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SOYBEAN OIL - A COVID-19 SUCCESS STORY THAT MIGHT LAST
With global markets and daily consumer habits being disrupted for almost a year due to the ongoing global Covid-19 pandemic, some oils and fats sales have grown – and a key example is soybean oil. This is true worldwide, from North and South America, to Africa, Asia, and Europe.…
CASH STILL KING FOR MONEY LAUNDERING, DESPITE IN CRYPTO AND ECOMMERCE FIAT TRANSACTIONS
Anti-money laundering specialists may be focusing on how crypto-currencies and online transactions pose an increasing ML/TF risk, especially with Covid-19 encouraging ecommerce, but the reality is that cash remains the money launderers’ best instrument for moving dirty money.
That is the conclusion of Gabriel Hidalgo, a managing director at risk specialists K2 Integrity, in New York: “Cash is king for ML; it continues to be king; and on the majority of levels, illicit actors will continue to use cash,” he said.…
CAN MAKERS MUST TAKE CARE WHEN NAVIGATING THE COMPLEX WORLD OF LABELLING REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
IT goes without saying that can manufacturers and fillers have to comply with regulatory controls specifying how they make and fill cans, but maybe the biggest compliance challenge for the industry is following the world’s multifarious rules on food labelling.
Canners and fillers with contracts to supply labelled cans have to take special care given these labelling rules do not just vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, (or even within jurisdictions), these regulations are a very dynamic topic – they change, often. …
LATIN AMERICA’S PAINT SECTOR REELS FROM COVID-19, BUT KEEPS CLOSE EYE ON POST-PANDEMIC RECOVERY
LATIN America has been hit particularly hard by the Covid-19 pandemic – with Chile, Peru, Brazil and Colombia in the top-20 of countries regarding cases per million people – and its paint and coatings market and industry has faced a similarly rough ride.…
INDONESIA CHALLENGES LEGALITY OF EU PALM OIL BIOFUEL RESTRICTIONS
A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel will assess whether import restrictions created by the European Union (EU) to reduce the use of carbon-intensive biofuels comply with global trading rules.
The Indonesian government is challenging portions of the EU’s renewable energy directive (RED) linked to EU guidance limiting the indirect land use change (ILUC) of biofuel feedstock cultivation.…
ARGENTINA VALUES DIGITAL TEXTILE PRINTERS – BUT TEXTILE FINISHERS STRUGGLE TO AFFORD THEM DURING STEEP RECESSION
While Argentina’s textile industry is poised for growth over the next few years, the expansion of its use of digital printing will probably lag as companies recover from a deep recession in 2020 caused by Covid-19 and underlying economic weakness, executives said. …
COVID-19 DISRUPTS ANTICIPATED STEADY GROWTH IN 2020 WITHIN LATIN AMERICA BEAUTY SECTOR
THE COVID-19 crisis has severely depressed sales of personal care products within Latin America and it is unclear when the market will pick up.
In Argentina, for example, a coronavirus-induced lockdown has pushed the economy deeper into recession, slashing sales of most unessential beauty and personal care products.…
RIVAL WOOL EXPORT CENTRES ASSESS POTENTIAL INCREASE IN EXPORTS FOLLOWING AUSTRALIA'S DEVASTATING BUSHFIRES
INTERNATIONAL export centres for the wool industry have been considering how they will help fill gaps in supplies to the knitwear sector because of the damage caused to Australia’s wool sector by January’s devastating bush and outback fires. Extensive rain has now at last extinguished most of Australia’s bushfires, but wool growers are still assessing the damage.…
EXTENDED REALITY TECH OFFERS GREAT BENEFITS TO TEXTILE COMPANIES – BUT THEY MUST ADDRESS THE SECURITY VULNERABILITIES
INTRODUCTION – SERIES
A series of reports from WTiN is exploring the need for the textile and clothing sector to protect itself against attacks from cybercriminals as it invests in new transformative Industry 4.0 technologies – extended reality, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things.…
AMERICAS JURISDICTIONS BUILD WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTIONS, BUT AT VARYING SPEEDS
THE ROLE of whistleblowers in the Americas has been given special attention in since last August, when an intelligence officer lodged a complaint with the Intelligence Community Inspector General about a phone call by President Donald Trump to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky pressuring him to open an investigation into alleged corruption by former vice-president Joe Biden.…