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BY KEITH NUTHALL

SCIENTISTS from a Euro EUR14.6 million research project are to unveil progress at a June 1-3 nanotechnology conference in Budapest on their goal of using nano-medicine to fight Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers in the NAD Project have tried to make a virtue out of the environmental concern that nano-particles can breach the blood-brain-barrier.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EURO 2.8 million European Union (EU)-funded research project is developing new technology to incorporate warming and cooling phase-changing materials (PCMs) within textile fibres. The ‘Novel temperature regulating fibres and garments’ (Noterefiga) project has been exploring novel ways of incorporating PCMs in fibres, so that when body temperatures increase the PCM melts and absorbs latent heat, crystallising when the temperature drops and releasing heat for the wearer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A SERIES of bilateral civil aviation agreements negotiated by the European Union (EU) have remained unenforced because some EU member states have failed to ratify their terms. The European Commission has issued a report branding this "unfortunate", noting this "has the consequence of delaying their entry into force".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is fighting European Union (EU) member states who want to tightly restrict the use of creosote across Europe. It has proposed a regulation under the EU’s biocides directive saying creosote can be widely used, with appropriate protection for manufacturers, end-users and precautions to prevent creosote polluting watercourses.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

AS companies are constantly trying to appeal to consumers by offering attractive and practical new packaging innovations, bag and sack converters are also continually looking for new ways to make the converting process as seamless and state-of-the-art as possible.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

CLOTHING and accessory consumers are fickle at the best of times, and trying to nail down their desires in the growing eco-fashion niche market is proving especially difficult as the industry moves toward environmental responsibility.

On the one hand consumers, (especially young people in mature western markets), are increasingly aware of the environmental and social footprints of fashion and textile production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is developing an innovative business model which can allow consumers to design and choose their own clothing online, with manufacturers shipping remotely-controlled bespoke work. The Euro 5.17 million Open Garments project aims to create a secure and practical electronic communications system delivering customer requirements to manufacturers, who can act on them swiftly.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH

HUNGARY, which currently holds the European Union’s (EU’s) rotating presidency, made a little noticed promise in January to put organised crime well and truly on the EU agenda. Commercial Crime International attended a Brussels conference where senior figures admitted the EU’s response has been far too weak.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced another Euro EUR172 million’s worth of funding for the European Union’s (EU) Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), with eight new public-private research and development projects being launched. These will develop new patient treatments for cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and infectious diseases, said Brussels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A BELGIUM-coordinated research project, part-funded by the European Union, has developed novel ways of introducing enzymes into textile materials, giving them special biotechnological properties. The BIOTIC project (biotechnical functionalisation of (bio)polymeric textile surfaces), headed by the University of Ghent, worked on modifying and functionalising polyethylene terephthalate (PET) textile materials, altering their chemo-enzymatic surfaces and incorporating biocatalysts into fibres.…