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European steel industry representatives have asked the European Commission and the European Union (EU) member states for help dealing with critical issues impeding the sector such as high energy costs, climate change adaptation and production capacity issues. Convened together in a High-Level Roundtable on Steel, a high-level meeting organised today by EU industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani, the group released a series of recommendations on how to improve the EU steel sector’s performance.…

THE WORLD’S first marine phosphate extraction project, offshore from Walvis Bay, in Namibia, is to be underpinned by demand from an unexpected agricultural revolution in what is the most arid country in sub-Saharan Africa and one of the driest on earth.…

THE ASIAN oleochemicals industry is introducing an increasingly diverse range of product innovations, and looking at different ways to utilise feedstock, as it looks to combat key industry challenges such as high stocks, low utilisation rates, market volatility and environmental issues.…

SIGNIFICANT new market opportunities are set to emerge for the oleochemicals industry over the coming years, as potential new segments emerge and traditional uses diversify, while growth in emerging markets, particularly China, continues.

Delegates at the ICIS Asian Oleochemicals Conference, which took place in Kuala Lumpur on January 30-31, attracting around 90 delegates, were told that bio-based chemicals’ performance was getting better and better.…

LITHUANIA’S plans to build the Visaginas nuclear power plant, hailed the first modern nuclear alternative to Russian energy in the Baltic States, have been stalled since Lithuanian voters opposed the idea in an October 2012 referendum.

However, a general election held the same day as the referendum and the resulting newly elected Social Democrat-led government has formed a commission within the energy ministry to recalculate the project’s cost estimates, reporting in March.…

THE NEXT 12 months will be crucial in the positioning of Greenland as a major source of rare earth metals (REM). A general election on March 12, could give a pro-independence, pro-mining party a renewed mandate in the Danish island’s autonomous government.…

The Talvivaara Mining Company (TMC) has secured a permit to discharge 1.8 million cubic metres of neutralised waste water from the Talvivaara mine, which should be sufficient for it to recommence nickel ore mining operations. The permit, which was issued by the municipality of Kainuu on February 12, will not however allow TMC to release the neutralised waste water in to the nearby Vuoksi and Oulujoki waterways.…

The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) has welcomed new European Union (EU) guidelines on how EU countries can best subsidize the production and sale of low-CO2 vehicles cars, buses, vans, and trucks.

Ivan Hodac, ACEA’s secretary general, was speaking to wardsauto after the EU executive, the European Commission, yesterday (Thursday) released new controls on how this public money should be spent.…

EUROPEAN and American car manufacturers and parts makers have welcomed the launch of negotiations to forge a comprehensive free trade agreement between the US and the European Union (EU). Responding to an announcement on Tuesday – underlined by President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address on Tuesday – Ivan Hodac, secretary general of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), believes that “an eventual EU-US trade deal will promote production in both economies.…

THE INSTITUTIONS of the European Union (EU) are coming under pressure to control airborne ultrafine particles at airports over concerns about the health risks they cause. The EU’s air quality directive (2008/50/EC) is currently being reviewed, and while existing new drafts do not extend the legislation to ultrafine particles (at airports or anywhere else), the European Commission is being asked to include these controls via a public consultation open until March 4.…