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Australia is set to establish one of the world’s largest renewable energy production centres, capitalising on the vast solar and wind resources of the remote Pilbara region of the state of Western Australia. The private initiative, currently led by BP, represents a significant step in the nation’s push toward renewable energy and its current goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, encouraged by the country’s centre-left Labor government.…

Major emerging markets such as Vietnam are regarded by the west as sourcing hubs for products and packaging, but this south-east Asian country of 100 million people is now a major metal packaging market. According to recent forecasting from India-based market researcher Mordor Intelligence, the Vietnamese metal packaging market is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.07% from 2024 through 2029, growing from USD2.11 billion to USD2.45 billion (1).…

The Ghanaian government has welcomed an “unprecedented increase” in cocoa prices in the 2023/24 season of 129.36% year-on-year as the market responded to production declines worldwide – costing chocolate manufacturers dear. Ghana’s food and agriculture minister Bryan Acheampong said Ghanaian cocoa prices had risen from Ghanaian Cedi GHS20,928/tonne (USD1,325) and GHS1,308 (USD82.80) per 64kg bag in September 2023 to GHS48,000/tonne (USD3,030) or GH3,000 (USD190) per 64kg bag as the season wrapped last month (September 2024).…

The international can manufacturing and filling industry is continuing to face increasing regulatory pressure regarding certain food contact chemicals, which while protecting cans against corrosion, may also harm consumer health and the environment.

Dubbed by environmental groups as ‘forever chemicals’ because they take so long to degrade, these substances include bisphenols, phthalates and PFAS (per and poly-fluorinated alkyl substances).…

Amid growing calls for higher performance adhesives to drive forward the renewable energy sector, their ability to extend the life of equipment and aid in their dismantling are proving just as valuable.

Indeed, a key research focus is on such adhesives’ debonding qualities.…

There are undoubtedly vast amounts of data available through cryptocurrency blockchains for AML/CFT/CFP compliance, supervision and law enforcement, making increasingly available and sophisticated assessment tools more valuable.

Yong Li, Anti‑Money Laundering Advisor, for Canada-based consultancy The AMLShop, told MLB of the available crypto-ledger data: “Up to the end of last month, for Bitcoin it’s 596 gigabytes [GB] and for the Ethereum it is about 1,100 GB.…

Women today lead half of the Netherlands’ 14 senior research universities, the first time this has happened, a new report issued as the country starts its new academic year has claimed.

A Dutch News report (1) stressed how last year Nijmegen’s Radboud University appointed José Sanders, professor of communication, as its first rector magnificus, equivalent to chancellor https://www.ru.nl/en/about-us/news/jose-sanders-appointed-new-rector-of-radboud-university-nijmegen…

THE EUROPEAN and international dyeing sector will effectively lose the ability to use inks manufactured using solvents made with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) under new European Union (EU) measures to ban fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases). These are considered 100 to 24,000 times more harmful to the climate than carbon dioxide, and hence controls are tightening.…

Vietnam’s clothing and textile industry may benefit from the accession to power of a former security minister, industry experts have told Just Style – although his closeness to Russia has raised concerns about weakening vital western trade links. To Lam was appointed President of Vietnam in April (2024) and general secretary of the ruling communist party earlier this month (August 3), the most powerful job in this south-east Asia sourcing hub.…

The Canadian automobile industry has welcomed the planned imposition of Canada’s planned 100% tariffs on Chinese BEV imports, saying it will give the sector breathing space to set up a comprehensive BEV supply chain. This follows the Canadian and Ontario governments sinking Canadian dollars CAD52.5 billion (USD39 billion) into creating a mining-to-assembly BEV industry in Canada.…