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ALGAL R&D DEMONSTRATES MOMENTUM
BY ROBERT STOKES
ALGAE have been heralded as the universal raw material of the future for biofuels, agricultural feed, nutritional supplements, biochemicals and cosmetics. They gobble up CO2, can clean up waste water, and many will thrive in seawater when the fresh variety is usually limited to the sunnier climes where algae can be grown more cheaply.…
ALGAL R&D DEMONSTRATES MOMENTUM
BY ROBERT STOKES
ALGAE have been heralded as the universal raw material of the future for biofuels, agricultural feed, nutritional supplements, biochemicals and cosmetics. They gobble up CO2, can clean up waste water, and many will thrive in seawater when the fresh variety is usually limited to the sunnier climes where algae can be grown more cheaply.…
SPAIN VIEWS LONG TERM PRIZE IN LATIN AMERICA
BY ROBERT STOKES, IN MÁLAGA
JUST like El Dorado, the never-was city of gold, Latin America’s 390 million Spanish speakers, are a siren call to Spanish publishers, whose domestic market numbers just 46 million souls. There is even a side bet on 190 million Portuguese speaking Brazilians
Some publishers, lured by these big numbers, have tried and failed in the past, foundering on the reefs of censorship, economic and currency volatility, and the local business culture, though taking forever to get paid – if at all – should not have come as a shock to Spanish firms.…
INTERNATIONAL DYER AND FUTURE MATERIALS - CONFERENCE HEARS HOW EU RESEARCH PROMOTES SMART TEXTILES AND HIGHLY CUSTOMISED CLOTHING IN EUROPE
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
PAOLO Canonico, the chairman of the European Technology Platform for the future of textiles and clothing has told researchers and textile businesses he sees enormous opportunities for textile research and innovation in the Horizon 2020 programme proposed in December by the European Commission.…
GREECE: ACCOUNTANTS AND AUDITORS IN THE EYE OF THE STORM
BY MICHAEL KOSMIDES, IN ATHENS
ACCOUNTANTS and auditors in Greece have found themselves at the centre of the country’s ongoing political and economic crisis, and it is a far from comfortable place to be. Depending on who one speaks to, Greek official data had been cooked either when the country entered the Eurozone or when it asked for help; Greece was either saved by default or managed a controlled default; the conditions for the bailout loans by the European Union (EU), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are either putting Greece back on track or are deconstructing the labour and social framework of the country.…
SCIENTISTS AND COMEDIANS SAY BILINGUALS ARE BRANIER AND FUNNIER
BY KEITH NUTHALL AND KITTY SO, IN OTTAWA; AND CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
KNOWING how to speak two languages in a country where there are two official languages is always going to be a good bet. But as well as the delights of knowing you peanuts from your arachides and your gelée from your jelly, there are whole host of additional cognitive advantages to mastering two tongues rather than one.…
DENMARK CONFERENCE TOLD EUROPE MUST RAISE ITS STANDARDS ON MEAT INSPECTIONS
BY LEAH GERMAIN
VETERINARY and meat industry experts have called on meat producers across Europe to improve the quality of their meat inspections to meet current and planned tougher European Union (EU) standards. They met at an EU meat inspection conference in Copenhagen to discuss how to respond to new proposed guidelines for improved meat inspections being developed by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).…
DUTCH MINISTRY URGES EU EFFORTS TO TACKLE NEW LIVESTOCK VIRUS
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
THE DUTCH government is pressing for a coordinated European Union (EU) response to fighting the Schmallenberg virus, a damaging disease spreading rapidly amongst livestock across Europe. Probably transmitted by insects, the virus is affecting goats, sheep and cattle, causing abortions, deformities, severe diarrhoea, fever and drops in milk production.…
SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS AIM TO FACILITATE TEXTILE RECYCLING IN THE APPAREL INDUSTRY
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
REUSING and reprocessing clothing, fibres and scraps is an effective way to create sustainability in the apparel industry – however, textile recycling is currently facing barriers associated with cost, time, and technology. But, with sustainability gaining increasing importance in every industry, many services are being offered by both apparel manufacturers and other clothing and sector organisations to help improve recycling outputs.…
CONFERENCE CALLS FOR EU PROACTIVITY OVER BIOPLASTICS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has been asked to take a proactive role in promoting the use and production of bioplastics at a high level conference and exhibition staged in Brussels by industry body European Bioplastics. ‘Plastics and the Bio-Economy – The Evolution of Bioplastics’ heard calls from the organisation’s chair Andy Sweetman for bioplastics to be added as a priority topic in research and development under the planned EU ‘Innovation Union’ strategy.…