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Japan’s struggles with an ageing and declining population have been a frequent sources of angst for many sectors of the national economy in recent years, not least the cosmetics and personal care products industry. And while its domestic sales maintained moderate growth in the three years from 2012, there has been concern about the plateau that Japanese consumers would inevitably reach and the decline that would follow.…

Japan’s struggles with an ageing and declining population have been a frequent sources of angst for many sectors of the national economy in recent years, not least the cosmetics and personal care products industry. And while its domestic sales maintained moderate growth in the three years from 2012, there has been concern about the plateau that Japanese consumers would inevitably reach and the decline that would follow.…

INNOVATIVE ways of powering trains are poised for mainstream use in the global transport industry. Today, the most common trains are still those powered by diesel engines, but there is a continuing shift towards electricity and alternative power sources.

“With rail expected to play an increasingly important role in future transport systems…there is a lot of focus on how it should be more energy efficient,” said Andrew Foulkes, a communications manager at Ricardo Rail, a UK-based railway engineering and consultancy firm.…

THE GLOBAL trade in counterfeit and pirated goods could be so large, it might account for 2.5% of imports and exports worldwide, a report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) and the European Union (EU) has claimed. Released today, (April 18) ‘Trade in Counterfeit and Pirated Goods: Mapping the Economic Impact’ has valued imported fake goods worldwide at USD461 billion in 2013, compared with total global imports of USD17.9 trillion.…

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).…

The worldwide market for smart fabrics is projected to be USD2.2 billion in 2016 and is growing at an 18% clip annually, according to topline numbers presented by the Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI), at the Smart Fabrics Summit held in Washington DC on April 11.…

KNITWEAR manufacturers used to plan production a year in advance, but the advent of fast fashion has changed all that. Today, suppliers are being asked to supply goods in some cases weeks in advance of a product line going to market.…

CAREFUL advice has been generated by an Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) project coordinated by GlaxoSmithKline and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) about accurately assessing pharmacovigilance information from different datasets.

The 2009-2015 PROTECT project aimed to produce guidance on tapping different sources of information about the impact of authorised medicines.…

BOOMING inflation is driving consumers in Argentina to switch to chicken and pork and away from pricier beef, a mainstay for decades.

Argentines ate an annualised 56 kilogrammes (kg) of beef in the first quarter [OF 2016?], down 5.9% from a year earlier – the sharpest decline in six years, according to data from the Argentina’s meat industry and trade chamber CICCRA (La Cámara de la Industria y el Comercio de Carnes y Derivados de la República Argentina).…