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Using cosmetics is not just window dressing, but can boost real happiness in consumers, European industry organisation Cosmetics Europe president Loïc Armand has told Soap, Perfumery & Cosmetics in an exclusive interview. Speaking on the sidelines of the Cosmetics Europe Week 2016 conference ‘Personal Care in a Changing World’ (June 13-17), Armand said: “People think that cosmetics are just about looking good, and that they are just superficial, but I think it should be recognised in law that cosmetic products can have real well-being benefits.”…

THE ASIA-Pacific coatings additives market is big business, and is getting bigger. According to Pune, India-based market research organisation Markets and Markets, the coatings additives market in the Asia-Pacific region will be worth USD2.81 billion in 2016 and is expected to grow at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 7.2% until 2021.…

Authorities in China are currently developing a new range of regulations aimed at efficacy claims that when passed will have a broad-ranging impact for domestic and foreign cosmetics manufacturers, alongside other regulations covering labelling and ethics. The proposed regulations are aimed at standardising the industry and providing a basis on which prosecutions can be brought in order to reduce safety concerns.…

Oil and gas owners and operators working offshore in the Middle East face looming corrosion and erosion detection and prevention challenges to continue operating their ageing assets efficiently, safely and within regulatory requirements in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states.…

WORKFORCE DEMOGRAPHICS

East Asia is a very varied region in terms of economic development. Take the 10 members of trade bloc ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations): with 632 million people, demographics greatly vary, from aging Singapore and Thailand, to the younger and emerging economies of Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines.…

Autoparts researchers are developing the use of grasses, such as hemp or flax, to make tough bioplastics that are lightweight and also help reduce a vehicle’s carbon footprint by using a renewable resource as an input.

A key innovator is Bruce Dietzen, president of Renew Design, a Florida, USA-based company that produces custom-ordered cars whose body components are made from processing the outer stalk of hemp plants through combining it with a synthetic resin and placed in a mold.…

WITH personnel managers in Britain and continental Europe worrying about the impact of the UK’s Brexit vote to quit the European Union (EU), human resources experts in the 10 country Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc are facing the opposite challenge, an increase in freedom of movement of workers.…

THE ASIA Pacific region remains the workshop of the world in terms of nonwovens production, and it is not only China’s producers who are growing, local suppliers are feeding growing domestic markets for nonwovens products elsewhere in east and southeast Asia.…

LIVESTOCK exporters using the key southern Somalia port of Kismayo are calling for facility improvements to spur this trade, which is of critical importance to the economic health of this war-wracked region.
Inefficiencies, outdated infrastructure and tainted global image courtesy of piracy, is not only holding back livestock exports but curtailing efforts to make Kismayo port profitable, said Ibrahim Ahmed Abdinoor, chief executive officer of the African Shipping Line, which has offices in Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and Dubai.…

Brazil will continue to challenge the USA for the position of being the world’s biggest meat producer and exporter over the next 10 years, with chicken leading the way, Brazilian government forecasts indicate. It says that Brazilian meat production in 2025/26 will be 29.8% higher than in 2015/6 – amounting to 7.8 million tonnes in additional production – resulting in 23.6 million tonnes of output.…