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THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is taking a hard look at hydrogen as a low carbon option to help make Europe a first climate-neutral continent by 2050, a key policy goal that is at the heart of policy-making within the new European Commission of its president Ursula von der Leyen – however he need to make H-vehicles and renewables-based H-fuel cheaper is a major challenge.  …

THE MANY properties that have contributed to graphene being described as a ‘super material’ make it an increasingly attractive choice as an ingredient in a wide range of coatings with special functionalities say researchers and manufacturers. And, with Many of these properties offering environment-friendly and sustainable benefits, graphene is being considered as a key part of the coatings industries efforts to reduce carbon emissions and hence climate change.…

WORRIES about the future of manufacturing in Europe are certainly not being applied to the continent’s nonwovens industry, which has been growing steadily in recent years. Indeed, last year, the overall production of nonwovens in Europe in 2018 grew by around 1.3% year-on-year to reach 2.76 million tonnes, (the most recent Europe wide figures released by industry association EDANA).…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a blueprint for negotiations on agreeing a permanent relationship between the European Union (EU) and the UK, which would forge chemical and environmental control relations as close as possible.

With final status talks about to begin in earnest and a UK position paper awaited, the EU executive European Commission has said that the UK should maintain the level of chemical pollution controls it has followed as an EU member state.…

PAINT and coatings retailers selling their products via the Internet into the European Union (EU) will be subjected to inspections from the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in 2020, amidst concern that online chemical sellers maybe breaching EU safety controls. The EU agency has launched its latest forum enforcement project which will probe online sales direct from paint and coatings companies and broader e-marketplaces, such as Amazon.…

FOR rural landowners in England and Wales, the UK quitting the European Union (EU) on January 31 maybe the most important market driver in 2020. Uncertainty over Brexit has held up investment, sales and purchases, constitutional change is coming, landowners can plan with more clarity.…

Kenya will start to grow genetically modified cotton this year, becoming the first country to do so in Eastern Africa. The move is significant as it is likely to inspire other counties in the region start to grow Bt cotton hybrids that are resistant to African bollworm and other pests.…

AS the afternoon heat ebbs in the middle of this Indian summer, a police team block a major highway outside the city of Nashik, in the western state of Maharashtra, rolling in wheeled yellow-coloured barricades. Soon a traffic jam builds up and policemen move from one car to another in search for cash, often hidden in door cavities or spare wheels.With…

WITH demand for plastic recycling soaring like never before, European plastics companies have told Sustainable Plastics how they use innovation and expertise to maximise are environmental efficiency and output yields. “You’d be amazed what dirt we find in pure product waste,” Jack Snijders, director of Germany’s CIFRA Recycling GmbH, told reporters during a plant visit.…

Europe’s first large-scale green hydrogen plant moved closer to reality in January (2020) when a proposed electrolysis project in the Netherlands won EUR11 million funding from the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH-JU), a European Commission/industry partnership supporting hydrogen technology innovation.…