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TURKEY’S paints and coatings industry has set itself the target of becoming the third largest paints and coatings sector in Europe by 2023 as it seeks to become a key regional hub within the international industry as a whole.

According to data from Turkey’s Association of Paint Industry (Boya Sanayicileri Dernegi – BOSAD), the size of the Turkish paints and coatings market reached 840,000 tonnes in 2012, with a value of USD2 billion.…

A NEW World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreement cracking down on trade-based red tape, inappropriate fees and bad practice could have a significant and beneficial impact on the plastics industry if implemented in full, say experts. WTO officials may warn that it could take between three and five years for member countries to ratify this agreement on trade facilitation, but they argue changes should be worth the wait.…

The Russian government is to draft fresh state measures to support domestic producers of wool and flax fibres.

Acting on direction from the office of President Vladimir Putin, the Russian ministry of industry and trade will boost Russian wool production through the creation of special trading centres that will buy wool from farmers at prices that are high enough to encourage production.…

THE SUPPLIER of clothing to the Russian Olympics team and associated retail spin-offs has told WTiN.com how their sourcing has been global, despite the patriotic nature of their contract.

Russia-based Bosco di Ciliegi has been an official exclusive supplier of clothing for the Russian national Olympics team since 2001, including the ongoing Sochi winter games.…

Sri Lanka’s apparel and textile sector exported a record USD4.3 billion in 2013 and its Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAAF) has predicted overseas sales will continue rising this year.

Its president Noel Piyatilake told just-style said the industry is targeting an ambitious mark of USD6 billion exports by 2020, making Sri Lanka one of the world’s top 10 apparel exporting countries.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched talks with Russia and Norway to strike agreements on cooperation between their and European Union customs and tax officials to help fight cross-border VAT fraud. The goal, said a Brussels note, would be “helping each country recover the VAT it is due.”…

TURKEY’S clothing industry is anticipating stronger export growth in 2014, despite growing concerns within the sector about increasing pressure on price from European retailers.

Cem Negrin, president of the Turkish Clothing Manufacturers’ Association (TCMA) said that the Turkish garment industry is aiming for growth of between 9% and 10% in 2014.…

COSTA Rica’s pork sector has welcomed Japan’s declaration that the central American country is free of Classical Swine Fever (CSF), opening the doors to its pigmeat exporters to tap the lucrative Japanese market. “The pork industry is very important for the country and our goal is for national production to increase and strengthen,” said Doctor Silvia Niño Villamizar, a member of the regulation department of the Animal Products Safety Directorate (DIPOA) for Costa Rica’s National Animal Health Service (SENASA). …

PepsiCo has launched a patent claim in the Russian kvass market against the X5 Retail Group, one of Russia’s leading retail chains, alleging its recently registered Russkiy Kvass brand apes PepsiCo’s Russkiy Dar, in label design and marketing. 

PepsiCo last week filed an objection to the Russian Chamber of Patent Disputes, asking to annul X5’s kvass brand, Anton Drushchits, PepsiCo’s Russia intellectual property protection chief.…

THE USE of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags in the food and drink sector might have grown exponentially in the past 10 years, but the technology is likely to become even more ubiquitous worldwide. UK-based retailers and pioneers in the use of the technology Marks & Spencer and Tesco can now chalk up a decade of experience in the use of RFID, from distribution centre (DC) operations right through to retail floor item-level tagging.…