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BENELUX PAINT MARKET GOING STRONG DESPITE CHALLENGES, SAY EXPERTS
Although the low countries boom in the paints and coatings markets of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux) during the Covid-19 pandemic is easing, and the industry has been hit by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the cost-of-living crisis, the sector is holding up well.…
EUROPE MARKET AUTOMAKERS GET READY FOR BATTERY PASSPORTS
Automakers selling battery electric vehicles (BEVs) into the 27-country European Union (EU) market are working hard to fulfill EU regulatory requirements to provide digital battery passports using a unique serial number and QR code from February 2027. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/07/10/council-adopts-new-regulation-on-batteries-and-waste-batteries/
The law was only adopted in July 2023, creating a compliance challenge for EU market automakers, many of them US-owned, said Beatriz Ildefonso, circularity and materials manager at the European Association of Automotive Suppliers (CLEPA), the suppliers representative body.…
ESWATINI HIGHER EDUCATION FINANCIAL STRUGGLES PROMPTS PROTESTS
The southern African kingdom of Eswatini’s (formerly Swaziland) higher education sector is facing tough times ahead as two high profile universities are undergoing financing squeezes. The University of Eswatini (UNESWA), the country’s largest public national HE institution and the Southern Africa Nazarene University (SANU) – also public – are struggling with debts.…
EUROPEAN UNION ACCOUNTANTS PREPARE FOR SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING. COULD THEY GAIN A GLOBAL EDGE?
The launch of European Sustainably Reporting Standards (ESRS), guiding mandatory European Union (EU) sustainability reports, coming progressively into mandatory force across the EU from 2025 (1), is pushing EU auditors to expand their skill sets.
They are already having to audit comprehensive EU sustainability reports for major companies, focused on double materiality concerns of a company’s impact on the environment and society as well as its financial exposure to such social and environmental trends.…
BANGLADESHI RMG MANUFACTURERS CALL ON NEW GOVERNMENT TO SECURE FACTORIES PREPARING TO REOPEN
Bangladesh’s clothing and textile manufacturers have called on the country’s incoming interim government to protect their factories, as violence still wracks the country following the downfall of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
She fled the country on Monday (August 5) after resigning amidst cascading political demonstrations against an earlier brutal crackdown on protesters upset about government job quotas.…
UK POLICE TAKE DOWN SPOOFING PLATFORM FLEECING FRAUD VICTIMS WORLDWIDE
The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has shut down a spoofing platform that enabled criminals to target 170,000 UK fraud victims and others worldwide through a phone handset and web app. Targets were defrauded of “tens of millions” of British pounds (GBP), said the NCA via this ‘Russian Coms’ system.…
EUROPEAN BEV SALES SLOW AS CUSTOMERS FAVOR CHEAPER HYBRIDS
BEV sales are stalling in the European Union (EU). After growth in 2021 and 2022, sales figures (https://www.acea.auto/pc-registrations/new-car-registrations-3-in-may-2024-battery-electric-12-5-market-share/) released July 18 by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) for the year through May 2024 show BEVs taking 12.5% of the EU car market, a decrease from 13.8% the previous year.…
HESI ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS GROUP LAUNCHES NEW ADVICE ON MAKING RESEARCH PROMOTE SUSTAINABILTY
A new set of advice for the global academic publishing sector has been released that aims to link academics with civil society, businesses and governments, so that their innovations can be understood to help deliver the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).…
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS MAYBE KEY TO TEXTILE RECYCLING
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) in Europe could help its long-established and highly regarded textile sector to boost its sustainability and ability to recycle materials. With the European Union (EU) generating some 12.6 million tonnes of textile waste per year, (1), the European Commission has been pushing the sector to improve its recycling, just as the EU has passed a groundbreaking regulation, in force from July 12, law designed to encourage AI and its ethical use (2).…
METAL CANS ARE ON THE UPSWING IN GERMANY, BUT REGULATORY CHALLENGES ARE GROWING
Can usage and sales in Europe’s largest economy, Germany, are robust, indicating a positive outlook for metal packagers and fillers. Separate data from the Federal Statistical Office of Germany and Forum Getränkedose (FGD), an association representing can majors such as the Ardagh Group, Ball Beverage Packaging Europe Ltd and Crown Holdings Inc, show that the metal can was the only beer container to see growth in Germany in 2023, at 3.8%, compared to a 4.5% drop in overall beer sales (1). …