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THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is taking a hard look at hydrogen as a low carbon option to help make Europe a first climate-neutral continent by 2050, a key policy goal that is at the heart of policy-making within the new European Commission of its president Ursula von der Leyen – however he need to make H-vehicles and renewables-based H-fuel cheaper is a major challenge.  …

THE MANY properties that have contributed to graphene being described as a ‘super material’ make it an increasingly attractive choice as an ingredient in a wide range of coatings with special functionalities say researchers and manufacturers. And, with Many of these properties offering environment-friendly and sustainable benefits, graphene is being considered as a key part of the coatings industries efforts to reduce carbon emissions and hence climate change.…

WORRIES about the future of manufacturing in Europe are certainly not being applied to the continent’s nonwovens industry, which has been growing steadily in recent years. Indeed, last year, the overall production of nonwovens in Europe in 2018 grew by around 1.3% year-on-year to reach 2.76 million tonnes, (the most recent Europe wide figures released by industry association EDANA).…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a blueprint for negotiations on agreeing a permanent relationship between the European Union (EU) and the UK, which would forge chemical and environmental control relations as close as possible.

With final status talks about to begin in earnest and a UK position paper awaited, the EU executive European Commission has said that the UK should maintain the level of chemical pollution controls it has followed as an EU member state.…

HUNGARY has been making progress in developing its anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) legislation. But the European Commission is unhappy with its progress on implementing the European Union’s (EU) fourth and fifth anti money laundering directives. It sent a formal notice on February 12 that Hungary had failed to pass any legislation writing the AMLD5 law into the Hungarian statute book, and claims Budapest’s compliance with AMLD4 is partial.…

FOR rural landowners in England and Wales, the UK quitting the European Union (EU) on January 31 maybe the most important market driver in 2020. Uncertainty over Brexit has held up investment, sales and purchases, constitutional change is coming, landowners can plan with more clarity.…

The textile industry in Guatemala represents 8.9% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), but a rise in production costs is jeopardising the industry’s overseas sales competitiveness. Therefore, Guatemala producers are focusing on buying and installing cutting edge technology to improve existing operations and even create new business divisions, maintaining their competitiveness against other suppliers in the region, Alejandro Ceballos, president of the country’s Apparel & Textile Industry Association (Vestex).…

THE TEXTILE finishing chemical sector in the UK and its customers are facing administrative disruption and additional costs now Britain has exited the European Union (EU)’s REACH chemical control system, from January 1. The entire EU system has now been transplanted in law onto the British statute book, and a UK REACH system will now apply for chemical manufacturers and importers within Great Britain.…

WITH demand for plastic recycling soaring like never before, European plastics companies have told Sustainable Plastics how they use innovation and expertise to maximise are environmental efficiency and output yields. “You’d be amazed what dirt we find in pure product waste,” Jack Snijders, director of Germany’s CIFRA Recycling GmbH, told reporters during a plant visit.…

Europe’s first large-scale green hydrogen plant moved closer to reality in January (2020) when a proposed electrolysis project in the Netherlands won EUR11 million funding from the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH-JU), a European Commission/industry partnership supporting hydrogen technology innovation.…