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BY MARK ROWE

SELLING a second-hand car to a customer has always required reassurance that the vehicle remains in fine shape. Selling a new car is always easier if a dealer can ensure long-life and durability. In future, such assurances will be eased by the introduction of longer-lasting, robust components based on nanomaterials.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, MJ DESCHAMPS

EUROPEAN car makers will push for additional changes to the controversial European Union (EU)-South Korea free trade agreement when it is placed before the European Parliament for ratification. The spokesperson for the European automobile manufacturers association ACEA Sigrid de Vries told wardsauto it wanted the deal’s text revised to help Europe’s auto sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament is pushing pharmaceutical companies towards releasing more medicine information, while insisting such bulletins cannot be promotional. Approving and amending a European Union (EU) regulation and directive, the parliament’s public health committee voted that pharmaceutical companies be required, (the original proposal made this optional), to make available such information electronically and in hard copy.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

THE FIRST deadline to register chemicals under the European Union’s (EU) REACH chemical control system arrives on November 30. The cosmetics and other personal care product industries are waiting to see whether their suppliers will log the paperwork on time – something it has struggled to find out in advance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BANGLADESH textile industry will be helped to improve its environmental standards through a wing of the World Bank. Its International Finance Corporation (IFC) 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 Alan Osborn

The European Commission has brought Internet researchers in central Asia into the international research community through aid of a ?$5 million (US$6.74 million) grant to the central Asia research and education network (CAREN) (SPELLING CORRECT). Brussels says the funding will upgrade the ancient ‘silk road’ carrying goods from Europe via central Asia to China into "a 21st century high-speed internet highway for research and education."…

BY LAWRENCE J SPEER

FRENCH carmaker Renault and recycling giant SITA France are increasing joint efforts to boost the recycling of materials from the country’s end-of-life vehicle (ELV) sector. The two companies aim to radically improve teardown, recycling and used-part recovery at 350 state-certified dismantlers nationwide.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

THE TEXTILE and clothing industry maybe almost unrecognisable from its organisation today in 10 years’ time: Chinese-owned offshore production; unstoppable e-commerce, demand for eco-textiles, shifting luxury markets to Asia’s new middle class, and higher prices for everyone, are just some predictions.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

THE FIRST deadline to register chemicals under the European Union’s (EU) REACH chemical control system arrives on November 30. Both plastics manufacturers and their customers are waiting to see whether their ingredient suppliers will log the paperwork on time.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

THE FIRST deadline to register chemicals under the European Union’s (EU) REACH chemical control system arrives on November 30. The cosmetics and other personal care product industries are waiting to see whether their suppliers will log the paperwork on time – something it has struggled to find out in advance.…