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INNOVATIVE ways of powering trains are poised for mainstream use in the global transport industry. Today, the most common trains are still those powered by diesel engines, but there is a continuing shift towards electricity and alternative power sources.

“With rail expected to play an increasingly important role in future transport systems…there is a lot of focus on how it should be more energy efficient,” said Andrew Foulkes, a communications manager at Ricardo Rail, a UK-based railway engineering and consultancy firm.…

NORTH America’s textile sector – of which technical textiles comprise nearly 70% production by value in the USA and just below 50% in Canada – has grown slowly when compared with global production. And growth within the industry in North America will further slow by 2020 due to competition from the Asia-Pacific region and Western Europe, according to industry analysts at Euromonitor. …

A strong demand for ‘jamón serrano’ – or dry-cured ham – in Asia, the US, and Canada has prompted Spain’s meat major Grupo Cañigueral to acquire Far Jamón Serrano SA, a company that specialises in the product. Jamón serrano is considered to be one of the Spain’s most prestigious and unique foodstuffs. …

Changes to labelling and advertising laws for halal food in Canada have come into force to better inform consumers and encourage halal meat producers to follow established certification systems. As of Tuesday, April 4, all halal claims – by both domestic and international suppliers – on food labels, packaging and advertising materials sold in Canada must be accompanied by the name of the organisation or person certifying it as halal.…

How to remain competitive in the face of falling meat consumption is the main challenge facing the meat and livestock industry today, Pekka Pesonen, secretary general of European Union (EU) farmers’ organisation Copa-Cogeca, has told GlobalMeatNews.

In an exclusive interview held as the EU body launched its #livestockcounts #enjoyagrifood campaign, promoting quality European meat consumption, Pesonen said: “We must ensure the added value of eating high quality meat as part of a balanced diet is communicated effectively to the consumer.”…

THE MEXICAN government is to create a formal register of organic food producers, including meat and livestock businesses, and is currently carrying out a nationwide survey to build its list. The government is to use its Agricultural and Fishery Information System (Servicio de Información Agroalimentaria y Pesquera) to build the database, which should be ready by this December (2016).…

A COST of maintaining nuclear generation capacity of between 95 GWe and 105GWe in the European Union (EU) until 2050 and beyond will cost between EUR350 and EUR450 billion over the next 35 years, the European Commission has concluded. (That is between USD398 billion and USD511 billion at current exchange rates).…

New Zealand’s butter producers may be a global force in this key dairy segment, but they have regarded the groundbreaking Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement with scepticism. Negotiations for the TPP produced a deal last October (2015), and although New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra and the DairyNZ producers association declared they had secured increased access to some key markets – Japan, Canada and the United States all increased butter quotas to varying degrees – there was general agreement that the gains had been modest.…

The new business director of Birla Cellulose (part of India’s Aditya Birla Group), Dilip Gaur, has his priority set: to build on the popularity of the Liva fabric and take it to new heights.

Barely two weeks into his new position as the head of multi-billion dollar Aditya Birla Group’s cellulose business, Mr Gaur told Twist International, “My focus will be to see how I can scale it up.…

It is high time universities started to measure more what achieve in student learning, and less in enrolment, the Presidents’ Forum of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) has been told. The president of the Netherlands’ Maastricht University’s, Professor Jo Ritzen, referenced an American study in 2011 which found that many USA university and college students did not learn much at all.…