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EUROPE’S research universities has called on the academic publishing sector to stop double-dipping when charging researchers and their institutions for subscriptions and fees for processing contributed articles. The League of European Research Universities (LERU), which represents senior institutions such as the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, is unhappy such double fees are charged under ‘hybrid open access’ systems.…

For more than a decade, smart coatings have been on the cusp of revolutionising much of the way in which paint industry goes about its business. The number of products that have made it from the lab to the open market remains relatively few, but growing.…

Sweden’s ministry of agriculture is funding a new pilot-project that seeks to establish if holding sows in farrowing crates allows more piglets to survive if the sow is immobilised during lactating.
Under current animal welfare laws, pig farmers in Sweden are required to ensure that sows that have just given birth are housed in separate stalls, where they are able to freely move around.…

AT a time when telecommunications companies worldwide see their average revenue per user (ARPUs) flattened in a hypercompetitive environment, telcos are looking for the best solutions to exploit their data to boost customer experience and generate new revenues. Dallas, USA-based Tektronix is a strong player in this field, with experience of the mobile segment, offering systems capturing all network information to provide insight through analytics applications.…

In the Gulf, the harsh desert climate has always made agricultural production difficult, so fats in the form of animal lard or milk ‘ghee’, have traditionally dominated diets.
But population growth in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates – UAE), rising affluence, booming ex-patriot populations, and increasing diversity in imports, have driven increases in sales of higher end edible oils in the region.…

EGYPT’S USD515 million paint market (Egyptian Pounds EGP3.93 billion), as valued by market researchers Frost & Sullivan) is still reeling from the impact of the country’s 2011 revolution, along with sluggish economic growth, but the country’s burgeoning population growth is keeping demand afloat.…

Ethiopia’s appointment of the Vitol Group, the Switzerland-based and Dutch-owned physical oil trading major, to supply Ethiopia with petroleum imports in 2015, marks a sea-change for this key sub-Saharan Africa market.
Vitol is replacing the Kuwaiti Independent Petroleum Group after it had supplied the Horn of Africa country with petroleum products for five years.…

MIDDLE Eastern national oil companies do not always spring most readily to mind when demand for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is discussed. The most obvious example of a country ‘least likely to’ need EOR is Saudi Arabia, with its vast oil reserves and a history of being able to rely on natural lift to produce.…

The green energy sector is quietly confident that the European Commission will accept that the British government’s support for the conversion of Lynemouth Power Station from being coal to biomass-fired complies with European Union (EU) state aid law. This is despite the fact that the Commission has launched a detailed inquiry into the government’s FID [Final Investment Decision] Enabling Investment Contract for the work.…

One of Turkey’s leading producers of mattresses and other textile bed products has told WTiN.com that the country’s textile industry is benefiting from a significant increase in demand for such products.
Berna İlter, co-director of BRN Sleep Products, based in Kayseri, in Turkey’s Central Anatolia region, said growing wealth across the country has prompted a shift in bed buying purchases.…