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UK HOPES THAT AMERICAN EXPORT SALES MAY REPLACE EUROPEAN SALES POST-BREXIT MAYBE FALSE
BRITISH automakers who may be eying lucrative American markets as an alternative to sales that could be lost if the UK quits the European Union (EU) as planned next March (2019) could be disappointed, say experts.
This is despite data released by the UK’s Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders (SMMT) at the end of January indicating exports of UK-made cars to the US rose by 7% year-on-year in 2017 to almost 210,000 units.…
COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS ESSENTIAL BEFORE MAKING ADAS MANDATORY, SAY EXPERTS
AUTOMATIC driver assistance systems (ADAS) for vehicles should only be obligatory if they aid road safety, automobile experts told wardsauto this week, as the issue is considered during an ongoing review of European Union (EU) automobile safety rules.
The EU’s executive body, the European Commission, is currently revising the 28 country bloc’s regulation on type-approval requirements for the general safety of motor vehicles (EC No 661/2009).…
AVIATION TEXTILES QUALITY CONTROLLED BY REGULATION
THE CIVIL aviation industry – for very good safety reasons – is one of the most regulated industries in the world. And suppliers of aviation textiles have to take note. Regulations spring from the Convention on International Civil Aviation, whose annex 8 covers the airworthiness of aircraft.…
NORWAY SHOWS HOW LONG-TERM STATE COMMITMENT TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES CAN CREATE A SUSTAINABLE MARKET
IF evidence was needed to show that consistent government support for sales of electric cars can create a sustainable market, look no further than Norway, the world’s number one country for sales of e-vehicles in 2016. With a market share of 29% for new cars, the Scandinavian country is a leading light in its transition to zero emission cars, noted the Norwegian Electric Vehicles Association (Norsk elbilforening).…
SPECIALIST CHEMICALS SECTOR IS GLOBAL GROWTH AREA, AS DEMAND FOR SMART MATERIALS GROWS
THE GLOBAL speciality chemical market has been showing steady gains over the past few years and is set to continue in its growth trajectory, according to latest data. According to data from Pune, India-based global research company Allied Market Research, the global industry was worth USD175.4 billion in 2014 and has since shown promising growth to USD184 billion in 2015, USD193 billion in 2016 and USD202.5 billion in 2017.…
ISRAEL IS STEADY IMPORT MARKET FOR EUROPEAN PAINT MAJORS
IMPORTS of paints and coatings into the relatively developed Middle East market of Israel are significant and have been growing, according to data sent to Polymers Paint Colour Journal by European Union statistical agency Eurostat.
In 2015, Israel imported EUR42.12 million worth of paints and varnishes (including enamels and lacquers) based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in a non-aqueous medium, from the EU compared to EUR38.75 million worth of imports in 2014.…
NONWOVEN RESEARCHERS LOOK TO PROVIDE CLEANER AIR IN CARS, WHILE REDUCING EXHAUST EMISSIONS
THE AUTOMOTIVE sector is a hotbed of growth for industrial performance materials like nonwovens. And the global market for such materials have the potential to cross the EUR2 billion mark soon, according to Germany-based Freudenberg Performance Materials Holding SE & Co KG.…
PRESSURE GROWS ON GOVERNMENTS TO INTEGRATE LIVESTOCK WITHIN PARIS AGREEMENT-RELATED CLIMATE POLICIES
GOVERNMENTS are starting to develop anti-methane emission policies that could impact the meat and livestock industry as part of their response to the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change. World leaders who participated at November’s COP23 (conference of parties) climate summit in Bonn, Germany, were advised by a key investor group to reduce livestock methane if greenhouse gas emissions are to be tackled effectively.…
EUROPEAN CAR MANUFACTURERS WELCOME AGREEMENT ON TYPE-APPROVAL RULES
THE EUROPEAN car industry has welcomed a deal struck over future European Union (EU) automobile type approval rules between the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers. The agreement reached on Thursday (December 7) on a reformed system for approving vehicles before they are placed on the EU market should see the new rules applying from September 1, 2020.…
EUROPEAN AUTO SECTOR WARNS BRUSSELS’ LATEST CO2 GOALS MAYBE TOO AMBITIOUS
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) auto sector, including – for now – the British industry, has criticised new tough targets proposed by the European Commission for lowering average CO2 emissions from new passenger cars and vans in the 28-country bloc. Under Brussels’ new low emission mobility strategy, cars and vans registered in the EU in 2025 will have to emit 15% and in 2030, 30%, less CO2, compared to 2021’s 95g CO2/km for passenger cars and 147g CO2/km for vans.…