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BY KEITH NUTHALL

LITTLE more excites the international auto industry more than the search for an alternative to fossil fuels, and an American company is now looking seriously into the idea of using a heavy element thorium to generate locomotive power.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

TURKEY’S USD2 billion paint market may be forecast by manufacturers to grow between 12% and 13% this year on the back of a resurgent construction sector; however, paint exports are currently struggling. This is because of a combination of lacklustre market demand in Europe along with the troubles companies are facing in terms of implementing European Union (EU) regulations required as Turkey meshes with the EU’s REACH chemical control system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

The European Union (EU) robustly protects traditional drink product names, so a Finnish brandy maker took risks when using the name Cognac on its bottles. These were made clear today (July 14), when the European Court of Justice (ECJ) annulled Gust.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

In 20 years’ time, consumers might be looking back on today’s beverage market and laughing at the fact that people were once buying drinks just because they were thirsty.

"We’re going to start seeing a whole lot of new, nutritional ingredients popping up in our drinks soon – functionality will be the biggest theme in 20 years," said Tom Pirko, president of California-based international food and beverage advisory firm Bevmark LLC.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN APPEAL by a major French chemical group against Euro EUR78.66 million fines for price fixing in the European hydrogen peroxide and sodium perborate bleaching agent market has been rejected by European Court of Justice. It ruled Arkema France and parent companies Total and Elf Aquitaine should together pay these European Commission fines, imposed for participating in a cartel.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE EGYPTIAN economy is struggling along in the wake of the revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak earlier this year as protests continue and workers demand more rights and better pay. And while the garment sector appears to have weathered the crisis, expecting to export more than USD2 billion in clothing this year, the spinning sector has been hit hard by the quadrupling in price of locally produced yarn over the past six months, rising from Egyptian Pounds EGP10 (USD 1.68) to EGP42 (USD7.06) per kilogram.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

THE LORO Piana family started out as Italian merchants of wool and cashmere fabrics at the beginning of the 19th century, providing lush textiles for use in high-end garments. Almost 200 years later, the Quarona, northwest Italy-based Loro Piana brand is still family-owned and dedicated to providing the finest of luxury knitwear to customers, and has, despite market pressures, managed to succeed in the luxury sector without having to move production abroad.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WHILE Japanese engineers have built robots over the years that resemble pets, play football, and mimic human facial expressions, when the Fukushima nuclear plant starting emitting radioactivity after the recent tsunami, Japan had to look overseas for robots to help heal the damaged plant.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

ALTHOUGH the manufacturing and design side of fashion is not always as full of glitz and glam as runway shows or haute-couture magazine spreads, the clothing industry is incorporating some pretty spacy IT to make the end product look flawless – and fit correctly.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

WHILE the goal for many clothing manufacturers and brands is to gain an international presence, there is a key risk associated with selling the same designs in different global markets – the more far and wide that clothing designs go, the more shapes and sizes they must come in.…