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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BANGLADESH textile industry and its chemical suppliers will improve its environmental standards helped by a wing of the World Bank and five major clothing brands. The bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), working with H&M, Kappahl, Lindex, Levis and Mothercare, will use regional and international consultants to transfer knowledge to Bangladeshi consulting firms and auditors to work with textile companies to assess existing environmental practices, then improve waste-management and energy efficiency.…

BY OSAMA DIAB

THE EGYPTIAN Refining Company (ERC) signed a deal in August to build a US dollar USD3.7 billion second-stage greenfield refinery adjacent to the existing Mostorod refinery 40 kilometres northeast of Cairo. The purpose of the new hydro-cracking and coking refinery is to take its needs of fuel oil from the nearby Mostorod refinery owned by the Cairo Oil Refinery Company, the biggest oil refining company in Egypt contributing 20% to Egypt’s oil refining capacity, and transform it into lighter fuel such as ultra-low sulphur diesel.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) is considering providing a Euro EUR29.8 million loan to Ukrplastic, a leading producer of flexible plastic packaging in Ukraine. The money would finance its energy efficiency investments, help it launch new products, and restructure its balance sheet.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GREEN energy projects will be a priority for infrastructure spending from a Euro EUR68.7 billion European Union (EU) fund managed from 2014 to 2020, say detailed proposals released by the European Commission. These focus on the next phase of the European Union’s (EU) ‘Cohesion Fund’, which helps countries with 90% or less of the EU average income – the 12 eastern and southern European countries becoming member states since 2004, plus Spain, Portugal and Greece.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

Just days after the Canadian government added Bisphenol A (BPA) to its national list of toxic substances, it has now proposed new risk management regulations that would control the chemical’s use in industrial processes and products, such as plastic drink packaging.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

A COOPERATIVE of 450 current and former workers at the Jeffrey Mine, Québec, Canada, voted Monday to approve an offer made by an international consortium of financiers and construction material manufacturers to invest in expanding its underground asbestos mining operations.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS and KARRYN MILLER

WHILE plant-based materials have long been the go-to ingredients for biofuel production, the industry is finding that taking crops away from the agricultural industry can cause unintended environmentally problems, including the indirect generation of carbon emissions.…

BY WANG FANGQING and MINI PANT ZACHARIAH

A GROWING construction industry paired with a push towards more environmentally friendly paints is currently driving the emulsion polymers (EP) market in the Asia Pacific region, with paints and coatings manufacturers in China and India especially, slated to see major growth in years to come.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

EXPORT development and digital trends dominated discussion at the 30th annual staging of Liber, Spain’s leading book fair, in Barcelona last week.

With Spain still gripped by recession, short-term hopes rest on exports and e-books. Government figures released at Liber showed book exports of all kinds rose 5.4% to EUR482 million (GBP402 million) in 2011.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

EUROPEAN booksellers and publishers have welcomed the decision by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to approve legislation improving access to orphan works, whose copyright holders cannot be found. By encouraging their digitisation, the move will potentially open up vast swathes of books to libraries, museums and similar non-commercial organisations across Europe.…