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THE European Union (EU) commissioner-designate for industry, internal market, entrepreneurship and small and medium sized-enterprises (SME) – Elżbieta Bieńkowska, [NAME CHECKED] has promised to present next year a plan with all the actions meant to support European industry, including non-ferrous metals.…

By the end of next year, the increasingly wealthy 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc aims to establish its own European Union-style common market for its combined population of 600 million.
Experts say that the new ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is expected to deepen cohesion and liberalisation within a regional market that has already made significant strides in removing trade barriers that can impact tobacco product sales.…

The European steel industry has asked for a signal from the European Council that it can keep on working in Europe and Germany especially, working with an emissions control system that enables it to compete globally. Speaking to Steel First ahead of the European summit which begins tomorrow (Oct 23), Bernd Overmaat, the compliance spokesperson for the world’s largest steel producer ThyssenKrupp AG, said emission certificates should be allocated free of charge under the EU’s emissions trading system.…

THE INCOMING president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has united the Commission’s portfolios of energy and climate action, nominating Spain’s Miguel Arias Cañete as energy and climate commissioner. If confirmed by the European Parliament, he will serve for the next five years.…

THE PLASTICS industry will be especially influenced over the next five years by four new European Union (EU) commissioners who have been nominated to serve in the new European Commission of its incoming president Jean-Claude Juncker. Assuming they are confirmed in their positions and begin work on November 1, a key figure will be new health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis, a former Lithuanian health minister who will be responsible for food contact materials and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).…

THE CONFECTIONERY and sweet bakery sector worldwide has benefited from technological development regarding sweeteners, but these new food technologies have had to undergo rigorous safety tests by food regulators.‏

Both the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) for the European Union (EU) and the USA’s Food & Drug Administration (FDA) have undertaken detailed assessments, amidst some public concern about their safety.‏…

ANTIMICROBIAL textile manufacturers face an ever increasing number of mandatory and voluntary standards around the world that clarify and specify how they can ensure safety, quality, and proper testing of their products. With bacteria becoming more resistant to anti-microbial treatments, this is of special importance to cleanroom managers in hospitals, laboratories, food research, military and other sectors.…

The Bangladesh cabinet on Monday (Nov 10) finally proposed a long awaited law to regulate Bangladesh’s audit profession, which had been stalled amidst disagreements between auditors and management accountants

A draft Financial Reporting Act will now be presented for a vote by the country’s parliament, the Jatiyo Sangshad, although the government has yet to release full details.…

The co-author of a new report highlighting major concerns about low wages in Turkey’s textile and garment industry has called for global brands sourcing from the country to act more responsibly.

‘Stitched Up: Poverty Wages for Garment Workers in Eastern Europe and Turkey,’ was published earlier this year by The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), an alliance of organisations including trade unions and non-governmental organisations in 16 European countries.…

Pakistan is gearing up to launch a vocational training programme to train 120,000 male and female workers over a period of five years to acquire skills required in the country’s economically important textile industry.

Pakistan’s minister for the textile industry Abbas Khan Afridi told the WTiN.com…