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INDUSTRIAL minerals companies need to better manage their communications in an increasingly interconnected world, the CEO of Brazil-based Nexa Resources S.A. told this year’s Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention.

In comments echoed by Canadian colleagues, Tito Martins, said he felt that the industry must change the way it engages with an expanding number of potential partners, from local communities and environmentalists, as well as regulators and financiers.…

MAJOR shifts in the power of exporting countries within the meat and livestock sector in the past decade have been identified in new statistical analysis released by the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The global body has noted how India between 2006 and 2016 became a bovine meat export power house (notably in buffalo meat) with overseas sales rising from 79,400 tonnes (1.9% of world exports) to 1.2 million tonnes (18.7%) and the world’s largest exporter to boot.…

THE UK’S Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) has said if Taiwan lifts its current ban on British pork exports this year, it hopes to see the industry sell about USD15 million’s worth of the meat to the island in the first full year.…

ONLINE-savvy cosmetics consumers are becoming more adventurous – gone are the days that they would only trust the quality of traditional brands bought sight unseen on the web. Instead, consumers are investigating product ingredients carefully, as well as online reviews, and armed with such information, are often choosing to buy emerging, smaller brands over those established, known ones.…

In nearly three decades of public service in politics and accounting, Bermuda’s Patricia Gordon-Pamplin, FCCA, has earned a reputation as a warrior for fairness and good governance.

“I got actively involved in politics to fight a cause,” she says. “My personal approach to life is if you have the ability to do something you have the responsibility to do it.…

EXPANSION within the paint and coatings industry and market in the United States managed to outpace the US economy in 2017, growing at about 3% in volume (regarding production) and over 3.3% in value (sales), ahead of the most recently recorded GDP growth rate of 2.6% as of Q4 of 2017.…

THE AUTOMOTIVE sector is a hotbed of growth for industrial performance materials like nonwovens. And the global market for such materials have the potential to cross the EUR2 billion mark soon, according to Germany-based Freudenberg Performance Materials Holding SE & Co KG.…

Australia has today (January 16) requested formal talks with Canada at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), where it will pressure the Canadian government to liberalise wine trading restrictions in four of Canada’ provinces. These are British Columbia (BC), Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia.…

TARGETING online fraud as businesses, government and consumers increasingly conduct business and transactions via the Internet is an increasing priority for anti-fraud technology providers.

Real-time identification of potential frauds is a key focus of new systems developed and released in the past year.…

MORE airports will be able to welcome the largest civilian airliners from 2020, a senior Boeing manager told an International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) conference this week (Dec 12), as the manufacturer is confident it will roll out large planes with folding wing-tips by that year.…