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REACH TO HAVE GREAT IMPACT ON ASIA PAINT AND COATINGS INDUSTRY
BY ALAN OSBORN
PAINT and coatings manufacturers in the Asia Pacific region could be storing up trouble for themselves if they fail to grasp and act on the full implications of the European Union’s (EU) newly minted REACH system for classifying and labelling chemicals.…
COSMETICS MARKET CONTINUES TO MATURE IN INCREASINGLY PROSPEROUS CHINA
BY MARK ROWE
AN EXHIBITION centre in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou will next month (March) be the venue for Asia’s largest personal care trade conference. Manufacturers, formulators, scientists and suppliers will converge to promote new ranges to what is now recognised as being the world’s most burgeoning market: China.…
ISO LAUNCHES COMPETITION TO ENCOURAGE UNIVERSITY USE OF GLOBAL STANDARDS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNIVERSITIES and colleges that promote the usefulness of global standards in research, business and public administration will be honoured this summer in new award launched by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO). Nominations for entries have now closed and winners of the Swiss Francs 15,000 (GBPounds 6,143) ISO Award for Higher Education in Standardisation will be will be announced in September 2007, at the ISO general assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.…
EUROPE CATCHING UP WITH USA ON INNOVATION SAYS REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is catching up with the United States in innovation, a European Commission-financed statistical report has claimed, although the US still has many significant advantages. This year’s European Innovation Scoreboard (2006) concludes: “The innovation gap between the EU [minus new members Bulgaria and Romania] and Japan, and in particular with the US is decreasing.”…
JAPAN COMMERCIAL CRIME FEATURE
BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
JUST as they are inventive in the world of business, the Japanese can be similarly clever when it comes to getting around inconvenient regulations on commerce, reports Julian Ryall, in Tokyo.
THEY may be better behaved than many of their counterparts in the rest of Asia, but many Japanese corporations have a very different attitude to breaking the rules than they did before the country’s recent “lost decade” of economic stagnation.…
AIRLINE FOOD INDUSTRY TOUGHS OUT ECONOMIC TURBULENCE
BY MARK ROWE
IN-FLIGHT catering has experienced a turbulent ride in recent years. Self-evidently, this sub-sector of the food industry’s fortunes are inextricably linked to those of the aviation industry and, put simply, fewer passengers, means fewer food sales.
Yet as the aviation market has recovered in the wake of the terrorist attacks on New York in 2001, in-flight caterers have seen an upturn in business – and new demands, many of which feed into additional demands and opportunities for food manufacturers, who, along with processors and cooks have to be eclectic and extremely versatile.…
CRICKET WORLD CUP SPARKS CARIBBEAN PAINT BOOM
BY JAMES FULLER, in Port of Spain
CRICKETERS and illegally-licensed drivers are two of the more unusual factors currently affecting the Caribbean paint market.
The impending Cricket World Cup, to be held in the West Indies during March and April 2007, has spawned a flurry of construction activity with resultant benefits for the paint industry.…
EFSA APPROVES NEW SALMON FEED ADDITIVE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has cleared the safety of a new feed additive for salmonids – ‘L-histidine monohydrochloride monohydrate’, which is being produced by Japanese company Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Ltd. EFSA concluded that the amino acid-derived product was considered safe for the target animal, consumer, user and the environment.…
JAPAN REFINES NUCLEAR SAFETY CONTROLS
BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
ON October 9, North Korea carried out its notorious nuclear test in a mine shaft some 240 miles to the north of Pyongyang. The North Korean government proclaimed the test to be successful and an "historic event."…
AUTO INDUSTRY Co2 RECYCLING DISAPPPOINTS
BY ALAN OSBORN
Brussels has expressed disappointment at the European motor industry’s voluntary efforts to curb CO2 emissions from new cars and has raised the prospect that legislation, possibly involving tax disincentives, may now have to be considered. The voluntary commitment made in 1999 by the European, Japanese and Korean car manufacturers was to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in new cars to 140g/km by 2008/09 but new figures released by the European Commission show that in 2004 the average level was still 161g/km.…