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LAW enforcement authorities in Austria, Belgium, Britain, Cyprus and Hungary seized on Monday (September 1) several million counterfeit pills in simultaneous operations coordinated by the European Union (EU) law enforcement agency Europol and the judicial cooperation agency Eurojust. The medicines seized are worth at least EUR10 million, according to Europol.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the full acquisition of the Belgian ground handling company Aviapartner by the French management fund HIG European Capital Partners SAS. Aviapartner is currently present at 35 airports in five European countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, where it specialises in ramp and passenger services, cargo handling and freight related services.…

Energy savings of up to 30% are possible if clothing and textile producers apply a “simple” system of cost assessment, a Brussels conference of industry experts has been told. Yet too many companies lack fine-tuned energy data and are certainly unable to quantify the money they are losing or know how to focus on the problem.…

When it comes to shipment of liquids in bulk, flexitanks are emerging as a viable alternative to traditional methods, and personal care product companies are taking notice. These huge, impenetrable and foldaway polyethylene bags that fit inside shipping containers can transport up to 24,000 litres of liquid at a time.…

The cogeneration market in Turkey is in flux. Overall combined heat and power (CHP) capacity has dropped over the past decade from 15% of total energy capacity in 2004, to 14% in 2013, primarily due to high oil and gas prices in the wake of market liberalisation that made CHP less cost effective.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched the second phase of its fuel cells and hydrogen joint undertaking, sinking EUR1.33 billion into hydrogen-based energy and transport fuel technology until 2020. The European Union (EU) is planning to contribute up to EUR665 million, leveraging at least EUR665 million from private sources.…

INDIAN knitwear manufacturers are hoping for a major growth impetus because of industry-friendly policies being rolled out by the new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government. “We are very optimistic about the new government,” Naval Saraf, proprietor of Super Knit Industries, a sock manufacturing company in Mumbai told Knitting International.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has used the momentum created by Europe’s financial crisis to push through legislation on taxation issues that have been politically unpalatable during times of prosperity and growth. But it has not brought European Union (EU) countries’ tax systems closer together through overall harmonisation, to the chagrin of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which still struggle with different systems across EU member states.…

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) confectionery sector was one of Europe’s major export earners in 2013, with the latest EU trade data showing that Euro EUR3.6 billion’s worth of chocolate, confectionery and ice cream was sold outside the EU last year.

Overseas chocolate sales were particularly impressive, rising 8.2% year-on year, rising to EUR31 million in 2013.…

European Union (EU) police agency Europol has hailed as a success a two-day operation against illicit scrap dealers, which yielded 271 arrests and identified 146 cases of theft across Europe. Law enforcement teams, backed by the EU unit, checked 8,300 scrap metal dealers in 20 European countries.…