Search Results for: China

BY KARRYN CARTELLE
ASIA’S paint and coatings industry may be growing but South Korea’s share of the market is on the decline. Indeed, the South Korea sector’s annual sales of US$3 billion make a small contribution to the global industry, where demand is predicted to reach US$83 billion this year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTELLIGENT packaging is a buzz-concept in the food sector, using chemically sensitive materials which could change colour when a food goes off. But a European Union (EU) research project is taking a step further, developing organic light emitting device materials (OLEDs) that could actually flash and beam out messages: “Don’t drink this milk, you could throw up!”…maybe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTELLIGENT packaging is a buzz-concept in the plastics sector, deploying chemically sensitive polymers which can change colour when a food goes off, or is out of date, and other uses. But a European Union (EU) research project is taking a step further, developing organic light emitting device materials (OLEDs) that could actually flash and beam out messages: “Don’t drink this milk, it is sour!”…maybe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is taking intelligent packaging a step further, developing organic light emitting device materials (OLEDs) that could flash messages, such as: “Don’t drink this milk, it is sour”. The three-year GBPounds 850,000 Modelling Electroactive Conjugated Materials at the Multiscale (MODECOM) project is coordinated by the University of Bath and will investigate the molecular properties e behind polymer-based mass produced organic light emitting devices, providing information to help develop commercially-viable designs.…

BY ANDREW CAVE
THE THOUGHT of burying millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide underground is not for the risk-averse. If carbon dioxide is injected into pores in the earth’s crust that previously held oil and gas for thousands of years, will it stay there as long?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved imposing definitive anti-dumping duties on exports into the European Union (EU) of strawberries from China. The protective tariffs would range from Euro 169.90 per tonne to Euro 204.50 per tonne, and would cover cooked, uncooked and frozen tomatoes, with or without added sugar or other sweeteners.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN honey producers want more European Union-(EU)-funded research into their sector and better coordination of member states’ national honey promotion programmes. FEEDM – the European Federation of Honey Packers and Distributors – noted the EU is the world’s second largest honey producer (after China), making 174,000 tonnes annually: 13% of global production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved imposing definitive anti-dumping duties on exports into the European Union (EU) of strawberries from China, as proposed by the European Commission – ranging from Euro 169.90 to Euro 204.50 per tonne.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN honey producers want more European Union-(EU)-funded research into their sector and better coordination of member states’ national honey promotion programmes. The call from FEEDM – the European Federation of Honey Packers and Distributors – and EU general food producers association COPA-COGECA comes in an assessment of the EU’s 2005 regulation funding honey data collection and marketing.…

BY GAVIN BLAIR, in Tokyo
As the world’s third biggest energy consumer after the United States and China, Japan has long been concerned with its lack of self-sufficiency in power generation. The low level of food self-sufficiency (40%), which has always been something of a national obsession, looks positively healthy when compared to the 16% level for energy.…