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SUSTAINABILITY may be a big concept, but the road to making personal care product packaging greener is made of small incremental steps that can both provide green marketing benefits and reduce costs.

Recent innovations include reducing the size of containers, while maintaining the volume of product they hold, alongside innovations in using renewable resources and keeping packaging waste out of landfills.…

“We use our earth as if we have a planet and a half; we have a deficit relation with our natural resources. The biggest challenge facing not just business, society and government, but humanity is the question of our sustainability. And business, as usual, will do nothing to solve it.”…

SOUTH Korea’s paint and coatings sector displayed sturdy stability in 2012, weathering an ongoing global economic slowdown that has affected growth rates in Asia, as well as Europe and north America. However the industry is worried about a new environmental law that has been inspired by the European Union’s (EU) REACH legislation.…

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) scientific committee on consumer safety has called for more data on whether parabens, a widely used sunscreen ingredient, are dangerous in the amounts currently authorised under the cosmetics directive. This is a maximum content of 0.4% when used alone or 0.8% within a mixture of esters.…

CAR parts suppliers in the US, the European Union (EU) and Japan will be better equipped to comply with environmental regulations as a result of an international alliance forged by the industry, its American representative has claimed. David Lalain, vice president of the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) welcomed AIAG joining forces with the European Association of Automotive Suppliers (CLEPA) and the Japan Auto Parts Industries Association (JAPIA) in a global cooperation deal.…

EUROPEAN biofuel industry knew it was in for a rough ride when the European Commission announced last October that it would stop subsiding food-based biofuels from 2020 and support the production of secondary biofuels based on waste matter and algae. But maybe it was not prepared for how the European Parliament would try to amend the proposals by introducing regulatory distinctions between types of biofuels that discriminate against biodiesel.…

IT is perhaps a cruel irony that biocidal chemicals used by coatings companies managers to clean the world of pests and pathogens should have such a complex – some might say messy – regulatory system in the European Union (EU). But it is the truth.…

CHEMICALS used as paint and coatings ingredients have been added to the European Union’s (EU) ‘authorisation’ list because of wide ranging environmental health concerns. A listing requires companies wanting to integrate these chemicals in their products or manufacturing processes to seek permission from the European Commission first – it will be advised in making this decision by the European Chemical Agency (ECHA).…

Poland confirmed plans in 2012 to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant with a view to importing supplies from Qatar, it seemed like the latest example of eastern European energy ministries trying to avoid energy dependence on Russia. Plans to develop shale gas in Poland and the Baltic States fall into the same category, along with policies to build energy infrastructure linking Poland and its Nordic and Baltic neighbours.…

INDONESIA’S mining industry is richly endowed with natural resources. United States Geological Survey (USGS) reports stress how the country ranks among the world’s leading producers of tin, copper and nickel, with sizeable reserves of other key ores such as bauxite, gold and silver.…