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The paint and coatings sector in China has since the beginning of 2015 been watching as regulators implement a series of stricter environmental policies, most notably amendments to the country’s environmental protection law and air pollution control law. Under the revised environmental law, fines are no longer a low, one-off financial penalty but instead accrue daily until a polluter has stopped polluting.…

NORTH America’s textile sector – of which technical textiles comprise nearly 70% production by value in the USA and just below 50% in Canada – has grown slowly when compared with global production. And growth within the industry in North America will further slow by 2020 due to competition from the Asia-Pacific region and Western Europe, according to industry analysts at Euromonitor. …

AIR travellers to Mexico City are looking forward to the opening – now scheduled for 2020 – of a new international airport, serving a conurbation of more than 21.5 million people. Construction began on November 13, the government has announced. The current Benito Juárez International Airport is operating at beyond its 32 million passenger annual capacity according to the Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México (GACM).…

How to remain competitive in the face of falling meat consumption is the main challenge facing the meat and livestock industry today, Pekka Pesonen, secretary general of European Union (EU) farmers’ organisation Copa-Cogeca, has told GlobalMeatNews.

In an exclusive interview held as the EU body launched its #livestockcounts #enjoyagrifood campaign, promoting quality European meat consumption, Pesonen said: “We must ensure the added value of eating high quality meat as part of a balanced diet is communicated effectively to the consumer.”…

The European Union (EU) and Mexico have launched talks to deepen their already close trading relationship by negotiating a bilateral agreement on importing and exporting organic products – a deal could give a much needed shot-in-the-arm for the Mexican organic meat segment.…

MULTI-COUNTRY regions such as eastern Europe do not always follow the same script when it comes to market performance. Sometimes, when major events happen, such as the global financial crisis, it is difficult for national coatings markets to buck the trend, but with the recovery now established, weakening economic headwinds, the latent differences between national markets can become clear.…

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drafted plans to led EUR1 billion to TANAP Dogalgaz Iletim, the Azeri-Turkish consortium developing the Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TAP) from the Shah Deniz production field in Azerbaijan to European and Turkish markets. The loan, which still needs approval from the EIB board of directors, will help ensure the TAP project proceeds.…

The steel industry has again told European Union (EU) officials is opposes giving ‘market economy status’ (MES) to China, arguing this would weaken EU anti-dumping measures. Industry representatives raised their concerns at yesterday’s (April 5) public hearing at the EU European Economic and Social Committee, in Brussels.…

Laboratory-grown meat has moved from a distant sci-fi concept to a realistic idea that could be commercialised and mainstream in just a few years, according to industry experts. “We aim to commercialise in four to five years, and it will become mainstream in the two to three years after that,” Prof Mark J Post, professor and chair of physiology at Maastricht University, in the Netherlands, told just-food.…

GROWING demand for European home textiles, particularly in western Europe, is boosting demand for chemical finishes and dyes used in these products. Water and soil repellent finishes as well as flame retardant chemicals remain popular, but companies are also increasingly turning to more environment-friendly alternatives.…