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BREWING AWARD
BY ALAN OSBORN
A GERMAN manufacturer of brewery equipment has joined with a Luxembourg beer brewer to commercialise a technique that they claim can save 55 per cent of the energy required for boiling wort, a major process in beer production.…
CONGO REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINANCIAL restrictions should be imposed on companies, businessmen, ministers and soldiers charged with involvement in the shameless plundering of the mineral resources of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a United Nations (UN) committee established to investigate the problem has concluded.…
MINING INDONESIA
BY MARK ROWE
THE WORLD Bank has warned Indonesia that foreign donors may further reduce their environmental grants to the country in response to the government’s recent decision to allow several mining firms to operate in protected forests. “We can’t give our funds to improve environmental conditions where there is a high risk of not succeeding,” said Kathy MacKinnon, the World Bank’s senior biodiversity specialist.…
FIBRE BOARDS
KEITH NUTHALL
A GERMAN research group has been awarded an EU European Business Award for the Environment for developing technology to produce fibre-board from the residue wood of palm oil plantations. The Fraunhofe Institute for Wood Research’s system will help Malaysian producers create a marketable product from the 40 million tonnes of biomass waste produced annually, which is usually either burnt or stored in poor conditions.…
FIBRE BOARD AID
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the payment by the German government of Euro 25 million in investment aid to Kunz Faserplattenwerk Baruth to help it set up a new medium density fibreboard (MDF) mill, in Brandenburg, eastern Germany. The company is part of the Kunz Group, which develops, produces and markets timber-based material.…
PHILIP MORRIS NAME CHANGE
BY PHILIP FINE
PHILIP Morris Cos. Inc. has cleared another obstacle to the changing of its name to Altria Group Inc following the dismissal of an injunction by a company with a similar moniker. In November, 2001, Philip Morris proposed a name change but one month later, the company was sued by Denver financial company Altira Group LLC.…
SAIPAN LATEST
BY PHILIP FINE
MORE than 30,000 garment workers have been awarded US$20 million in
out-of-court settlements from 25 US retailers that had questionable
off-shore contractors. The stores, including the Gap, J.C. Penney and
Target, agreed to compensate workers who said they were subjected to
prison-like conditions in factories located in Saipan.…
MALL LOSSES
BY PHILIP FINE
AMERICANS seem to be falling out of love with the mall. The large shopping centres that became the favorite piazza of the suburban dweller are now being blamed for sagging retail sales. Jewellers Zale and Whitehall, shoe retailer Footstar and children’s clothing maker OshKosh B’Gosh have all blamed poor mall traffic for recent sales slumps.…
BUSH TELEGRAPH
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE BUSH administration has told the Canadian government – bluntly – that if it wants to sue big US tobacco companies it must do it in Canadian courts, not American.
Washington has urged the US Supreme Court to reject Canada’s bid to revive its US$1 billion civil lawsuit against R.J…
PASSIVE SMOKING
BY MONICA DOBIE
A FORMER waitress with lung cancer has been awarded workers compensation by the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board in a recent landmark case that may force the Canadian province’s government into banning smoking at all bars and restaurants under its jurisdiction.…