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Indonesia’s paint and coatings industry is experiencing robust growth, driven by a booming construction sector and government infrastructure projects. However, the industry is also navigating a shifting regulatory landscape and grappling with challenges in raw material sourcing and skilled labour shortages.…

Paints and coatings companies worldwide are rushing to find new raw materials to develop eco-friendly products in line with international requirements and global sustainable goals, but the task has been difficult and time consuming.

As countries and companies race to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which includes urgent action to fight climate change (1), regulators are becoming increasingly intolerant of toxic chemicals in paints and coatings.…

Former UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) director Lisa Osofsky observed in 2022 that the material her agency had to work through in a typical case, if printed, would fill 22 London buses – so could artificial intelligence (AI) aid the management of such tough cases?…

The use of holistic assessment tools that avoid a heavy reliance on narrow data fields are being increasingly adopted for evaluating higher education PhD programmes and individual student performance, a European University Association (EUA) meeting has been told.

‘Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts’, was the name of a session about rethinking research assessment at the 2024 EUA Council for Doctoral Education (EUA-CDE) annual meeting, which took place on June 26-28, in Barcelona, Spain.…

A lack of infrastructure, government support, foreign trade barriers and weak domestic demand have been hampering the development of the wool industry in central Asia. Limited business opportunities are forcing farmers to focus on breeding sheep for lamb and mutton meat production, especially in Kazakhstan, the region’s wool potential powerhouse, rather than on rearing merino for wool.…

The textile industry is undergoing a transformative shift with the increasing use of prepared-for-print (PFP) fabrics, essential in the digital textile printing landscape. These innovations are driven by technological advancements, sustainability efforts and market demand for quality and efficiency. Leading companies such as France-based finishing technology provider SENFA; Haryana, India-based cloth manufacturer Pearl Global Industries; and Paris, France-based interlinings manufacturer Chargeurs are at the forefront of this evolution.…

The European Union (EU) has been moving towards creating a groundbreaking carbon removal certification scheme, allowing food producers to gain financial benefits for innovative sustainability, but such work by EU dairy farmers has yet to be properly recognised. That is the criticism of EU food producers’ association Copa-Cogeca, commenting on an upcoming EU regulation on a ‘certification framework for permanent carbon removals, carbon farming and carbon storage in products’ (1).…

Companies and public sector organisations could sharpen their fraud prevention efforts, according to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), making sure that red flags raised by background checks on potential employees are acted upon, if these assessments are made at all.…

A major advance in textile-to-textile recycling was made this May (2024), with Lululemon Athletica, the Vancouver, Canada-based athleisure partnering with Sydney, Australia-based enviro-tech firm Samsara Eco to pioneer the production infinitely recycled nylon 6,6 and polyester derived from apparel waste (1).…

Anti-fraud experts are calling for an increase in cross-sector sharing of data relevant to fighting graft and deception to improve both quantity and quality of information fed into artificial intelligence (AI) models designed to predict fraud risks. They argue the need is important as bad actors use AI to develop increasingly sophisticated scams.  …