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Major vaping players are investing in innovative solutions to offer healthier, more pleasant, and more eco-friendly products, trying to reshape a segment facing a growing number of restrictive laws worldwide.

According to the Dublin-based market researcher Research and Markets, “the global e-cigarette market reached a value of USD20.4 billion in 2021” and should reach USD30 billion by 2027 (1).…

African environmental academics are struggling to get political and social support for their solutions to problems such as the desertification in North Africa and the Sahel region.

In Africa, there is a “disconnect” between policymakers and researchers, and “to some extent, even the community”, including research findings released by academics and even research institutes, said Sanusi Bello Shamaki, professor at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, north-west Nigeria.…

A lack of reliable data across Africa has weakened policies to improve higher education across the continent, development experts argue. They claim the problem is compromising the achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 4) (1) to leave no one behind in tertiary education by 2030, even though several local data development initiatives are trying to improve the flow of useful statistics.…

Embracing sustainability and digitisation are key to maintaining the international competitiveness of Japan’s textile industry, according to the country’s textile technology roadmap promoted at the 16th Asian Textile Conference (ATC-16) staged online over July 27–29.

The plan, released by Japan’s ministry of economy, trade and industry in May (2022) (1), formed the key component of ATC-16’s first plenary session and shaped much of the content throughout the three days of online lectures.…

An environment-friendly development in creating a key component of polyester has been hailed as a “path-breaking innovation that can change the future of the textile value chain and help the industry in moving toward its sustainability goal”.

This was the view of Gurudas Aras, a textile chemical consultant bases in Mumbai, India.…

Researchers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been developing the extraction of gelatine from camel skin and bones, to boost production of this important manufacturing input that is often sourced from pigs. This creates halal/haram tracing problems for food, drink, medical and cosmetics product manufacturers who use gelatine.…

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With the textile industry under pressure from consumers, regulators and standards to become more sustainable, companies are looking at all aspects of the supply chain – including upstream to fibre production. Digitalisation has a key role to play here, especially in supplier countries where the use of such technology is weak – such as in Africa.…

If you listen to Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Meta Platforms, which runs Facebook, humanity is about to take a quantum leap into living lives online as well as offline, interacting with people’s digital representations (avatars) via ‘metaverse’ virtual platforms. The question in AML terms is whether such systems, especially if widely used and interoperable, pose a new and growing risk of dirty money flows?…

GERMANY, a market known for meat consumption, is increasingly trying out plant-based alternatives and has developed one of the largest and fastest-growing meat substitute markets in Europe. As a result, German producers are largely focused on growing the domestic market, with limited exports to other European Union (EU) countries.…

Europe’s food and drink industry is facing tough general and industry-focused inflation rates not witnessed since the global financial crisis and its related recession in 2008-9. These past food inflation rates dipped sharply and quickly as governments took control of this crisis – government spending was mopped up by bad debts rather than additional purchases.…