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BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
MICHIGAN-BASED Aisin World Corp., a subsidiary of Japanese auto parts giant, Aisin Seiki Co. Ltd., has announced its expansion into Canada through the opening of a plant in Woodstock, in southern Ontario.

Aisin, makers of brakes, transmissions, engine parts and other components, will produce body moulding and windshield trim for a Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc.…

BY MARK ROWE
A JAPANESE firm and a soap manufacturer have produced a laundry detergent made from used cooking oil. Residents in Tokyo take their used cooking oil to 28 collection points in the city from where it is removed to a factory and initially filtered to remove sediments and impurities.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
NIPPON Paper Industries Co., Ltd. of Japan has developed a new type of printing paper called Pegasus Harmony, that is lightweight, white and prevents strike through, the penetration of printing through the paper). The company says that its luster has been improved, with three-dimensional images of photographed products being displayed more clearly, with sharply reduced glaring.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND PHILIP FINE

IN the aftermath of the September 11 tragedy, the shocking images of two planes slamming into two of the most famous buildings in the world fuelled a strong desire tighten up security systems around the world, especially in civil aviation.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
A PIONEERING Australian stem cell company is teaming up with an international Japanese biopharmaceutical firm to build Japan’s first dedicated embryonic stem cell company. The expansion into Japan is part of Melbourne-based Stem Cell Sciences’ strategy to create a global cell therapy company.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
The European Parliament has accepted last year’s voluntary agreement between the European Commission and the European Automobile Manufacturers Association on pedestrian safety, so long as Brussels proposes a Framework Directive underpinning the deal with legal commitments.

The move is seen as a compromise between MEP’s opposing a detailed Directive laying down specific rules on car design and those in the European Parliament that do not trust carmakers to introduce measures to protecting pedestrians.…

Keith Nuthall
THE JAPANESE government has promised to annually increase import quotas for silk from China until 2005, when, under the terms of the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Textiles and clothing, they will be scrapped altogether. Until then, Japan has promised to widen quotas following consultations with the Chinese government.…

BY MARK ROWE
ONE hundred years on, the wheel has turned full circle and brands are again at the forefront of BAT’s business. “We started in brands and territories,” said Jimmi Rembiszewski, BAT’s marketing director. “That wisdom became a little lost when BAT diversified but today we are much more brand-centric.…

KEITH NUTHALL
JAPAN has been criticised by the Textile Monitoring Body of the World Trade Organisation for failing to establish new liberalised quotas for imports of Chinese silk yarn and fabric by the start of this financial year. In a paper issued at a recent meeting, the TMB said that it was “particularly concerned” at the omission, and said that in future it expected to be “informed by Japan as soon as possible on the timing of the annual consultations between Japan and China, as well as on the trade levels to be determined for both silk yarn and silk fabric for the Japanese fiscal year 2002.”…

BY MARK ROWE
JAPANESE companies Tomen and Toyota Tsusho are to supply four million tons annually of high quality low-sulphur from the Australian company Oakbridge Ltd to fuel a controversial coal-fired power plant in Thailand. The coal has been chosen because it contains significantly less sulphur than domestic coal used in Thailand and should minimise sulphur oxide emissions.…