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RESTRICTIVE quotas limiting European Union (EU) sugar production to 13.5 million tonnes have finally been scrapped, freeing producers to hit market demand. The abolition of the quotas from October 1 sees European Commission officials predicting that EU sugar production will increase 20% and reach 20.1 million tonnes for the next harvest.…

DUBLIN-based accountancy firm BDO is planning to start a new EUR100 million investment fund to assist fast expanding mid-sized Irish companies in unlocking further growth opportunities. This will be the successor fund to an already existing BDO Development Capital Fund (DCF) worth EUR75 million.…

THE ARAB Spring, for all its faults, inconsistencies and disappointments, has delivered the world one thriving open and pluralistic Arab society – Tunisia – where women especially have seized new freedoms and spending power. This is reflected in spending on spa and salon services in the country, where, according to market researcher Euromonitor International, in the year of the 2011 Jasmine Revolution the turnover of the Tunisian spa sector was just USD32.4 million.…

IT is a constant truth within the personal care product industry that brands prosper when they understand markets that they are targeting. In New Zealand, one key and increasingly important factor is that the country’s 4.7 million people society is ageing.…

IN a cutting-edge area of the textile sector such as digital manufacturing, planning and distribution, it is always helpful to know what the gold standard is for performance. But with technologies still developing and innovation taking hardware and software in directions that are untested – with implications that are as yet unknown – companies may not want to follow the crowd.…

Upgrades and advancements in airport winter management technologies and techniques, especially regarding wet snow, were highlighted at this year’s SWIFT Airfield Operations Conference & Equipment Expo, which was staged at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, for the first time.

The largest city in Atlantic Canada has a reputation for receiving large doses of such snow at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, with high humidity from the Atlantic Ocean combining with the intense cold of eastern Canadian winters.…

With almost 900 million people around the globe lacking access to safe drinking water and predictions that within less than 10 years, half the world’s population will live in ‘water-stressed’ conditions, the need for cost-effective efficient nonwovens-based filtration has never been greater.…

THE IMPOVERISHED south-east Asian kingdom of Cambodia shares porous borders with the significantly more dynamic economies of Thailand and Vietnam, is notorious for corruption, has a large casino sector and generates significant earnings from illegal exports.

This precarious mixture of factors has since 2012 consecutively earned Cambodia a spot in the Basel Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Index (from the Basel Institute on Governance) top-10 risk jurisdictions for money laundering.…

STANDARDS are being drawn up to ensure international best practice is consistently applied in durability testing of coatings for use in space projects.

The European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS) is an initiative established to develop a coherent, single set of user-friendly standards for all European space activities – and its experts are now drafting technical rules for coatings used on satellites, rockets, probes and other space equipment.…

MOST of East Asia’s dynamic economies have traditionally relied on expats and there are no readily discernible signs that this is decreasing.

In Vietnam, which has been benefitting from production lines migrating from China amid rapidly rising labour and land costs there, increasing the number of expats six-fold since 2004 to almost 100,000 in 2016, the shortage of engineers and managers can be seen throughout most sectors.…