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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardization (ISO) is developing standards for natural gas fuelling stations to help promote vehicles using this alternative fuel. A new committee ISO/PC 252 will coordinate the work, developing two standards: on fuelling stations for compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MULTILATERAL Guarantee Agency, of the World Bank, is considering a US dollar USD 5 million guarantee to foster a petrochemical industry in Iraq. Turkey’s Karo Dis Ticaret ve Sanayi Ltd wants planned investment in an Iraq PET plant protected against transfer restriction, expropriation, war and civil disturbance.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

MUSLIM fashion is traditionally conservative – a far cry from the often flashy fashion runways of the West. But a younger Muslim generation of female ‘hijabistas’ is combining Islamic values with high fashion, working hijabs and other head coverings into high-end, high fashion knitted and crocheted outfits.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE US DOLLAR USD$2 billion Turkish paint sector is the sixth largest in Europe, yet when it comes to its coatings trade with the Asia-Pacific region, Turkey imports a lot more than it exports. Turkey has had fluctuating business with the Asia Pacific region – defined as China, South Korea, Japan, the Indian subcontinent, South-East Asia, Mongolia, Australasia, the Marshall Islands, Vanuatu, and the Cook Islands.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

INDIAN garment exporters are losing to competition from China, Indonesia, Vietnam and Bangladesh, said a recent report released by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). Shipments to the European Union (EU) and the US account for nearly two thirds of the country’s textile and apparel exports, but registered a decline by value of 11% in 2009.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

REFORMING the customs union between the European Union (EU) and Turkey would boost the key EU-Turkish textiles and clothing trade, the European Parliament’s international trade committee has said.

A communiqué said despite industrial goods traded between Turkey and the EU being duty free, "customs union mechanisms need to be fully functional, bureaucracy simplified, and remaining tariff and non-tariff barriers removed."…

BY EMMA JACKSON

THE SUNFLOWER family is joining the ranks of other genetically sequenced oil crops, as a Canadian-led project maps the sunflower genome, part of the largest flowering family on the planet – with significant potential for commercial benefit for the oils and fats sector.…

BY ZLATKO CONKAS, and KEITH NUTHALL

WHEN imagining Europe’s greenest and most efficient energy systems, the countries of the former Yugoslavia do not readily spring to mind. The simple truth is Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and even Slovenia have a reputation for having ageing energy dirty systems.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

TURKEY’S US dollar USD2 billion (Great Britain Pounds GBP1.3 billion) Turkish paint sector is projected to grow 10% in 2010, rebounding after over a year of stagnant growth in the wake of the global financial crisis.

The country is Europe’s sixth largest paint manufacturer (for those who consider Eurasian Turkey part of Europe).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and ALYSHAH HASHAM

CANADA – long a difficult jurisdiction for the tobacco sector – became tougher still on July 5, when a national ban on manufacturing and selling most flavoured cigarettes, cigarillos and blunt wraps came into force.…