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All of China’s 2,800 counties should have their own general aviation (GA) airport under the country’s next and 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020), Li Jiaxiang, the head of China’s Civil Aviation Administration (CAA), at an Aviation Industry Corporation of China event staged on March 11.…

East Africa is emerging as an attractive sourcing alternative for apparel and textile producers around the world as costs in Chinese outsourcing centres rise especially. With cheaper labour and resources, the region has already attracted foreign investment, particularly from Asia.

International apparel and textile producers are looking hard at Ethiopia as an attractive production and sourcing destination.…

For more than a decade, smart coatings have been on the cusp of revolutionising much of the way in which paint industry goes about its business. The number of products that have made it from the lab to the open market remains relatively few, but growing.…

Denmark slaughtered around 250,000 less pigs in 2014 compared to 2013, according to new data from the Danish Agriculture and Food Council (DAFC/ Landbrug & Fødevarer) based on figures supplied by the Danish Pig Producers association (DPP/ Danske Svineproducenter).
In total, Danish meat processing companies slaughtered 18.93 million pigs in 2014.…

TIGHTER lending positions being taken by banks in Denmark towards the country’s agri-industry is restricting herd and production-related investments by the country’s organic meat sector. This lack of expansion, despite record demand and consumption, is causing a serious shortage of organic meat on the domestic and export supply side.…

Swedish supermarkets, led by major chain the ICA Group, are threatening to suspend imports of Danish pork following reports by animal rights organisations complaining about the culling of up to 500,000 under-weight newborn piglets, weighing less than one kilo, on Danish farms each year.…

QUALITY suspicious transaction reports (STRs) and suspicious activity reports (SARs) around the world are crucial to identifying and combatting money laundering – but a lack of feedback from law enforcement and financial intelligence units (FIUs) can discourage reporting entities from working to improve their reports.…

THE ITALIAN government has been breaking ground in its attempt to make its biofuels sector more sustainable, but ongoing discussions at the European Union (EU) on how much member states can subsidise biofuels are impeding Italy’s progress.
In 2014, Italy become the first EU member state to set national blending targets for conventional and advanced biofuels.…

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project is developing new water-repelling coatings and application processes for Europe’s expanding wind power sector. The Euro EUR4.2 million HYDROBOND project has created metal and ceramic-based coatings applied by cold gas blasting process, which propels nano-scale powder particles onto a surface at three times the speed of sound, compressing and strengthening the resulting coating.…

A German government proposal to allow limited and conditional shale gas fracking has been welcomed by the energy industry but created unease among environmental groups who fear it may signal a return to fossil fuels. This, they argue, pay violate the spirit of Germany’s green energy policy, the Energiewende.…