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THE EUROPEAN Commission’s bumper energy package presented on November 30 – boasting a 30% binding energy efficiency target and measures to promote renewable energy, deregulate electricity prices and achieve a more co-ordinated grid system – has been largely welcomed by utilities.…

For years, sustainability has been a buzz word across the fashion and textile industries. But exactly how to integrate good environmental and labour practices into businesses to create profits and boost efficiency, rather than leave ‘sustainability’ as a slogan on a company homepage?…

VIETNAM’S construction and manufacturing sectors are driving demand for paints and varnishes as economic growth remains healthy despite speed bumps this year. While this key south-east Asian emerging market’s economic growth took a hit this year thanks to environmental issues and weak global export demand, the country’s paints and coatings industry continues to grow.…

A new European Union Observatory for Nanomaterials (EU-ON) database is set to go live in summer 2017. Its establishment will relieve the cosmetics industry which had feared earlier proposals to create a mandatory nanomaterials register, regarding it as a potential bureaucratic nightmare.…

OPPORTUNITIES may abound for suppliers in Japan’s newly liberalised household electricity market, but for the time being, a handful of regional utility giants still retain the lion’s share of sales.

Analysts had predicted the Japanese government’s granting of consumer choice over the source of their energy purchases would stimulate growth in innovative and renewable energy, and undermine sales in power generated from fossil fuels and nuclear.…

ONE of the wealthiest countries in the world, Qatar’s gross domestic product (GDP) per capita was estimated at USD73,653 in 2015, according to the World Bank. Close to 85% of the country’s 2.5 million population are expatriates and this has influenced the skincare products on offer, while high levels of disposable income continue to drive consumption.…

VIETNAM’S construction and manufacturing sectors are driving demand for paints and varnishes as economic growth remains healthy despite speed bumps this year. While this key south-east Asian emerging market’s economic growth took a hit this year thanks to environmental issues and weak global export demand, the country’s paints and coatings industry continues to grow.…

Russia’s economic woes are well-documented, yet, rather than mirroring the financial downturn, its personal care market and industry has remained comparatively healthy. Beneath these encouraging figures, however, strong currents appear to be instigating long-term changes to the sector, notably an increasing preference for cheaper products by hard-pressed consumers.…

VIETNAM’S construction and manufacturing sectors are driving demand for paints and varnishes as economic growth remains healthy despite speed bumps this year. While this key south-east Asian emerging market’s economic growth took a hit this year thanks to environmental issues and weak global export demand, the country’s paints and coatings industry continues to grow.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and its member states have been keen adopters of rules restricting how tobacco companies make, market and sell their wares, but to what extent have the EU’s neighbours to the east and southeast followed suit?

The answer is – largely – yes: controls have increased – but the extent to which this has happened and the details of restrictions vary widely from country to country.…