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DETAILED work is under way to create a plan to further diversify the European Union’s (EU) energy supplies routes, after EU heads of government agreed to “address the issue of external energy dependency.” The urgency follows concern sparked by Russia’s annexation of the Crimea from Ukraine.…

Energy ministers of smaller European Union (EU) countries said yesterday (Tuesday March 4) that they will not sacrifice the competitiveness of energy intensive industries such as steel-making when meeting proposed EU 2030 carbon emission targets.

 “Slovakia supports the aim of a single target for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction,” said Dušan Petrík, state secretary in the country’s ministry of economy.…

“WHAT I’m doing now really is a dream job for me.” CFO Juraj Drahovský, 36, from Košice, in eastern Slovakia, is relishing the challenge of helping the RWE Group, one of Europe’s largest energy companies, become a leading player in the Croatian market.…

The Swedish government is to discuss “practical” initiatives to support Sweden’s high cost pig farming sector which is struggling to compete with cheaper imported pigmeat products. The promise of “strategic support” followed meetings between the rural affairs minister Eskil Erlandsson and agri-organisations the Swedish animal farmers association (Sveriges Djurbönder) and the Federation of Swedish Farmers (FSA/Förbundet Sveriges Arbetsterapeuter) in Stockholm on Tuesday (February 25).…

TURKEY’S paints and coatings industry has set itself the target of becoming the third largest paints and coatings sector in Europe by 2023 as it seeks to become a key regional hub within the international industry as a whole.

According to data from Turkey’s Association of Paint Industry (Boya Sanayicileri Dernegi – BOSAD), the size of the Turkish paints and coatings market reached 840,000 tonnes in 2012, with a value of USD2 billion.…

PLANS to exploit Malawi’s oil and gas potential are continuing apace despite a border dispute with neighbouring Tanzania that affects some of the exploration sites.

Geological investigations have indicated that conditions are favourable for oil and gas to exist beneath Lake Malawi and the Lower Shire Valley in southern Malawi, both part of the East African Rift System.…

A FIRST set of technical standards saying how European manufacturers should build technologies that enable vehicles to communicate with each other and with roadside communications infrastructure has been released. The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) have issued an initial set of standards for cooperative intelligence transport systems (C-ITS) – called Release 1 – following a request from the European Commission in 2009.…

PAKISTAN’S textile industry is going to secure over USD1 billion worth of orders from the recently concluded Heimtextil exhibition in Germany, the Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) has predicted.

A spokesman told WTiN.com that the figure represents a “40 per cent jump in the number of orders” compared with the last year, and said the boom in orders is “fully attributed” to the country’s eligibility to the European Union’s (EU) GSP+ trade scheme.…

The Turkish textile and clothing industry is looking to boost the number and quality of trained professionals entering the sector as it seeks to establish Turkey as a key centre for the production of high-quality, design-led textile and apparel.

Mustafa Balkuv, chairman of the Turkish Knitwear Industrialists Association (TRISAD), told WTiN.com…

With the need for checking the safety of supply chains being a growing concern, software providers are updating their products to help apparel and textile companies monitor their manufacturing and distribution partners. The technology helps brands organise their supplies, as they become increasingly involved in ensuring outsourcer factories are safe and compliant with national and international standards.…