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BY JENS KASTNER

With their combined population of just under 9 million, the south Pacific island territories, excluding New Zealand, are a set of small and hard to reach markets – so it is maybe no surprise that only a handful of companies tap their paint and coatings demand.…

IT is a curious irony that for an industry as technical as cogeneration that maybe the biggest handicap to its sustained growth in Europe is actually emotional. Both commercial markets and governments are swayed by sentiment as well as hard cash – and currently both influences are failing to pull in co-gen’s favour.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) will update its System of National and Regional Accounts (ESA) for public administrations across the EU from October 2014, the European Commission has announced: “The objective of the change is to bring these essential macroeconomic statistics in line with the current economic environment,” said François Lequiller, director for government finance statistics at Eurostat.     …

IT is a curious irony that for an industry as technical as cogeneration that maybe the biggest handicap to its sustained growth in Europe is actually emotional. Both commercial markets and governments are swayed by sentiment as well as hard cash – and currently both influences are failing to pull in co-gen’s favour.…

AS businesses and consumers increasingly adopt a ‘digital lifestyle’ using mobile platforms such as tablets and smartphones, communication services providers (CSPs) are asking how best to monetise services while lowering costs. CSPs want to maximise yield per customer and reduce the churn for users consuming a range of data, voice and SMS text services.…

Policymakers and industrial officials across China’s industrial minerals complex face an uneasy Chinese New Year break, as they assess how best to balance new policy imperatives from Beijing with their own often-competing interests.

The historic ‘third plenary’ central committee meeting of China’s top leaders in Beijing last November concluded with a “resolution” pledging to allow the market to play a more “decisive” role in the allocation of resources.…

INDONESIA’S nonwovens market is expanding rapidly, in particular because of rising demand for consumer products. At around 246 million people, Indonesia has easily the largest population among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc. The country’s economy has grown at an annual average of 6% over recent years, although there are signs that growth could be slowing, with the World Bank forecasting growth of 5.6% in 2013 and 5.3% in 2014, compared with 6.2% in 2012.…

THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) has struck a global deal that should ease import and customs procedures that can hold up the delivery of paints, coatings and their ingredients to export and import customers.

This agreement on trade facilitation was agreed by a WTO ministerial conference in Bali, Indonesia, in December.…

PLANS to open more branches of foreign universities in South Korea Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) are back on track, say managers of the development. The US-based George Mason University, and the University of Utah, and Belgium-based Ghent University, are planning to open branches at Incheon this year (2014).…

The European Commission this week opened the way for universities, research organisations and businesses to apply for a share of its massive Euro 80 billion Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme but questions have already been raised over whether the proposed selection procedures will be good enough to reduce complaints about awards, as Brussels hopes.…