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A CONFERENCE has been staged in Brussels that has heard how the European Commission plans to reintroduce its ‘circular economy’ proposals on increasing recycling and targeting zero waste systems, including the recovery of high value industrial minerals. This broad policy was dropped from the work programme of the new Commission that took office from November 1, but proposals are now being redrafted for release by December.…

Increased demand for fire-retardant paints and coatings, and tighter regulations around the use of certain flame-retardant chemicals, is leading to a growing range of innovations in this sector. A wide range of such developments is emerging in the USA in particular, although European research is also ongoing.…

The European Parliament’s industry, research and energy committee has called for the maintenance of tariffs protecting energy intensive industries in the EU such as the ferrous metal sector following trade deal talks with the USA.
This committee is one of 14 that will be giving detailed opinions in the coming weeks on the negotiations to force a Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement between the EU and USA.…

A CONFERENCE has been staged in Brussels that has heard how the European Commission plans to reintroduce its ‘circular economy’ proposals on increasing recycling and targeting zero waste systems, including for plastics. This policy was dropped from the work programme of the new Commission that took office from November 1, but various materials sectors were unhappy and proposals are now being redrafted for release by December.…

User-friendly, energy-neutral, efficient and truly communal with innovative transport systems, towns of the future may look a lot like the Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town (SST).
The pioneering project, located 30 miles south of central Tokyo, next to the established town of Fujisawa is the brainchild of the Panasonic Corporation and 17 companies keen to test their cutting-edge technologies in transportation, energy, construction, security and utilities.…

Indonesia’s industry ministry is planning to boost the growth of the country’s domestic textile manufacturing sector in 2015, with the expansion of an initiative that will help finance businesses buying new equipment and machinery.
“Especially for the fiscal year 2015, we have budgeted [Indonesia Rupiah IDR100 billion [USD7.6 million].…

COSMETICS and personal care product packagers are creating innovative designs to attract consumers, using labelling and decoration that appeals to multiple senses. Packagers have also faced challenges related to selling products online, developing new strategies to convey the same appeal and information to consumers from a web page as on the shelf.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has released proposals on how it wants to build more common systems and promote mutual recognition in personal care product assessments and testing methods through the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), currently being negotiated between the two sides.…

A BREAKTHROUGH project that could return all olive oil waste back to the olive oil production cycle by turning it into onsite energy could bring significant profit margin improvements to the industry, while reducing its environmental impact. 
The European Union (EU)-funded pilot project Biogas2PEM-FC, based in Andalucía, southern Spain, uses  “valourisation” techniques to deal with waste, as opposed to the traditional method of “depositing or using physical, physicochemical or biological methods for detoxification, which is costly,” explained Per Ekdunge, the Swedish fuel cell technology company PowerCell’s vice  president and chief technology officer.…

A German government proposal to allow limited and conditional shale gas fracking has been welcomed by the energy industry but created unease among environmental groups who fear it may signal a return to fossil fuels. This, they argue, pay violate the spirit of Germany’s green energy policy, the Energiewende.…