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WORLD leader in viscose staple fibre, Mumbai-based conglomerate the Aditya Birla Group has boosted its sustainability policies through a social and agro-forestry programme designed to reduce the environmental and community impact of its in-house fibre sourcing.

Focused on its operations in Karnataka, India, the group has launched what it calls a ‘Better Viscose Initiative’, developing new in house cloned eucalyptus fibre sourcing plantations that are about to come online, supplying quality fibre for Birla operations.…

The gradual opening up of trade relations between Cuba and the United States has sparked a raft of bold predictions about how Cuban cigars are poised to sweep into the US premium cigar market. However, Cuban producers will have to navigate several serious obstacles if they are to lay claim to a significant market share, not the least the potential rolling back of détente by the Trump administration in Washington DC – at present a question being asked by many cigar traders.…

The German paint and coatings industry is predicting that its sales will grow steadily in the coming year, as Europe’s largest economy continues its steady economic good fortunes. The World Bank forecasts that 2017 gross domestic product (GDP) growth will be 1.6% and in 2018 it will be 1.5%.…

THE OLIVE oil industry has traditionally been dominated by some key major European players, notably Spain, Italy and Greece, but with global consumption rising, production is emerging in countries which have previously relied on imports.

International Oil Council statistics show how new production centres are being created.…

The Syria conflict is into its sixth year, as are the multilateral sanctions imposed on the government in Damascus. How effective have the sanctions been, given the Syrian regime’s survival? And where may have funds from members of the regime, and those linked to it, gone?…

THE EUROPEAN Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has added paint and coating ingredient Bisphenol A (BPA) onto its candidate list of substances of very high concern (SVHCs), whose use could be made subject to special European Union (EU) authorisation under the REACH chemical control system.…

Arab Gulf governments are repeatedly accused of aiding terrorist financing on and, more often, off the record. Calls to get tough on these states have been sidelined by political and economic expediency, while Gulf moves to curb terrorist financing have been lacklustre and there may be risks ahead, reports Paul Cochrane, in Beirut.…

AFTER culling more than 500,000 chickens in late November and early December 2016 due to a bird flu outbreak, poultry farmers in Japan have been encouraged by Japanese consumers’ loyalty to a long-held Christmas tradition: eating fried chicken. Data released by Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), which has strong market share in Japan, has shown that sales continued to rise this past festive season, with the firm achieving 7.9% sales growth over December 23–25 year-on-year, with sales of Japanese Yen JPY5.92 billion (USD51.4 million).…

India’s Patanjali Ayurved Ltd has rejected a December (2016) ruling against the booming packaged food company in a misbranding case as politically motivated and will appeal, the company’s managing director Acharya Balkrishna told just-food in an exclusive interview.

Mr Balkrishna, who also owns 94% of the company shares, criticised the judgement from the additional district magistrate in Patanjali Ayurved’s home city of Haridwar, Uttarakhand, who fined the company Indian Rupees INR1.1 million Rupees (USD16,100) for selling certain food products, including mustard oil, in 2012 with its own labels, as Patanjali products, even though they had been manufactured by another company.…

October’s ground-breaking deal in the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to curb global aviation emissions growth after 2020 through a global market-based measure (GMBM) is facing major challenges in the months ahead to gain political acceptance in both the European Union (EU) and the United States.…