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Nonwovens are taking on an increasingly important role in creating more sustainable vehicles, particularly in interiors, offering lightweight materials reducing fuel usage, recyclability, and the use of green feedstocks such as plant and waste food material.

The US-based global Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry (INDA) estimates there was about 560,000 tonnes of nonwovens in global automotive usage in 2013, said Dave Rousse, INDA’s president.…

A EUROPEAN Commission-financed report on money laundering punishments within the European Union (EU) has called on EU governments to consider using more administrative penalties, including property seizures, to punish hiding criminal proceeds.

Noting that money laundering is “visibly under-prosecuted” in the EU, it said using article 3 of the EU’s fourth money laundering directive authorising the use of non-criminal proceedings “should be further explored and developed.”…

The European Commission has approved the acquisition of a 39% stake in German scrap metal processing company Scholz AG by Toyota Tsusho Corporation (TTC), the trading arm of the Japanese industrial conglomerate Toyota.  
A Commission note said that the move would not damage competition within the European Union (EU) scrap market, deeming it “compatible with the internal market” of the EU.…

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THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) launch of a disputes proceeding at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over Russian anti-dumping duties on German and Italian van exports might seem like diplomatic overkill. But experts say there are good geo-political reasons behind the case brought by the EU executive, the European Commission.…

INDIA’S newly launched Knitting Technology Mission (KTM) project is primarily trying to diversify the country’s knitwear exports with a shift away from cotton to manmade fibre based knitted goods. The KTM committee chairman Dr A Sakthivel has hailed the project as a “platform to add value across the supply chain.”…

WHEN it comes to subsidies in the European Union (EU), the representatives of the fossil fuels industries and those of the renewable energy sources have long pointed the finger at each other about who receives more support from the public purse.…

EUROPE’S plastics manufacturers association PlasticsEurope has called on the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to maintain its current total daily intake (TDI) maximum for bisphenol A (BPA), saying it will be justified by upcoming studies. 

The call was made by PlasticsEurope Dieter Beyer, representing its polycarbonate/bisphenol A Group, at an EFSA meeting on the topic, in Brussels.…

DANISH Crown’s decision to locate capacity-based facility investments outside Denmark carries the risk of straining relations with the government in Copenhagen when the company continues to solicit state measures to reduce operating costs at local plants. 

The meat company’s group-wide cost-reduction plan calls for a cost efficiency review and re-organisation of factory capacity in Denmark.…

DANISH companies are gearing up to export sausages, salami and other heat-treated pork products to China after the two countries struck a bilateral agreement on access to Chinese markets. Denmark, Germany, Canada and the US are China’s biggest pork trade partners but currently can export only live pigs, frozen and fresh pork to one of the world’s fastest growing consumer markets for meat and meat products.…