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EXPORTS from the European Union (EU) to Russia of a wide variety of specialist coatings with military uses have been banned as a result of extensive sanctions imposed on Moscow. Imposed because of the Ukraine crisis, the EU Council of Ministers has released details of the banned goods, which include so-called ‘dual-use’ goods that have military as well as civilian uses.…

Poultry production worldwide will surge ahead in the next nine years, accounting for 28.3 million tonnes (mt) of the additional 57.7mt annual meat production projected from 2011-13 to 2023, says a new global projection. The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2014, a medium-term agricultural report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD) and the UN’s Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO), says that pigmeat will account for just 16.6mt of this growth.…

As European Union (EU) and US officials began their sixth round of negotiations on an ambitious EU-US free trade agreement in Brussels this week, American poultry practices threatened to become a lightning rod for European public unease about US food standards.…

Representatives of the European aluminium and non-ferrous metals industries are concerned the European Commission is propose split targets for aluminium and ferrous metals in packaging waste recycling, forcing the separate collection of these materials. At present, European Union (EU) recycling waste laws insists on collected metal being split from plastics, paper and glass, but not sorted by metal-type.…

PRODUCTION at Venezuela state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) has slumped under mounting financial pressures, building during the past 15 years when revenues have been tapped by its socialist government to fund social programmes, diplomatic initiatives and other non-commercial policies.…

European and American automotive manufacturers are working together in pressing US and European Union (EU) negotiators to be ambitious as they try to forge a Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement.

Erik Bergelin, director of trade and economics at the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) and Matthew Blunt, president of the American Automotive Policy Council (AAPC), have together called for the agreement to recognise the equivalence of engine emission standards and safety regulations.…

Brazilian fashion has been focusing on sustainability – not just from the environmental standpoint but also from the stance of social responsibility, according to Rafael Cervone, CEO of Texbrasil, the Brazilian Fashion Industry Internationalisation Programme.
Many Brazilian companies are looking to Brazilian cultural roots in the way of inspiration.…

INDIAN knitwear manufacturers are hoping for a major growth impetus because of industry-friendly policies being rolled out by the new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government. “We are very optimistic about the new government,” Naval Saraf, proprietor of Super Knit Industries, a sock manufacturing company in Mumbai told Knitting International.…

Many eyes will be on a court room in Shanghai on July 29 when a Chinese judge will decide the fate of one of the most prominent investigators of fraud in China. The trial of Peter Humphreys and his wife Yu Yingzheng follows a year’s imprisonment for the two, who founded ChinaWhys, a Shanghai and Hong Kong-based firm that performed due diligence, credit checks (as well as investigations of staff for possible kickbacks or embezzlement) for western corporations in China.…

COSMETICS and personal care product companies are increasingly looking to eco-friendly packaging to deliver green marketing as well as practical cost-saving advantages. Producers are seeking to raise consumers’ awareness of environmentally-sensitive products by using packaging materials such as wood and decoration such as reusable ribbons and scarves; encouraging thrift by offering refillable fragrance bottles; and saving costs by using lighter packaging materials, that can also be flagged as sustainable on labelling.…