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CLOTHING industry leaders in the USA met on Wednesday (Nov 5) in New York and considered whether America’s mid-term elections on the previous day had made securing agreement on the critically important Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) more difficult.

With the opposition Republicans taking control of the US Senate, and consolidating control of its House of Representatives, the task of President Barack Obama in securing special rights to ratify a deal got harder.…

WITH just over 12 months to the launch of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Economic Community (AEC), experts anticipate that the European Union-style economic union will promote trades in industrial minerals.

The 10 ASEAN nations have been moving towards a more cohesive approach to minerals trading for many years.…

AROUND 140 billion cubic metres of associated natural gas from oil production is still burned off annually, according to World Bank analysis of satellite images from the United States’ (US) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Flares light up the night sky in regions such as the Arabian Desert and America’s Bakken formation in North Dakota, where shale oil production is booming.…

THE BRITISH government has been accused of trying to block agreement over European Union (EU) legislation curbing lightweight plastic bags usage to favour a UK plastics company with close links to the country’s ruling Conservative Party.

A Danish Green member of the European Parliament (MEP) Margrete Auken made the claims ahead of an important ‘trialogue’ meeting on Monday (November 17) between representatives of the parliament, European Commission and the EU Council of Ministers, to agree the directive.…

THE EUROPEAN automotive industry has declared that it is satisfied with the new greenhouse gas emissions policy agreed by the European Union (EU), which covers carbon controls up to the year 2030. Under the agreement set by heads of government within the European Council – the EU’s highest policy making body – industries such as auto-makers who are not included within the EU emissions trading system (ETS) must by 2030 reduce emissions by 30% compared to 2005 levels.…

A FREE trade deal struck between the European Union (EU) and Ecuador should benefit European auto manufacturers with increased market access in Ecuador, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) has told wardsauto. In a statement, ACEA welcomed the inclusion of Ecuador into the Andean free trade agreement previously concluded by the EU with Peru and Colombia.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) seems to have sparked a regulatory trend with its REACH chemical control system, with more and more countries in Asia adopting REACH-inspired chemical management laws. Thus textile finishing units, companies and suppliers will have to pay increasingly close attention to chemical regulations in Asia-Pacific countries such as China and South Korea.…

INNOVATIONS in bottles and jar manufacture, from using waste food as feedstock to creating gas bubbles in traditional materials to lighten packages and reduce material inputs, are helping personal care product companies reduce costs and their environmental footprint simultaneously.

And where companies are really smart, they can use these innovations to improve aesthetics, and add functionality features.…

The mainland Chinese bathroom product market has in 2013 grown in value and volume at healthy year-on-year rates of 12.8% and 8.6% to USD2.7 billion and 3.06 billion units respectively. Canadean, the market research company producing these figures, attributes growing per capita consumption to rising incomes as well as the increased availability of products.…

Consumers in Japan are notoriously fickle and constantly in search of the next greatest product – and in a nation that takes its food very seriously, that applies doubly to the confectionery sector.

Sales of ice cream have been strong in recent years and continue to grow, although chocolate confectionery sales came to Japanese Yen JPY342 billion (USD2.95 billion) in the calendar year 2013, a minor contraction on the previous year – blamed on poor weather during the traditionally busy summer months.…