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BY KEITH NUTHALL, IN MONTRÉAL

A GLOBAL seal of approval has been given to a proposed blueprint upgrading the world’s air traffic control systems, looking ahead to the year 2028 and beyond. Backing was given to the latest version of the Global Air Navigation Plan drafted by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) at its 12th Air Navigation Conference, in Montréal, Canada, from November 19 to 30.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

Sears

North American department store chain Sears suffered a catastrophic 2012, starting with a January announcement that it planned to close as many as 120 stores after recording poor holiday sales. The same month, reports emerged that lender CIT Group had halted loans to the company’s suppliers, and that Sears Canada was cutting 400 jobs across the country.…

BY CARMEN PAUN, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA AND KITTY SO

THE DEMAND for eco-friendly additives is growing and will continue to, as long as the paints and coatings incorporating them have a similar price and functionality those with regular additives, according to Carine Lefèvre, general manager at the Belgium-based Coatings Research Institute (CoRI).…

BY ALAN OSBORN

COATINGS companies worldwide are developing lower temperature curing systems for powder coatings, enabling them to be applied to wood and/or plastics. Also, new acrylic resins to avoid powder coating contamination problems are being developed, Polymers Paint Colour Journal has been told.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

THE US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is now working its way through a series of promised follow-ups to its exhaustive audit and reclassifying of general aviation (GA) landing facilities, most of them airports of course.

Published in May, ‘The General Aviation Airports: A National Asset’ report followed an 18-month study of public-use GA airports, heliports, and seaplane bases as identified in the USA’s National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A REPORT released by the European Union’s (EU) umbrella groups for gas and electricity regulators has claimed wholesale energy prices within the EU are beginning to converge, as cross-border sales develop. Consumer prices still varied significantly between the EU’s 27 member states, however.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS, IN CALGARY

Dr Tarnia Taverner, assistant professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Nursing knows the transition from British to Canadian nursing is not seamless. She came to Canada from England 10-years-ago as a clinical nurse, when her British army officer husband was posted in Alberta.…

BY MARK GAO, IN BEIJING

A less than flattering catch-call has lately become attached to China’s Communist Party elite: ‘Luoguan’, literally "naked officials", refers to officials whose spouses and children have migrated to another country, spending Chinese money abroad, some of it dirty, or transferred illicitly.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

IF a man can make a better mousetrap than his neighbour, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, the American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson was (erroneously) quoted as having written in the nineteenth century. Solar power researchers in the USA and Canada claim to have built not just one, but two better ‘mousetraps’ by coming up with a paradigm-shifting approach to improving both the electrical and thermal efficiencies of thin-film hybrid photovoltaic thermal (PV/T) devices.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

Significant questions about the re-elected US Administration’s readiness to stand up for American textile interests in the upcoming negotiations for expanding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal are looming in the wake of President Barack Obama’s re-election. Important decisions will be needed soon about the terms for including Vietnam in the TPP and its associated yarn forward rule of origin.…