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THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is to discuss enriching the weather forecasts supplied to airlines, airports and air traffic controllers through the World Area Forecast System (WAFS), so that pilots have much more detailed data available to avoid turbulence and tap stronger tail winds.…

INTERNATIONAL specialists in exchanging aviation systems data are highlighting for the need for developing a comprehensive global guideline for rolling out SWIM (system wide information management), an international ATC conference has been told. Speaking to this week’s (December 11-15) GANIS (Global Air Navigation Industry Symposium) at the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) headquarters in Montréal, Canada, Alexander Pufahl, ICAO’s information management technical officer, declared: “It has to be a global system.…

THE EUROPEAN industrial minerals industry has reacted positively to the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers’ formal approval, December 4, of new anti-dumping rules. Scheduled to come into force on December 20, they may help the EU impose anti-dumping duties against Chinese dumped industrial mineral exports.…

A RAFT of changes to the European Union’s (EU) fourth anti-money laundering directive (4AMLD) have now been agreed, tightening EU dirty and terror money rules following revelations in the Panama and Paradise Papers leaks and rising concern about terrorism.

The agreement between the EU Council of Ministers, European Parliament and the European Commission should see the reforms in place within two years – member states will have 18 months to implement them after the council and parliament have formal votes endorsing the package.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers finally committed, on December 18, (2017), to a target of reaching at least 27% renewable energy out of overall energy consumption by 2030. While lower than the 45% or 30% demanded by green groups and the European Commission respectively, the biofuels industry has declared that its output should be instrumental in meeting this goal.…

THE POPULARITY of soft merino wool in China is growing, with this demand offering Australian wool exporters a potential export bonanza, until – and if – Chinese wool growers develop their own merino supplies.

But for the time being, say Australian and Chinese merino experts, efforts to develop Chinese merino production remains stuck in laboratories, with Chinese consumers mistrustful of the quality of China-made wool.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Brazilian textile industry associations have joined forces to draw up common proposals to put to negotiators drawing up the clothing and textile chapters of a future free trade agreement (FTA) between the EU and Mercosur group of countries, consisting of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.…

THE EXECUTIVE secretary of the Indonesian Textile Association (API – Asosiasi Pertekstilan Indonesia) has said that he hopes his government will make progress next year in forging trade deals with the USA and European Union (EU), boosting textile exports to these key markets.…

THE EUROPEAN Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has warned of the major impact on British plastics chemical suppliers and their trading partners in Europe, should the UK push ahead with quitting the European Union (EU) as planned, on March 29, 2019.

It has released a database seeking to advise chemical producers of how their legal obligations will change.…

PERSONAL care product packagers are taking increasing care over the design and development of secondary packaging, noting that this can impart brand value, just in the same way as the elegant primary packaging that has always been part of the personal care product experience.…