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THE SPANISH book sector has declared that it is optimistic about growth in sales at its annual LIBER International Book Fair, which wrapped up on Friday (Oct 14). A statement from the organisers said that there was a “positive feeling about the sector’s upswing”.…

Earlier this year Italian pasta giant Barilla presented its latest technological innovation: a next generation 3D printer that swaps ink for pasta dough and is able to make unique pasta shapes in just minutes.

Barilla is among the world’s first food producers to leverage the latest digital technologies and apply them to food production.…

WTSA is a member of SpiritsEUROPE; wine body the Comité Européen des Entreprises Vins (CEEV); and the European Federation of Wine and Spirit Importers and Distributors.

WTSA Spokesperson Lucy Panton said: “We will need to discuss our post-Brexit status with each group – nothing has been decided yet.…

European Union (EU) lawmakers in a key European Parliament committee are split over how to amend proposed reforms to the 28 country bloc’s automotive type approval controls. These members of the parliament’s internal market and consumer protection committee discussed on Thursday (September 29) changes suggested by British Conservative MEP Dan Dalton on proposals from the EU executive, the European Commission, to overhaul EU type approval rules – its key goal is making them sufficiently tight to prevent a repeat of the Dieselgate scandal where emissions controls were circumvented.…

MILLIONS of Euros have been released by the European Union (EU) to fund projects deepening the international gas pipeline network in eastern Europe, a key element of EU plans for forge an ‘energy union’.

One major project is a EUR179 million plan to create the Bulgaria–Romania–Hungary–Austria (BRUA) system of gas lines.…

Experts at a nuclear energy conference held by The Associated Chambers of Commerce of India (ASSOCHAM) have predicted that the country’s nuclear expansion will receive momentum given the central government is about to ratify the Paris climate change agreement.

The event, ‘Nuclear Power in India – Indigenisation and Viability’, was heard that the global warming deal will be ratified on October 2, pushing India to speed up plans to develop non-carbon power sources.…

American orders of ‘Made in Myanmar’ garments are growing, although uncertainty on sanctions and a lack of preferential market access is hindering further expansion, according to experts.

Yet a shift may be coming in bilateral trade relationships, as the April transition to a democratically-elected government headed (in practice if not in name) by Nobel Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in April, as well as ongoing political and economic reforms, has opened the door to improvements.…

Executives within Bangladesh’s poultry industry are claiming that climate change is posing major management and operational problems as temperatures cause heat stress and promote disease among birds, increasing mortality rates.  

Industry insiders say that vector-borne diseases and cases of low-pathogenic avian flu, fowl cholera, Newcastle disease, heat stroke and gumboro (infectious bursal disease) are promoted by higher temperatures in sub-tropical Bangladesh.…

COTTON

Cotton maybe one of the most popular fibres for clothing and accessories because of its universality, timelessness, and availability, but this past year has shown that the fibre is not immune to volatile economic markets. World cotton production fell by 17% to 21.65 million tonnes in 2015-2016, the lowest volume since 2003-2004, according to the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC).…

Growing competition across the world for clothing outsourcing contracts, with China not only being challenged in Asia, but by sub-Saharan African and even Russian suppliers, is pushing Asian governments to sharpen their industrial policy to retain market share, a major international conference has heard.…