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BY DAVID HAWORTH

THE PAINT and coatings industry is a small but brightly shining star in the Finnish economy’s firmament, and one, which, as might be expected, has all the virtues of specialised Nordic industrial sectors.

These include a mature market, a great familiarity between manufacturers and customers in a society of little more than five million and harsh winter conditions, which dictate the high consumption of paints.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the proposed acquisition of the inks and adhesive resins business of Dutch company Akzo Nobel by the USA’s Hexion, part of the Apollo Group. This follows a Commission inquiry focusing on potential damage to competition in supplies of printing ink industry resins, especially rosin resins.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITISH Vita and chemical multinational Dow (Benelux) are planning to secure European research funding via the EUREKA network to commercialise successful bio-polymer research, that has made strides towards manufacturing a foam from such ingredients. The European Commission’s directorate general (DG) for research has reported that a Vita-Dow-led consortium would focus on "the implementation of green polyols into PU foams".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DUTCH digital textile printers Ten Cate Advanced Textiles BV and Color Wings BV have won a ‘European Business Award for the Environment’ from the European Commission for "developing a digital technology for printing and finishing textiles using exactly dosed drops".…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved a subsidy regime for EU short flax fibre and hemp producers in the old fashioned way – paying money per tonne of fibre. Ministers agreed to extend until the end of the 2007/2008 marketing year processing aid of Euro 90/tonne for short flax fibre and hemp fibre and Euro 160/tonne for long flax fibre until 2007/2008, and Euro 200/tonne for 2008/2009 and thereafter.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE LATVIA and Netherlands governments want the European Commission to lower securities demanded from sugar producers wishing to restructure as the European Union lowers production aid. Brussels currently demands 120% of grants be lodged as security ahead of a payment.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared a proposed joint venture involving Campina, of the Netherlands, and Fonterra, who plan to combine their respective pharmaceutical and fine chemical lactose activities. Brussels has ruled that the deal would not damage competition in these related sectors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) member states are entitled to charge tobacco companies for additional excise stamps, even if they have previously bought such tax tokens, and they have subsequently been lost, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has concluded an overlap in Netherlands fleet leasing and management services is not sufficiently serious to block a planned takeover of international leasing and body repair company Athlon by a subsidiary of Holland’s Rabobank.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has initialled new fishing access deals with two African island nations: São Tomé e Principe, off west Africa, and Madagascar, in the Indian Ocean. The Madagascan deal will last six years from January 2007, and exclusively covers tuna.…