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SOUTH Africa’s paints and coatings market will grow a cumulative 40% to South African rand ZAR9.77 billion (USD823 million) between 2016 and 2021, driven by continued construction and urbanisation, according to new figures.

Statistics supplied by market researcher Euromonitor International have forecasted that the country’s home paints market will grow from ZAR3.48 billion (USD293.3 million) to ZAR4.88 billion (USD411.5 million) during this five-year period.…

AMIDST warnings from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the country’s central bank, of a “demographic trilemma” facing the wealthy city state’s ageing workers, employers say the answer lies in creating “ageless workplaces” led by transformational changes.

An ageing population coupled with a low birth rate is set to slow down workforce growth in Singapore from 3.3% per year between 2010 and 2015, to about 1% annually from now until mid-2020s, Singapore National Employers Federation director, planning, research and information, Chua Ker Sin, told People Management.…

THE INTERNATIONAL coatings industry may have a new and potentially booming niche to exploit – coatings that can harvest sunlight and heat and turn it into renewable electricity, without being incorporated into solar panels.

Noted a paper from the Indian Institute of Technology, in Patna: “As the energy demands are growing day by day, there is need of enhancing the efficiency of energy systems, which can be enhanced using the advanced coatings.”…

HONG Kong tertiary education suppliers are recognising the need to ensure vocational skills are integrated into their courses, as the territory faces up to a skill shortage “epidemic”, highlighted by employment surveys.

One – released last September (2017) by Hong Kong based think tank, the Bauhinia Foundation Research Centre, that polled 2,493 parents and students, found that a high proportion of university graduates did not match the labour market needs.…

INDIA’S 12 newly sanctioned nuclear reactors with 9,000-megawatt (MW) capacity may use imported fuel, but most of the equipment will be made in India, government officials have told Fuel Cycle Week.

“We will see what is the maximum [amount of fuel] we can get from within the country and then what will be the external input of fuel,” Malur Ramaswamy Srinivasan, member of India’s Atomic Energy Commission, told Fuel Cycle Week.…

JAPAN’S long-standing exposure to organised crime groups such as the Yakuza means that however effective the country’s anti-money laundering and combatting the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) systems maybe, they will continue to face sophisticated challenges.

Despite enhanced criminal and civil legislation targeting Japan’s underworld groups, such as the February 2000 Act on the Punishment of Organised Crimes and the March 2007 Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds (See part 4 at https://www.npa.go.jp/sosikihanzai/jafic/en/maneron_e/manetop_e.htm),…

IF there is one issue that is a key focus of the north American nonwovens sector this year, it has to be the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the USA, Canada and Mexico.

Tri-lateral talks have now reached their eighth round, with an objective of achieving a new deal by this summer, although observers believe this timescale might slip.…

KNITTED medical products are a specialist niche requiring finely calibrated production and a skilled work force, playing to the strengths of Asian technology leaders Japan and Taiwan in building a reputation in this segment. With the third-largest healthcare market in the world, Japan is poised for growth in its medtech industry, noted a November 2017 report by McKinsey & Co.…

THE BULL run in the British rural land market is over, or at least has slowed to a trot. After rising by 149% over the 10 years to 2016, research by the property consultancy Carter Jonas indicates that that the value of British (UK, excluding Northern Ireland) farmland fell by more than 8% last year.…

IF there is a quality that gives many Israeli companies an edge internationally, it is innovation. And this trait can certainly be said to run through the work of Israeli apparel major Delta Galil, based in Caesarea, northern Israel.

“We could not succeed if we were not innovative” said Isaac Dabah, the company’s CEO of Delta Galil, in an exclusive interview with just-style, held at his office.…