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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament and the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers have compromised on the final shape of a directive reducing sulphur content in marine fuels. The result is legislation that permits higher sulphur usage than the parliament wanted, cutting its marine fuels content to 1.5% by 2007, for all vessels in the Baltic, the North Sea, and the English Channel, and passenger ships in all EU seas and oceans.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF) has called on the European Union’s (EU) governments and car industries to adopt long-term innovative strategies that guarantee a sustainable future for the EU automobile industry, a key purchaser of steel and other metals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN research network EUREKA has launched a project to design an industrial system capable of creating fine mineral fibres from ceramic materials, using a super-hot plasma jet reactor. This could convert materials such as sand, dolomite and glass waste into an “ultra thin mineral fibre used for wide range applications”, said a EUREKA note.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE STUDENT drinks market in the United States could be more lucrative than official statistics have suggested. A study in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research concludes college students underestimate volumes when asked how many drinks they consume, because the measures they pour are larger than standard amounts.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN research has shown drinking alcohol causes tobacco cravings even amongst light smokers consuming 10 or less cigarettes per day. A study in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research found when light smokers drank four alcoholic drinks, rather than two, they wanted to smoke, while smokers given placebo drinks without alcohol or less than four alcoholic drinks did not.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TASMANIA’S metals industry is enjoying a welcome resurgence, with non-ferrous metals leading the charge, nickel, copper and tin being the main players. Miners in the Australia island state are reluctant to call it a ‘metals rush’ but it is the most significant set of resource finds for more than 100 years in the island.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON and KEITH NUTHALL
THE SPORTS and entertainment industries thirst for sponsorship, and with the ever-growing boom in televising sporting events worldwide via satellite, the chance to expose a drinks company logo to world audiences in their billions should make sponsorship a sellers’ market.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A RECENT Canadian survey into drivers falling asleep at the wheel has revealed that a majority of the cases occurred in the late afternoon and not at night, a more obvious presumption. The study, conducted by the country’s Traffic Injury Research Foundation, said that roughly one-third of the drivers who admitted to dozing off said that it occurred in the afternoon.…

BY MARK ROWE
IT is tempting to think that all is well in the Russian cigarette market. And, in fairness, in many ways this is the case. Filter and light cigarettes production is growing, while the manufacture of plain cigarettes and filterless papirossi is decreasing.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE RUSSIAN oil and gas industry is one sector where comparison with the matryoshka doll – the dolls beloved by tourists that open up to reveal a series of ever smaller dolls within – seems particularly apt. Inside the outer doll, which represents the industry as a whole, you find a smaller doll representing Gazprom, the natural gas monolith.…