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THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) maybe tangling with the potential impact of Brexit, but it is doing so while it agrees its next medium-term budget for 2021-2027 – and this includes earmarking billions of Euros for the nuclear industry.

Combining research spending under the Euratom portion of the Horizon Europe research and development programme, with increased expenditure on fusion reactor ITER, as well as decommissioning funds, the EU will continue to be a major financial supporter of Europe’s nuclear sector, even assuming Britain’s probably postponed departure occurs.…

Smart coatings are being applied to objects, ranging from fabrics to walls, pipelines and medical devices, to act as sensors and facilitate interaction between people and machines – and potentially save huge sums of money in repair bills.

These technologies are developing fast and offer functionality that extends way beyond smart coatings that can detect cracks, scratches and abrasions and heal themselves – as useful as those qualities are.…

THE UNITED States and Canada maybe two developed countries that have long-established anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) systems, but these have been found wanting by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). While both countries continue to introduce AML/CFT reforms, they are unlikely to meet some key FATF demands.…

Transaction monitoring systems (TMS) are supposed to detect suspicious activities and provide useful information to AML/CFT law enforcement, but they are proving ineffective, with more than 90% of filings in the USA false positives, according to former chair of the US House of Representatives sub-committee on terrorism and illicit finance Steve Pearce.…

BOTH France and Germany are facing legal action by the European Commission over their failure to implement the European Union’s (EU) 2015 fourth anti-money laundering directive (AMLD – 2015/849) correctly.

While both countries have written the legislation into national law, the EU’s executive has concluded that certain provisions are missing.…

Tunisia’s textile and garment manufacturers hope that the signing of a new public/private partnership pact with the government will enable industry to meet its full potential.

Tunisian head of government (Prime Minister) Youssef Chahed signed on February 21 an agreement with UTICA (Tunisian Union of Industry, Business and Artisans) and FTTH (Tunisian Textile and Garment Federation) to create a public/private partnership to push through a five-year recovery and development plan.…

THE INTRODUCTION of a new environmental protection tax in China last (WHAT MONTH?) (2018) has pushed up the price of textiles manufactured in this country, increasing costs for Chinese clothing manufacturers, experts have told just-style. However, concerns that the new technological investments needed to reduce manufacturers’ liability under the law would cause wholesale closures of units have not come to pass.…

INDONESIA is rolling out its ambitious plan to digitalise its clothing and textile industry, a key policy devised to meet the government’s goal of helping the country become among the world’s top five textile and apparel producers by 2030.

The plan was unveiled last August (2018), encouraging Indonesia’s growing apparel industry to adopt industrial revolution 4.0 technologies such as virtual reality, 3D design, automation and using the internet of things.…

The president and CEO of the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) has said that he did not just expect by the Trump administration’s aggressive stance on tariffs, but that its protectionism may now start to ease as the 2020 election looms.…

India’s fast-growing potato chips market has huge potential for future growth, driven especially by rising demand in the rural markets, where two thirds of India’s 1.3 billion people still live.

For example, in the fast moving consumer goods segment, India’s rural market accounts for 40% of the national sales and is growing at about 10% annually, which is faster than the urban markets, said a ‘Indian Rural Market’ report issued by Confederation of Indian Industries in March 2017.…