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THAILAND maybe in political stagnation, with its military government unlikely to stage elections until November at the earliest, but its paint and coatings market is expanding robustly. Demand for coatings in Thailand, during the whole of 2017, was estimated at 510,000 tonnes worth USD1.5 billion, according to US-based consultancy for the chemical industry Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s ‘third circular economy package’ of pro-recycling reforms and regulations, proposed January 16 which contains an ambitious European Union (EU) plastics strategy, should be enshrined in hard law, with sector-wide targets, plastics industry experts have told Plastics News Europe.…

ONLINE-savvy cosmetics consumers are becoming more adventurous – gone are the days that they would only trust the quality of traditional brands bought sight unseen on the web. Instead, consumers are investigating product ingredients carefully, as well as online reviews, and armed with such information, are often choosing to buy emerging, smaller brands over those established, known ones.…

In nearly three decades of public service in politics and accounting, Bermuda’s Patricia Gordon-Pamplin, FCCA, has earned a reputation as a warrior for fairness and good governance.

“I got actively involved in politics to fight a cause,” she says. “My personal approach to life is if you have the ability to do something you have the responsibility to do it.…

SALES of cosmetics and toiletries in the Benelux countries (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) may be steady, but these developed markets are shifting amid growing diversity in distribution. Products are increasingly bought online and in non-traditional channels such as budget, lifestyle and fashion stores.…

A DRAFT agreement on how the UK will exit the European Union (EU) would preserve any existing mutual recognition of accounting and auditing qualifications within the remaining EU and a Brexited Britain. The proposed deal, released by the European Commission, says that EU and British accountants living abroad in the EU and the UK would retain “the right to pursue the profession under the same conditions as its nationals”, if they had already secured such recognition under existing EU laws on mutually recognising qualifications.…

INDONESIA’S textile and garment exports rebounded strongly in 2017, rising about 5% to USD12.4 billion after four years of stagnation, the head of the country’s textile industry association has revealed.

Factory relocation, political stability and less labour unrest contributed to the growth, said the chairman of the Indonesian Textile Association (API – Asosiasi Pertekstilan Indonesia), Ade Sudrajat.…

Efforts to safeguard the security of supply of gas to the European Union (EU) and its countries are gathering pace after recent EU regulatory changes. Gas transmission system operators (TSOs) are now developing a new, collaborative system for managing supply crises.…

EXPANSION within the paint and coatings industry and market in the United States managed to outpace the US economy in 2017, growing at about 3% in volume (regarding production) and over 3.3% in value (sales), ahead of the most recently recorded GDP growth rate of 2.6% as of Q4 of 2017.…

Sharing best practice and harnessing cross-border co-operation will help Pacific Rim countries overcome challenges in meeting human resources (HR) demands, as experts endorse a new initiative focusing on HR development amidst increasing technological changes to the workplace.

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Framework on Human Resource Development in the Digital Age was adopted by the 21 APEC member countries at the Asia Pacific Economic Forum, in Vietnam, in May last year.…