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Vegetable oil companies are rightfully concerned about the reputation of key feedstocks such as soy for good environmental and social sustainability. Bad news stories about poor pay, pollution and virgin land clearances can knock consumer demand for products and that is bad for business.…

PAINTS and coatings companies have been told to re-review their products regarding their biocidal impact, in case combinations of chemicals within a preparation create a new biocide during and after use.
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has now released new guidance on so-called ‘in situ generated active substances’, saying companies that have yet to declare such chemicals for assessment can do so by September 1, 2016.…

THE GLOBAL paint and coatings sector is looking closely at sub-Saharan Africa as an emerging market, which attracted USD56.3 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2014. And as the region’s richest and most diversified economy, the United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD) has noted, South Africa was Africa’s leading FDI recipient in 2013, with a figure that had more than doubled year-on-year to top USD10 billion.…

After more than four years of protracted negotiations that included bursts of occasional intense lobbying, the biofuels standards and subsidies saga in Europe has been settled with a compromise that allows both the industry and environmental groups to draw some satisfaction.…

After the Thai military staged a coup and overthrew the country’s interim government in May 2014, many in the country’s tobacco industry wondered what policies the new regime would bring to one of the Asia’s more tightly regulated tobacco marketplaces.
One year later, the ruling junta sent a powerful signal that they would be carrying forward the tough anti-smoking measures of previous regimes.…

While solar power-generating roads may sound like a futuristic idea, the technology could soon become reality. SolaRoad, a 70-metre-long concrete bicycle path embedded with solar panels located in Krommenie, the Netherlands, has delivered promising results as a prototype. And the project’s developers are hopeful a commercially-viable product with widespread application is just around the corner.…

The European Commission has launched a review of whether subsidies promoting electricity generating and distributing capacity breaks European Union (EU) state aid rules. These are designed to make sure member states do not give their industries an unfair advantage in the EU’s single market.…

Good sourcing practice at the Indonesian mill of India-based viscose fibre giant Aditya Birla has paved the way to the company’s commitment this month to a global policy to eliminate sourcing materials from ancient and endangered forests, according to the international environmental group that helped develop the policy.…

Indian buffalo meat exports have risen by 10% to USD4.78 billion in the financial year ending March 2015, according to provisional data released by India’s Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics on Friday (May 8).
The results backed the findings of an April report by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), entitled ‘Livestock and Poultry: World Markets and Trade’, which concluded: “Larger [beef and veal] shipments from India … [have] more than offset declines by Brazil, Uruguay, and the United States.”…

The retail price of organic pork products is continuing to climb in Denmark through strengthening consumer demand driven in part by controversies surrounding animal welfare on conventional Danish pig farms.
Denmark’s organic pig farmers are now receiving a supplemental payment of Danish Krone DKK17 (USD2.55) per kilo for organic pork from meat processing companies.…