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A Spanish study project is working to find a way to join dissimilar metals for use in the automotive industry to increase the proportion of lighter weight parts. Research organisation CIC marGUNE, the Co-operative Research Centre into High-performance Manufacturing, based in Eibar, in the Basque Country, is coordinating a group of Spain-based studies whose aim is fusing different metals for auto production.…

THE EUROPEAN Union’s executive, the European Commission has threatened Germany with legal action unless it orders its automakers to comply with EU legislation covering mobile air conditioning systems in motor vehicles. If Berlin refuses and the case goes against it in the European Court of Justice (ECJ), Germany could end up paying massive recurring fines of thousands of Euros a day, until it complies.…

EXPERTS on China’s textile and apparel industry say that international brands must take increasing care to ensure their sourcing is environmentally and socially responsible, with tightening government restrictions anticipated.

Their comments to just-style come after the release of a China National Textile and Apparel Council’s (CNTAC) 2013-2014 social responsibility report of the textile industry, released last month (September).…

As the global apparel sector searches for more eco-friendly fibres and fabrics, innovative developments are increasingly focusing on more sustainable and often unusual alternative feedstocks.
Companies are being encouraged to innovate also by recent high cotton prices and a growing awareness that tighter control of supply chains can help keep costs down in general.…

THE EUROPEAN pharmaceutical industry’s fast-track approach to investing in the Ebola virus disease (EVD) has been welcomed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), as progress in fighting the disease in west Africa starts being made. Speaking to members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in Brussels on Wednesday (Nov 5), the WHO regional director for Europe Zsuzsanna Jakab said that although in the past, EVD was considered a disease of poverty and therefore commercial interests and benefits were unclear, today that attitude had changed.…

Pharmaceuticals are at the heart of the ambitious trade agreement whose final details have just been agreed between the European Union (EU) and Canada, with both sides agreeing that it will improve market access and facilitate innovation for drug companies on both sides of the Atlantic.…

THE CATTLEMEN’S Beef Promotion and Research Board in the USA will spend USD10.5 million of its USD39 million investments planned for the fiscal year of October 1, 2014-2015 to promote beef sales in its domestic market.

The goal of this consumer information campaign is to “improve domestic preference for beef by educating consumers about things like beef safety, nutrition and health, convenience, taste and value,” the board’s communications manager Diane Henderson told globalmeatnews.com.…

THE TOBACCO sector and trade in the countries neighbouring Syria have been impacted by the flight of more than 3 million (some reports say 5 million) from its civil war. Due to the Syrian conflict, smuggling has increased to supply the Syrian market (still at least 17 million people), while the lack of governmental controls has promoted illicit sales in Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon, while the influx of refugees has led to growth in lower priced legitimate cigarettes.…

THE IDENTITY of the new European Union trade commissioner charged with bringing the planned Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) to conclusion was unveiled today. Cecilia Malmström of Sweden, who is currently the EU’s home affairs commissioner, has been nominated to hold this sensitive position from November 1.…

THE EUROPEAN Medicines Agency (EMA) is consulting on proposed changes to rules governing access to its EudraVigilance database of suspected reported adverse reactions to authorised medicines. It receives more than one million adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports annually.

EMA wants to boost access to take account of recent European Union (EU) pharmacovigilance reforms that increase transparency, the introduction of direct patient reporting, and the pharmaceutical industry’s revised responsibility for monitoring EudraVigilance data for new safety issues, following a simplification of EU adverse reaction reporting rules.…