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WASTE-TO-ENERGY GASIFICATION: A GAME CHANGER?



WASTE -to-energy gasification is a game changer, experts say, because it offers renewable and low carbon heat and power, security of supply and short delivery times when energy prices are high.

Advanced thermal gasification, as opposed to combustion – burning waste in an incinerator to produce energy, is “clean, safe, very efficient, and being of a moderate scale is acceptable to local communities, because nobody wants a huge incinerator in their back yard,” stressed George Willacy, the chairman of Refgas UK, a Flintshire-based specialist in gasification fuelled by waste and biomass.…

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PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT SECTOR SEEKS GREENER PACKAGING, BUT THE WAY FORWARD IS COMPLEX



may be a big concept, but the road to making personal care product packaging greener is made of small incremental steps that can both provide green marketing benefits and reduce costs.

Recent innovations include reducing the size of containers, while maintaining the volume of product they hold, alongside innovations in using renewable resources and keeping packaging waste out of landfills.…

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SUSTAINABILITY may be a big concept, but the road to making personal care product packaging greener is made of small incremental steps that can both provide green marketing benefits and reduce costs.

Recent innovations include reducing the size of containers, while maintaining the volume of product they hold, alongside innovations in using renewable resources and keeping packaging waste out of landfills.…

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PRIVATE EQUITY PURCHASE OF RECYCLER BEFESA PROGRESSES



The agreed acquisition of Spain headquartered steel waste recycler Befesa Medio Ambiente has moved on with formal notification to the European Commission for consideration by European Union competition watchdogs.

Befesa’s Spanish parent Abengoa announced in April that it had struck an exclusive agreement to sell 100% of its subsidiary to an acquisition vehicle of a fund managed by private equity firm Triton Partners in a deal valued by Abengoa at EUR1.075 billion and which was approved earlier this month by Abengoa bondholders.…

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EU STEEL ACTION PLAN WILL ASK GOVERNMENTS TO STOP INCREASING TAXES ON STEEL INDUSTRY



European Union (EU) governments will be asked to stop levying more taxes on their steel manufacturers in an EU steel action plan to be presented on June 11, Steel First can reveal. Romania’s economy minister Varujan Vosganian, an EU minister closely involved in drafting the policy has outlined a series of details to be written into the text.…

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EU RESEARCH PROJECT FINDS NEW PHARMA INGREDIENTS FROM MOROCCAN NATURE



A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project has been researching the pharmaceutical applications of active ingredients extracted from herbs and aromatic plants found in Morocco. The Euro EUR442,000 MAP2ERA project has been coordinated by Morocco’s Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, working with the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN) in France, Spain’s University of Alicante and Giraf PM, a German project management company.…

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FRANCE’S ASTELLIA OFFERS FLEXIBILITY AROUND CORE TELCO INFORMATION SERVICE



IN today’s complex and dynamic mobile communications environment, it is important that technology providers assisting operators are flexible – offering not just tailor-made solutions for telcos, but the ability to respond to technical change.

France’s Astellia has made a priority of creating an à la carte menu of services, but one that nonetheless – like all good restaurants – has a clearly defined theme.…

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DEEPENING TRADE RELATIONS BETWEEN EU AND MOROCCO TO IMPROVE CUSTOMS PROCEDURES, INVESTMENTS FOR TEXTILE INDUSTRY



A PLANNED deepening of trade relations between the European Union (EU) and Morocco should streamline customs procedures for the EU clothing and textile industry, whether importing or exporting products from this key north African trading partner, the European Apparel and Textile Confederation (Euratex) has told just-style.com.…

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LOCAL KNITWEAR COMPANIES SEEKING NEW GROWTH IN SOUTH AFRICA



Knitwear companies on Mauritius have been inspired by the economic malaise harming their key European export markets to diversify their sales strategy by seeking to tap the key regional market of South Africa. It is now the Indian Ocean island country’s second largest knitwear export market after the European Union (EU).…

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EUROPE: EUA REPORT REVEALS HOW UNIS TODAY TAP PUBLIC FUNDS



 An interim report from the European Universities Association (EUA) on the pattern of public funding for universities has highlighted how the character of funding for HE institutions in Europe is changing, largely though not entirely, as a result of the economic pressures facing governments.…

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