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BEAUTY product labelling and decoration might not be the most obvious way for a brand to boost sustainability, but such is the pressure to green-up, such considerations are being woven into product appearance.

Edinburgh, Scotland-based UWI Technology Ltd is a case in point.…

INDIA’S paint industry has been exempted from a mandatory biocide registration requirement under the national Insecticides Act (1968) if the biocides are used as a dry film preservative. However, new guidelines issued by Central Insecticide Board and Registration Committee (CIBRC) in June have told the Indian paint industry that they must use registered biocide products at recommended dosages, or protective labelling rules will kick in.…

ENVIRONMENTAL enforcement and product safety improvements were top priorities for China National Coatings Industrial Association, president Sun Lian Ying, when addressing her organisation’s annual summit, held in March (2018) in Jiangsu province. The meeting launched a ‘Green Development – Six Actions of China’s Coatings Industry Plan’ for the industry, which included pledges to pledges to reduce pollution in production plants while increasing the industry’s range of environmentally-friendly, highly innovative products.…

An amendment to a UK Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill requires the British government to impose such registers on its OTs by this deadline, if the local administrations have not created their own. The UK currently has the world’s only public beneficial ownership register – but it only covers England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – see http://ownershiptransparency.com/…

THE TURKISH denim fabric manufacturer Orta Anadolu has told WTiN.com that it is experiencing growing demand for its eco denim initiatives, resulting in an increased use of sustainable cotton.

Speaking to WTiN.com, Murat Sozeri, regional sales manager (Asia) at Orta Anadolu, said that the company has been increasing its use of ‘Better Cotton’, supplied by the Switzerland-based Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), which he said now accounts for 5% of the company’s total cotton consumption.…

THE ASIA-PACIFIC (APAC) region’s oil and gas sector faces an unprecedented level of decommissioning for which it is under-prepared and lacks experience, analysts have warned. Unclear regional government regulations coupled with a lack of local expertise mean that companies and regulators face a steep learning curve, high initial costs and the potential for mistakes, according to the consultancy group Wood Mackenzie’s latest analysis.…

THE COUNCIL of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has approved key rules of the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), the global system for reducing aviation sector CO2 emissions. Member states agreed how CORSIA’s global market-based measures (GMBM) would work, with airlines reducing buying emission permits from trading systems or funding carbon offset projects that reduce CO2 emissions elsewhere.…

THE ASIA-Pacific region has many of the elements needed to create a burgeoning nonwovens market and industry. It has growing middle class consumption of basis personal products and continued manufacturing and infrastructural expansion for industrial nonwovens. These items can be supplied my new mass-production in emerging market countries and niche lines from the region’s richer developed industrial economies.…

THE EUROPEAN Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and European chemical industry association CEFIC have signed a cooperation agreement to aid the implementation of REACH regulations within the European Union (EU). The deal follows the export of the last REACH registration deadline – on May 31 (2018), when chemical substances produced or imported in the EU in quantities of between 1 and 100 tonnes annually had to be registered with ECHA.…

THE FRENCH paint and varnishes industry saw sales decline for the third consecutive year in 2016, contracting by 1.6% year-on-year to EUR2.9 billion, according to market research company Euromonitor International. It believes, however, that business should pick up in the coming years due to rising construction of homes.…