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ITALY’s parallel Cosmoprof and Cosmopack shows always push quality in key aspects of the personal care product industry and its 2016 edition was all about precision, personalisation, portable beauty and high-tech beauty solutions

An innovative new beauty product presented at this year’s 49^th edition of the international beauty trade show, Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna [March 18-21, 2016] proves that, like smart-fashion, the cosmetics and personal care sector is ready for portable technology.…

When analyst firm Stratecast (part of consultant group Frost & Sullivan) last year (Feb) identified Infonova as one of its ‘Top 10 to Watch’ in global telecoms operations and monetisation, they had strong reasons for doing so.

Infonova managing director Gerhard Greiner explained how his Austria-based telecoms firm has developed an innovative digital metering system that can be used by a wide-range of industries that measure services electronically.…

NORTH America’s textile sector – of which technical textiles comprise nearly 70% production by value in the USA and just below 50% in Canada – has grown slowly when compared with global production. And growth within the industry in North America will further slow by 2020 due to competition from the Asia-Pacific region and Western Europe, according to industry analysts at Euromonitor. …

AIR travellers to Mexico City are looking forward to the opening – now scheduled for 2020 – of a new international airport, serving a conurbation of more than 21.5 million people. Construction began on November 13, the government has announced. The current Benito Juárez International Airport is operating at beyond its 32 million passenger annual capacity according to the Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México (GACM).…

A COST of maintaining nuclear generation capacity of between 95 GWe and 105GWe in the European Union (EU) until 2050 and beyond will cost between EUR350 and EUR450 billion over the next 35 years, the European Commission has concluded. (That is between USD398 billion and USD511 billion at current exchange rates).…

MULTI-COUNTRY regions such as eastern Europe do not always follow the same script when it comes to market performance. Sometimes, when major events happen, such as the global financial crisis, it is difficult for national coatings markets to buck the trend, but with the recovery now established, weakening economic headwinds, the latent differences between national markets can become clear.…

Turkish denim firms have roared onto the global market in recent years, impressing consumers, terrifying the competition.

These companies are aided by Turkey’s high quality cotton – particularly that produced in the country’s Aegean region on the west coast. Aegean premium cotton is renowned for its ability to retain paint and for its softness and absorbency, all without genetic modification.…

It is high time universities started to measure more what achieve in student learning, and less in enrolment, the Presidents’ Forum of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) has been told. The president of the Netherlands’ Maastricht University’s, Professor Jo Ritzen, referenced an American study in 2011 which found that many USA university and college students did not learn much at all.…

CONSUMERS should eat more vegetables, but less meat and fish, according to new dietary advice issued on March 31 by the Netherlands Nutrition Centre Foundation (NNC – Stichting Voedingscentrum Nederland), the government’s food advisory body.

The key change is recommending a daily dose of 250 grammes (g) instead of 200g of vegetables.…

Laboratory-grown meat has moved from a distant sci-fi concept to a realistic idea that could be commercialised and mainstream in just a few years, according to industry experts. “We aim to commercialise in four to five years, and it will become mainstream in the two to three years after that,” Prof Mark J Post, professor and chair of physiology at Maastricht University, in the Netherlands, told just-food.…