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BY EMMA JACKSON

PAINT companies looking for an edge as they recover from the global financial crisis may find a solution in the form of robotics. Cost effective, efficient and consistent, robots are increasingly pushing out the humans who have traditionally helped manufacture paint and coatings or applied it to products such as cars and machinery.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE SMARTER the authorities become at tackling money laundering via wire transfers and other electronic methodologies, the greater the attraction of physical cash as a means of secretly moving illicit money – or so one would suppose. Commonsense dictates that such a money laundering trend is ongoing at the moment, but nobody can be quite sure about the extent or the cause of it, not even those at the very top of the AML sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS a new European Union (EU) energy Commissioner takes office for the next five years, EU member states are stalling over a plan to inject Euro 50 billion into European energy research budgets over the next decade. The Strategic Energy Technology (SET) plan released by the previous European Commission last October would involve a massive expansion of such spending from 2013 to 2019, but national governments have signalled nervousness.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NEW European Union (EU) energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger has been installed for five years, along with his environment Commissioner Janez Poto?nik and climate action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard. And so utilities executives might be forgiven for thinking that the key political changes in Brussels have now been made regarding the appointment of a new European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A MAJOR effort of public intervention to pump-prime European demand for electric vehicles has been given broad approval by an informal meeting of the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers. It backed a paper tabled by the Spanish government, which currently holds the European Union’s (EU) six month rotating presidency.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AFTER the disappointment of the Copenhagen summit on climate change, it is perhaps encouraging to note that the auto industry – so often painted as the bad boy of the climate change issue – really is reducing its vehicles’ carbon dioxide emissions.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, PACIFICA GODDARD, GAVIN BLAIR and KEITH NUTHALL

NEW technologies devour new resources and the move towards hybrid and electric vehicles could make some currently impoverished countries rich. As the world moves away from fossil fuels, the soft metal lithium will become increasingly in demand as a critical component of auto batteries for green cars.…

BY PHILIPPA JONES

WITH so much competition in design and price within the apparel and textile sector, manufacturers are always looking for an edge. One way in which they can steal a march on competitors is with fibre innovation. And with new technology allowing the incorporation of increasingly complex arrays of chemicals and particles, even on the nano-scale, the opportunities to develop a revolutionary new fibre or mix of fibres are maybe greater today than ever before.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CO2 emitted by European Union (EU) cars is falling fast, according to the latest data from the European Commission. Looking at 2008, a report out this week said that the average specific CO2 emissions from passenger cars were 153.5g CO2/km.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ITALIAN politician nominated to become the European Union’s (EU) new industry commissioner Antonio Tajani has said he is ready to fight cheap Chinese auto exports by promoting quality and investment, especially on pollution and safety.

Speaking at a European Parliament confirmation hearing last night (Jan 18) in Strasbourg, France, he said: "We cannot compete if the Chinese are able to, really, take the bottom out of the market.…