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The European Union (EU) must continue awarding free allowances for carbon emissions to energy-intensive industries such as the non-ferrous metals sector, the EU’s energy and climate commissioner-designate Miguel Arias Cañete has said.

Speaking during his confirmation hearing in the European Parliament in Brussels yesterday (October 1), he said that free allowances should be given to efficient industry players through the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) to avoid pushing manufacturing out of Europe to jurisdictions with weaker climate controls.…

UTILITY executives will have been carefully analysing the unveiling on Wednesday (September 10) of a new European Commission team to take office from November 1. As well as new personnel, a key initial move with potentially important implications for European Union (EU) energy policy was the uniting of the current energy and climate portfolios.…

Product lifecycle management (PLM) systems help apparel companies share information more efficiently and plan for future lines more accurately as time-to-market shrinks.

Software such as the WFX Cloud PLM helps speed up companies’ processes from product concept and design to delivery at stores, said Jatin Paul, CEO of WFX (World Fashion Exchange).…

TAKING trends from runways and magazines and turning them into off-the-rack garments within weeks is no easy feat – but global fast fashion retailers consistently demonstrate that their supply chains are adequate.

While speed is, of course, an important part of the process, a shorter timeframe between garment design and point of sale does not necessarily mean a larger margin of errors.…

AS its name suggests, the lifeblood of the fast fashion industry is largely, speed to market – meaning that in many cases, traditional, weeks-long methods of shipping garments via sea or truck are no longer making the grade.

Fast fashion brands such as Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), Gap Inc, Uniqlo Co Ltd, Zara, F21 Red, Topshop, and Peacocks Stores Ltd rely on the air cargo industry to ship products quickly to stores around worldwide, according to a spokesperson from the International Air Transport Association (IATA).…

THE LATEST European Commission annual report on European Union (EU) anti-fraud measures has highlighted concerns that member states may be doing far too little to detect EU-related financial crime. Keith Nuthall reports.

A 2013 Report on the Protection of the EU’s Financial Interests noted that some member states reported “very low numbers of fraudulent irregularities” – but the Commission does not believe this is because they are clean.…

THE LATEST European Commission annual report on European Union (EU) anti-fraud measures has claimed member states may be doing too little to detect EU-related financial crime. Brussels’ 2013 Report on the Protection of the EU’s Financial Interests noted some member states reported “very low numbers of fraudulent irregularities”.…

THE LATEST European Commission annual report on European Union (EU) anti-fraud measures has highlighted concerns that member states may be doing far too little to detect EU-related financial crime.
Brussels’ 2013 Report on the Protection of the EU’s Financial Interests noted that some member states reported “very low numbers of fraudulent irregularities”.…

Latin America’s cosmetics and personal care products sector has boomed as consumers take advantage of their rising disposable incomes. The region (including Mexico) accounted for 17% of global sales in the beauty and personal care industry, according to market analysts Euromonitor International in 2013. …

US-based Baker & Taylor and Canada-based Whitehots Inc have agreed to cooperate in offering Canadian libraries and schools a one-stop, cloud-based platform to acquire and distribute print and digital material. “What was missing in the [Canadian] market was a Canadian company that was able to sell both print and digital materials to Canadian public and school libraries,” said Russ Culver, CEO of Whitehots.…