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BY EMMA JACKSON

PAINT companies looking for an edge may very well find themselves turning to robots, as the industry in the Asia-Pacific region increasingly embraces automation. Cost effective, efficient and consistent, robots are indeed replacing employees in paint manufacturing processes and applications of coatings to products such as cars and machinery.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is helping the USA deal with the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Coordinated by the EU emergency response group, the Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC), the EU will send oil skimmers and oil spill experts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission – the executive body of the European Union (EU) today formally launched its bid to develop common technical standards for electric vehicle rechargers. It told the continent’s standards bodies, the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CEN) and the European Electrotechnical Standardization Committee (CENELEC), and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to develop a common charging system for electric cars, as well as scooters and bicycles.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

BY its very nature, money laundering tells us that another crime is being, or has been committed. The detection of the act of money laundering itself is usually the handiwork of specialised Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) but these often do not have the resources or the responsibility to investigate the predicate crime.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has confirmed Euro EUR23.44 million in European Commission fines on five companies participating in an industrial thread cartel. Within this, judges reduced Belgian Sewing Thread’s fine from EUR980,000 to EUR856,800 because of cooperation in the cartel investigation sparking the original fines.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

A PACKAGING system is only as strong as its conveyors, and they can come in all shapes, sizes and specifications. Indeed, countless types of conveyors exist to support every kind of application, yet in the last year – facing challenging economics – companies have been adding even more to the line-up, improving on old ideas and creating completely new ones to add innovative new conveyor options to the market for manufacturers across Europe.…

BY ERIC LYMAN

THE TRIAL of 11 international bankers and two officials from the City of Milan got underway on May 19 in connection with a series of 2005 bond issues in which the parties are accused of generating as much as Euro EUR100 million in illegal fees and interest.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ROLL-OUT of the European eCall in-car emergency system is approaching critical mass with 20 countries now committed to operating its supporting infrastructure. The European Commission today announced another five countries were implementing eCall services – Belgium, Denmark, Luxemburg, Malta and Romania.…

BY KARRYN MILLER, ALAN OSBORN RAGHAVENDRA VERMA and WANG FANGQING

Private label drinks sales in supermarkets worldwide are no longer the poor relation of commercial ‘national’ brands – cheap drinks for consumers caring little about taste and brand image. A good place to examine this trend is the USA, whose private label offerings have often lagged behind those in Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ROLL-OUT of the European eCall in-car emergency system is approaching critical mass with 20 countries committed to its infrastructure. Belgium, Denmark, Luxemburg, Malta and Romania have now joined Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland and other supporters: Britain and France remain outsiders.…