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Canada’s successful shift towards electric vehicle production is seeing the country’s auto-sector expand from its traditional Ontario base across the country, according to new research. This has been undertaken by non-profits the Trillium Network for Advanced Manufacturing, (which raises public and investor awareness), and Accelerate, an alliance of mining, batteries, fuel cells, R&D, the public sector, Indigenous peoples’ interests, labour, vehicle manufacturing and infrastructure groups.…

With New Zealand’s raw wool exports falling during the Covid-19 pandemic, the country’s wool sector is witnessing “a historic change”, transforming from farmers as providers of raw material traded as a commodity into that of farmer-owned brands – sold direct to consumer as high-value goods.…

The Ukraine and Russian paint and coating sectors have both experienced major change since Russian military forces invaded Ukraine last February (2022), but as with the war, Ukraine’s industry has suffered much tougher damage.

Indeed, all sectors of the victim country’s economy have been hit hard by Russian military attacks and economic disruption, but none more so than Ukraine’s vulnerable chemical-based industries.…

The metal packaging sector does not only prosper because of its intrinsic self-worth but also because of changes in competing industries such as paper and plastic packaging – and regulation – such as recent single-use plastics bans – can boost the fortunes of can makers and fillers.…

Packaging firms and brands are preparing for a boom in biomaterial packaging, fuelled by greater consumer demand, regulations to increase sustainability and the maturity of biomaterials. A report by Massachusetts, US-based management consulting firm Arthur D Little (1), released in 2022, said that investment has fuelled production improvements and capacity, easing the mass production of biomaterials derived from plants, animals or bacteria.…

St Kitts & Nevis, the western hemisphere’s smallest sovereign state (by population), has significant work ahead to meet international AML/CFT standards, despite significant reforms being passed in 2020 and 2021. The twin-island state, with just over 47,000 people, is, noted a Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) mutual evaluation report issued January 2022, a “small international financial centre which consists of commercial banking, international banking, domestic insurance, international insurance, securities, money service businesses and credit unions”.…

Antigua & Barbuda has been making steady progress building its AML/CFT system, although mutual evaluation reports and third-party assessments suggest the twin island nation needs to continue forging fresh protections. It has, however, not released conviction and prosecution data since 2016 – making its AML/CFT effectiveness tough to assess.…

The potential benefits and risks posed to AML systems by quantum computing are becoming clearer, as more powerful and efficient quantum computing systems are developed.

Quantum systems draw processing strength from exploiting how quantum states involve superposition (a particle inhabits two or more places at the same time) and entanglement (two or more particles influence each other), to make quicker and larger calculations.…

International clothing brands have been hoping to see major outsourcing centres develop their own sustainable apparel markets, but this year’s choppy global economy has impeded sales to these potentially lucrative consumer bases.

Brazil, the world’s 10th largest economy, with 216 million people, was back in 2011 considered by US-based consultants A.T.…

Since economic liberalisation and globalisation kicked in major economic growth in China since 1990, China’s food and beverage industry has expanded exponentially, boosting the country’s metal packaging industry (1).
London-based market researcher GlobalData (NOTE TO EDITOR – NO SPACE BETWEEN WORDS IN THIS COMPANY NAME) has forecast that China’s market will purchase more than 1 trillion units in 2024, with rigid metal packaging taking a 10.5% volume share of this vast financial cake (2).…