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The European Union’s (EU) Energy Roadmap 2050 project is certainly ambitious – looking to decarbonise Europe’s energy sector – and it anticipates that carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology will play an important role. Yet, it is clear that this technology is far from ubiquitous and significant efforts will be required to enable CCS to play a key part in Europe’s CCS future.…

Five years since the start of the Arab uprisings in 2011, instability is still impacting cosmetics sales in the Levant and north Africa. Last year saw a slight improvement on overall sales in 2014, the year the Islamic State spread through northern Iraq and Syria, but figures are down on 2013, and the growth projected in 2010, according to figures from market researcher Euromonitor International and estimates from cosmetics companies.…

PRIVATE label brands for cosmetics and personal care products are attracting consumers with an increasingly wide range of offerings that stress their value-added nature, as well as affordable prices. Reflecting private labels’ innate reliance on quality and function rather than image, manufacturers supplying these products have been especially focusing on using scents to add value, from traditional florals to more adventurous notes.…

European cosmetics companies have applauded the decision by the Japanese government to abolish from January 1 import notifications on cosmetics and quasi-drugs as “great progress.”

The changes announced by Japan’s ministry of health labour and welfare have come after many years of pressure for change, notably by the European Business Council in Japan (EBC),, whose member companies say the new rules will “significantly simplify import procedures”.…

It has taken more than half a decade for the cosmetics markets of eastern Europe to finally shrug off a long-running period stagnation that has characterised the regional market. Two underlying features – the financial crisis of 2008 and the completion of multinational takeovers in the noughties that saturated these post-communist markets – lay behind the extended period of slow, low or non-existent growth.…

The cosmetics industry and market in Croatia is starting to benefit from the country’s nascent economic recovery, although it is still facing a number of challenges. The economy in Croatia, which joined the European Union (EU) in 2013, was forecast by the World Bank to grow by 1% in 2015, following six years of recession.…

THE COSMETICS and chemical sectors within the European Union (EU) have backed the European Commission after it was censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over its failure to set criteria for identifying endocrine disrupters in biocides.

Brussels was supposed under the EU’s biocidal products regulation to produce formal guidance on what constitutes an endocrine disrupting chemical, so that chemical industries such as the personal care product sector can comply with its rule that endocrine disrupting biocides should not be approved for EU use.…

THE JORDANIAN and Lebanese confectionery markets are both in a state of flux due to the conflict in neighbouring Syria, now into its fifth year. Local production has faced major competition from Syrian entrants fleeing the chaos of their home country, particularly in Jordan; while in Lebanon imports of parallel goods have soared over the past few years.…

THE DEVELOPMENT of fibre plant and tree plantations to solidify backward linkages for textile fibre within Indonesia is under consideration as the south-east Asian country seeks to diversify its fibre, yarn and textile production.

Of key importance is how textile producer the Sritex Group, which last year announced it would be building a USD250 million rayon factory in Java, to lower its dependence on imports of its key fibre.…

An unofficial ban on the import of raw textile materials from Turkey has left Russian textile enterprises struggling to find alternative supplies among local manufacturers and maintain their production cycles. The situation has escalated so far that Russia’s ministry of industry and trade has recently asked industry representatives to compile a ‘white list’ of Turkish exporters who would be able to continue shipments to Russia, while the government in Moscow weighs the possibility of an official embargo on Turkish textiles.…