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ISO OFFERS NUCLEAR SECTOR GLOBAL STANDARDS TO SPREAD BEST PRACTICE
BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and ALAN OSBORN
THE NUCLEAR energy industry has always been a global business, and since the fall of communism, it has become more, not less international. As a result, the need for common standards and practices, relevant to the industry, its suppliers and its customers is becoming increasingly important.…
UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS POSING CHALLENGE FOR GLOBAL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
BY PHILIPPA JONES
THE NUMBER of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the skies above Europe is increasing rapidly, but safety concerns mean they normally remain segregated from other airspace users, inhibiting their employment in a wide range of activities. Eurocontrol, the European organisation for the safety of air navigation, has therefore launched a major project of work intended to ensure the safe and efficient integration of UAS into the pan-European Air Traffic Management Network (ATM).…
CLOTHING AND TEXTILE SUBSIDIES - UNDER PRESSURE, BUT STILL AVAILABLE
BY ALAN OSBORN, LUCY JONES and KEITH NUTHALL
INTRODUCTION
CLOTHING and textile production and trade subsidies are under pressure today, as they have not been for many years. There has been a steady trend towards liberalisation in the sector worldwide, stemming from the abolition of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) in January 2005 and with it, then end of restrictive quotas for imports for the WTO’s 152 member countries.…
BIOFUELS POSE RISK TO BIO-BASED OILS AND FATS TREND IN COSMETICS SECTOR
BY MARK ROWE
FOR the past 10 years, the message from the environmental movement has been "biofuels good, fossil fuels bad". And the search for alternatives has exercised many industries, not least the cosmetics sector, which widely uses mineral oils, but has increasingly been looking for ways to use bio-based oils and fats.…
WHERE IS THE BEST CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH FOR THE TEXTILE AND CLOTHING SECTOR?
BY LEE ADENDORFF, in Lucca, Italy; PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris; DOMINIQUE PATTON, in Beijing; KARRYN CARTELLE, in Tokyo; and LUCY JONES, in Dallas
Where is the best cutting edge research for the textile and clothing industry? Which are the best design schools, the best fabric developers and the best industrial innovators in the sector?…
EUROPE: European digital library still on track after launch flop
By Alan Osborn
It lasted less than a day and it ended in apparent humiliation but believe it or not the launch of the European digital library Europeana has been hailed as a success story. The site collapsed on 20th November because the servers couldn’t cope with the torrent of demand but all being well it will be back before Christmas "bigger and better than ever" according to a spokesman for the European commission which is behind the idea.…
OIL INDUSTRY KEEPS MAKING PROFITS IN SRI LANKA, DESPITE CIVIL WAR
BY MUNZA MUSHTAQ
DOING business in a country wracked by civil war is never easy, and involves extra cost, but with care and good management, oil and gas companies can still turn profits in such circumstances. Sri Lanka is a good case in point: multinationals Shell, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Chevron Lubricants are trading successfully in this country, even as its government’s armed conflict with Tamil Tiger separatists reaches an expected military climax.…
EUROPEAN DIGITAL LIBRARY OFFLINE UNTIL DECEMBER AS TECHNICIANS EXPAND SERVER CAPACITY
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE LONG-AWAITED European digital library Europeana was launched last Thursday (November 20) but you had to be quick off the mark to learn anything from it: within hours the site had to be closed after its on-line servers proved unable to cope with the volume of demand.…
SYNTHETIC FUELS TO SHAPE FUTURE BIOFUEL SECTOR
BY MARK ROWE
THE FUTURE of the oils and fats sector globally may be shaped in the coming years by the emergence of synthetic biology, which is enabling scientists to create oils and fats with enhanced properties.
This new technology has been developed in the wake of advances in biofuel manufacture, as the United Nations, major energy companies, scientists and environmental organisations all seek to identify the sources of energy that will sustain a post-oil world.…
EXPLOSIVES DETECTION TECHNOLOGY IN JAPAN STRIDES AHEAD INTO INCREASING SOPHISTICATION
BY GAVIN BLAIR
EXPLOSIVES screening procedures, like most security measures at international airports in Japan, follow the lead of the United States’ Transportation Security Administration (TSA). However, airport operators are somewhat less than satisfied with the performance of the current generation of certified explosive detection systems (EDS) or explosive trace detection systems (ETD).…