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BY MARK GODFREY

THOUGH it remains the world’s key manufacturing powerhouse, gobbling up raw materials, China’s demand for imported metals scrap is currently slack. There are several reasons for the conundrum say local and international scrap players, among them exchange rate volatility and weak Chinese prices for scrap.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

AMAZON’s arrival in Spain has lit a slow flame under the soles of Spanish booksellers, but the e-tailer faces obstacles to growth that do no afflict it in the UK and America. Amazon.es launched September 15 and will be hot gossip at the LIBER Madrid International Book Fair, the main platform for publishers of works in Spanish, which begins October 5.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) personal care product companies may face a revised system of assessing the toxicity of chemicals they produce or handle, with EU specialists proposing checking the interactions of chemicals in mixtures. They fear simply adding the potential toxicity of two separate ingredients might overlook chemical reactions creating unexpected dangers.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

NATIONALISM and the energy industry have made uneasy bedfellows throughout history, yet Scotland is attracting substantial international investment in renewables despite having, since May and for the first time, a majority government committed to winning independence from the UK.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

EUROPEAN manufacturers are increasingly turning to developing countries for the precious metals and minerals needed to make mobile phones, computers, electric cars and more. However, a European Parliament vote backing a raw materials strategy that highlights the potentials of ‘urban mining’ might help create a more self-sufficient European mining industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DOUBTS are growing about the wisdom of encouraging biofuel use in the European Union (EU) as a cornerstone of environmental policy aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The EU has painted itself into a corner with its renewable energy directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FRENCH cosmetics giant L’Oréal is offering scholarships subsidising up to 50% of fees for full time MBA courses at the well-regarded Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School, Belgium. However, unlike many such corporate grants, students do not owe work or studies for L’Oréal after graduation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has released another long term raw materials strategy, trying to boost the recycling and reuse of more valuable minerals that would otherwise be landfilled. This latest strategy has been developed by the Commission’s environment directorate general and has been christened a ‘Resource Efficiency Roadmap’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IT seems such an obvious idea – it is surprising that it has not been undertaken before: bringing the air industry’s great and good together to thrash out how improvements to air navigation should be made in a comprehensive but flexible plan.…

BY MARK ROWE and MJ DESCHAMPS

IN Russia, politics is everything, and politics invariably means what the state’s two figureheads – Dmitri Medvedev, the president, and Vladimir Putin, former president and prime minister – determine.

So when noises are heard coming from the Kremlin signalling a change in attitude towards green energy, the wise betting is that there is political weight behind such moves.…