAK SAYS EFTA
THE NORWEGIAN government has been told to improve its labelling controls for meat products, foodstuffs containing meat and additives used within such products. The European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Surveillance Authority has told Norway to tighten its monitoring and traceability systems following an inspection of the country’s meat labelling systems late last year (2016).…
FINANCIAL CAPACITY BUILDING ESSENTIAL IN AFRICA TO PRESERVE DECADE OF ROBUST ECONOMIC GROWTH
THE MODERATION of growth across sub-Saharan Africa last year to 1.5%, (according to the World Bank), from an average 5-7% per annum in the previous 10 years, may signal that the region needs to firm up its financial professions and institutions to help preserve its recent economic gains.…
EU ROUND UP – CEFIC ATTACKS NEW EU ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR CHEMICALS CRITERIA
THE EUROPEAN chemical industry association Cefic has criticised the European Commission’s criteria for defining endocrine disrupting (hormone affecting) chemicals, saying resulting guidance could over-regulate harmless chemicals. “For the industry to ensure that people and the environment are properly protected, it is essential that the criteria enable the identification of harmful substances.…
COMPANIES SEEK TECHNOLOGICAL EDGE IN PAINT MIXING SEGMENT
THE PAINT mixing segment is a competitive world with companies constantly seeking a technological edge to generate additional sales. Of course, the segment is diverse – spanning the development of mixers helping paint and coating companies make their products, and aiding users to apply these lines.…
COUNTRIES MULL CARBON NEUTRALITY IN WAKE OF PARIS CLIMATE CONFERENCE – BUT WILL THEY ACHIEVE IT?
THE PARIS conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) last December, of COP21, made a commitment to create a carbon-neutral world between 2050 and 2100. This means that governments and international organisations must devise policies to ensure the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by human activity equals the amount that that trees, soil and oceans can absorb naturally preventing the build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere.…
UK FOOD COMPANIES EXPORTING TO EU FACE RISKS OF PAYING DUTIES IF BREXIT FOLLOWED THROUGH
Branded food manufacturers based in Britain face a risk that their exports to the European Union (EU) will attract duties now the UK government has confirmed it will push ahead with leaving the EU following the June 23 Brexit referendum result.…