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BY KEITH NUTHALL

LITTLE more excites the international auto industry more than the search for an alternative to fossil fuels, and an American company is now looking seriously into the idea of using a heavy element thorium to generate locomotive power.…

BY TRICIA OBEN

MATERIALS buyers from large emerging market BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) have been dominating poorer developing world countries for years now, with Indian and Chinese buyers especially, cornering the car battery recycling market in west Africa’s Cameroon, for instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project will this month start developing a prototype polymer-zinc car battery, significantly lighter, safer and more environment-friendly than existing batteries. Their lead acid, lithium and nickel bases have waste disposal, weight and chemical stability problems.…

BY MONIKA HANLEY, LEE ADENDORFF, MARK ROWE, ALAN OSBORN, MINDY RAN, GERARD O’DWYER and MARTINA MARECKOVA

FOR an industry that generates energy, heat and maybe cooling, the European cogeneration sector has been operating on a decidedly low output in recent years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and DAVE YIN

THIS has been the year where the European Union (EU) considered imposing a draconian origin labelling law that would have been a major headache for knitwear manufacturers and retailers. In the winter, the European Parliament was seriously discussing insisting on a regulation forcing knitwear and crocheted clothes and accessories imports into the EU to carry country of origin labels.…

BY GERARD O’DWYER

DENMARK’S ambition to expand what it regards as sovereign territorial rights over mineral deposits in the Arctic regions around its Greenland and Faroe Islands dependent territories is certain to interest other northern countries, including Canada, the United States and Russia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, has agreed to help the Russian Energy Agency improve energy efficiency in industry and housing, develop renewable energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The IFC said targeted investments in energy efficiency alone could reduce Russia’s annual consumption of gas by 240 billion cubic metres, crude oil by 43 million tonnes.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

SOUTH KOREA: Student stress fuels suicides as standards rise

Karryn Miller

A spate of suicides amongst South Korean students has fuelled fears that the country’s higher education system is too tough, with pressures increasing as universities seek to compete with institutions overseas.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

WHILE the goal for many clothing manufacturers and brands is to gain an international presence, there is a key risk associated with selling the same designs in different global markets – the more far and wide that clothing designs go, the more shapes and sizes they must come in.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project is about to start developing a prototype zinc-polymer car battery, which its scientists hope will be significantly lighter, safer and more environment-friendly than existing batteries. These are of course based on lead acid, lithium and nickel – all carrying problems associated with waste disposal, weight and chemical stability.…