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COGENERATION, or rather trigeneration, units that cooled, heated and powered the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games won plaudits if no gold medals for the manufacturer – America’s GE – but neatly symbolised the spread of CHP into mainstream and niche applications.…

NEW Zealand used to be known as an exporter of raw materials and food – butter, wool, lamb – but in recent years, its government has been trying hard to boost local entrepreneurs by streamlining business regulation. Ken Warren, the country’s chief accounting advisor to New Zealand’s government, has been front-and-centre in these reforms, providing officials and politicians with the necessary data to make bold decisions.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

"We’re likely to see a growing trend towards toward biomass-based CHP over the next 10 years," said Daniella Muallem, senior research analyst at US-based IDC Energy Insights, EMEA division. This is already apparent in large cogen.

Case in point: an innovative 49.9MW biomass cogen plant – the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom – is on course to begin its commissioning phase in late 2012 before production starts in mid-2013.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN, IN EDMONTON

CANADA’S federal food inspection agency has released a new set of standards for biosecurity in beef products, which will aim to minimise the spread of endemic and infectious foreign diseases while strengthening the Canada’s beef industry.…

BY WANG FANGQING, IN SHANGHAI

Chinese textile and clothing manufacturers are expecting to struggle for business in the rest of 2012, with the worsening Euro crisis dampening demand in key export markets and improving sourcing rivals from neighbouring countries becoming increasingly competitive.…

BY POORNA RODRIGO

MOVES to re-shore the US garment manufacturing sector will not be easy, especially when "price is king" and in an industry where "fast fashion is also cheap fashion," the CEO of US fashion designer Karen Kane told just-style.…

BY POORNA RODRIGO AND MUNZA MUSTAQ, IN COLOMBO

Of course the BRICs countries are far from being the only emerging market suppliers for the global apparel sector – and a knot of competitors such as Bangladesh and Vietnam have long been vying for business.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE CASPIAN Sea oil and gas industry is among the most promising worldwide, so it can seem strange at face value to take in the spectacle of rigs going down, as well as up, sometimes cheek by jowl.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, IN BEIRUT

LEGISLATIVE change and the setting up of green building councils is pushing demand for environment-friendly coatings in the Gulf, but the lack of enforcement of eco-laws in the region and the ongoing recession has hampered potential growth.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

UPDATED data released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) has highlighted the rarity of foreign bribery convictions worldwide. Bringing records from 1999 up to December 2011, the OECD reported that globally just 151 people and 42 organisations (including companies) had been found guilty of this offence in the past 12 years.…