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USA PAINT AND COATINGS INDUSTRY HIT BY TRADE WAR WITH CHINA, DESPITE ROBUST ECONOMY
The US paint and coatings industry is set to experience pain as “the spectre of significantly reduced profits looms large” because of the ongoing trade war over tariffs with China, a trade think-tank has warned.
And American industry representatives have indicated job losses and “negative financial impacts” could result from the tariffs increasing the cost of chemicals and other raw materials imported by the sector.…
EUROPEAN NONWOVENS SECTOR GROWS EXPORTS AS A HIGH QUALITY CENTRE OF INNOVATION
EXPORTS of nonwovens products from the European Union (EU) to the rest of the world are on the rise, with in 2018 such overseas sales of nonwovens (whether or not impregnated, coated, covered or laminated) within the 28 members of the European Union (EU) accounted for EUR4.33 billion, up from EUR4.19 billion in 2017.…
BRITISH COATINGS SECTOR OPTIMISTIC FOR THE LONG-TERM, DESPITE DISRUPTION EXPECTED SHOULD BREXIT COME TO PASS
THE UK paint and coatings sales may be on a downward trend according to the latest market data but industry experts are hoping that the industry will bounce back in the medium to long term, even should the country exit the European Union (EU).…
INDUSTRIAL MINERAL SECTOR HONES SKILLS THROUGH DETAILED INTERNATIONAL, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL STANDARDS
THE INDUSTRIAL minerals mining and processing sector and its customers has an increasingly complex and global supply chain and as a result, international technical standards are growing in utility and importance. Where suppliers and retailers follow and require the use of international standards to guide their operations and products, there will be fewer nasty surprises, in orders and purchases.…
EU RESEARCH INTO COLLOIDS COULD OPEN DOOR TO NEW DYES DEVELOPMENT
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is funding an international research project that is developing new fast ways of making colloids – mixtures of one substance comprising insoluble microscopic particles suspended in another substance. These materials can include dyes, but the process of making colloids can be very slow, limiting industrial applications.…
USA UPDATES ITS NATIONAL POULTRY IMPROVEMENT PLAN
THE US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is set to release proposed reforms to the country’s National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP), a decades-old cooperative federal-state-industry mechanism for controlling poultry disease threats.
APHIS said the revisions were discussed at the NPIP biennial conference held last June (2018) and will incorporate the latest science, technology and best practices in the sector.…
USA UPDATES ITS NATIONAL POULTRY IMPROVEMENT PLAN
THE US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is set to release proposed reforms to the country’s National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP), a decades-old cooperative federal-state-industry mechanism for controlling poultry disease threats.
APHIS said the revisions were discussed at the NPIP biennial conference held last June (2018) and will incorporate the latest science, technology and best practices in the sector.…
EU RESEARCH INTO COLLOIDS COULD OPEN DOOR TO NEW DYES DEVELOPMENT
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is funding an international research project that is developing new fast ways of making colloids – mixtures of one substance comprising insoluble microscopic particles suspended in another substance. These materials can include dyes, but the process of making colloids can be very slow, limiting industrial applications.…
FRAUD DETECTION TECH BECOMING MORE SOPHISTICATED – BUT ALLYING IT WITH HUMAN EXPERTISE WORKS BEST
FRAUD detection is undergoing “significant disruption” with credibility assessment approaching “a significant inflection point” with traditional polygraph solutions being supplanted machine learning and biometric techniques, said leading US fraud examiner Pamela Meyer.
She said the industry is in “a deception arms race”, with fraudsters – as usual – trying to outwit the latest developments.…
EU/WTO REGULATORY ROUND UP – EU TRANSFAT REGULATION RELEASED
THE EUROPEAN Commission has passed a new European Union (EU) regulation that will limit the amount of trans-fats that can be present within food products sold across the EU from April 2021.
This new rule, authorised under powers already granted to the EU executive, will impose a maximum limit of trans-fats of 2 grams per 100 grams of fat, excluding naturally-occurring animal origin trans-fats.…