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PAINTS and coatings companies have not responded comprehensively to requests from the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) that they register certain coatings ingredients in the now completed second registration process under European Union (EU) chemical control system REACH. ECHA says that by the May 31 deadline for registering chemicals made, used or imported in quantities of 100 tonnes or more, there were 984 substances left unregistered that companies had earlier promised to register.…

ALTHOUGH China is known for skilled workers making clothing for big brand names, the country still relies heavily on imports when it comes to high performance nonwovens used in the medical, automotive, environmental protection and other fields, according to Beijing-based China Nonwovens & Industrial Textiles Association (CNITA).…

With 53,000 North Korean workers failing to show up for work at the inter-Korean Kaesong industrial complex since Tuesday, the area’s key clothing and textile manufacturing plants have ground to a halt. The industrial park in North Korea’s border city of Kaesong houses 123 South Korean companies that employ North Koreans as manufacturing sector laborers.…

IT is said that should the ravens that live in the Tower of London fly away, then the British monarchy will fall. What does this say, then about Canada’s own political talisman – the stray cats of Parliament Hill? For these indomitable semi-feral mousers, for decades parliament’s unpaid rat catchers – were given their marching orders this winter.…

THE NEW South Korea government of Park Geun-hye, 61, the country’s first woman president, looks unlikely to waver from its predecessor’s staunch support of the ambitious South Korean nuclear energy programme.

Ms Park has not explained in detail how she will run her country’s atomic energy industry.…

COLOMBIA industry associations and politicians have warned the country’s automotive industry is at risk following the signing of a free trade agreement with South Korea in February.

The free trade agreement, which is expected to come into force at the end of this year, will eventually allow South Korea-made vehicles to enter the South American country free of the current 35% tariff.…

WHILE it is always sensible to handle reports emerging from North Korea with care, it appears undeniable that the country does manufacture cosmetics and other personal care products and could, if current hopes of liberalisation are ultimately realised, become a new market for international players.…

WITH the global hunt for new rare earth reserves intensifying, claims from North Korea that its prospectors have identified 20 million tonnes of rare earth metal reserves have raised more interest than most statements from this isolated communist state.

Such statistics are usually taken with a pinch of salt, but around the same time South Korea’s Bank of Korea released data suggestion its northern neighbour had mineral deposits – including rare earths – worth around USD6 trillion.…

BY JENS KASTNER, IN TAIPEI

Facing a fragile global economy, rival South Korea’s aggressive free trade agreement (FTA) strategy, as well as an appreciating local currency, Taiwan’s textile and apparel manufacturers have placed their bets on innovation. And indeed, their strong focus on upgraded and functional textiles appears to be paying off.…

BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS

THE EUROPEAN automotive industry has welcomed a ground-breaking initiative announced today by the European Union’s (EU) executive that future planned EU free trade agreements would be assessed for their potential damage to Europe’s auto sector, before negotiations begin in earnest.…