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OLIVE OIL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has introduced new uniform EU rules for olive oil labelling; for instance olive and other vegetable oil mixtures cannot be marketed referring to olives, unless their ingredients are at least 50 per cent olive oil.…
PRINCES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is considering lending Pounds 25 million to British food processor Princes Ltd to improve its production, while maintaining or improving its health, safety and environmental standards.…
AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has predicted that European beef production is set to return to “more normal” levels in its report on “Prospects for Agricultural Markets: 2002-2009. Brussels says this will result from increased prices and the end of livestock destruction schemes in March 2002 (except in the UK).…
CEMENT COATING
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
SRI Lanka’s Silicon Coatings (Pvt) Ltd., the manufacture and marketer of Nippolac Paints, has manufactured a waterproofing product called Nippoflex, a cement-based roof water-proofer which is supposed to provide long- term protection from any type of roof, including asbestos, concrete, tiled, metal or aluminium.…
ASIAN PAINTS
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
COATINGS giant Asian Paints says that sales success has made it consider opening more of its Colour World units in Sri Lanka, eighteen months after it opened the retail chain on the island to coincide with its launch of its Apcolite emulsion.…
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE EXPORT Development Board of Sri Lanka has been publicising good practice from research projects designed to reduce energy consumption by the island’s ceramics industry, to cut its costs and improve competitiveness on global markets. The board estimates that energy bills account for 20 to 30 per cent of Sri Lankan ceramic company production costs.…
UK STATE AID
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has authorised the British government to grant Euro 9 million to eight coal production businesses, which can be used to offset operating losses in 2001 and January to July this year. The aid is intended to improve their economic viability by reducing production costs.…
ECSC TREATIES
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE RIGHTS and obligations flowing from international agreements entered into by the European Coal and Steel Community, which will cease to exist on July 23 when the ECSC treaty expires, are to be transferred to the main European Community, (usually known as the European Union).…
SEABED TALKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ International Seabed Authority has launched its eighth decision-making session at its headquarters in Kingston, Jamaica, a meeting which will see discussions on harvesting minerals from the deep sea. A technical workshop meeting is expected to propose specific international research projects on how mineral extraction might harm the deep ocean environment.…
SRI LANKA COAL PLANT
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE SRI Lankan Cabinet of Ministers has taken a long awaited decision to approve the establishment of a coal fired power plant, generating 300MW of energy from imported coal, (the island does not produce its own coal).…