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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A KEY advisory body within the European Union (EU) has warned that UK and other European dealers may have to import more cars in future from Asia, north America and elsewhere, because it fears the recession may cause structural under-capacity amongst EU manufacturers.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

TURKEY is ramping up car safety inspections as part of its bid to join the European Union (EU). Last year, Turkey hired a consortium made up of a German inspection firm TUV-Sud; Turkish car importer and distributor Dogus Automotive; and Akfen, a Turkish construction company, to independently inspect motor vehicles.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A NEW German-Italian joint venture making carbon-ceramic brake discs and systems has been launched, following the granting of competition approval by the European Commission. The deal will involve a 50-50 merger of SGL Carbon SE, of Germany, and Brembo SpA, of Italy.…

BY MARK ROWE, in London; KARRYN CARTELLE, in TOKYO; RUSSELL BERMAN, in Washington DC; and MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

INNOVATION in drinks packaging is more intense today than it has been for decades, with cutting edge innovation in intelligent materials, microchip integration and nanomaterials allowing designers to create boxes, bottles, cans and sacks that they could not dream of before.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BRITISH tyre industry is pushing for a planned European tyre labelling system to be amended so that useful point-of-sale information about safety and noise is made available in showrooms. The problem with the current proposals approved by the European Parliament last week (22-04) is it focuses on labelling, said John Dorken, the chief executive of the British Tyre Manufacturers Association.…

BY RUSSELL BERMAN

WITH the auto industry in the United States and Europe in the midst of an unprecedented downturn, the international paints and coatings sector has taken a deep hit as well and has been forced to turn to painful strategies in the hopes of riding out the recession.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, LEAH GERMAIN and MONICA DOBIE

MAYBE the best sign that renewable energies have hit the mainstream is that they now have their very own international organisation: the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Launched in Bonn, Germany, this January, with the support of 76 countries, including its host nation, Spain, Italy, France and Sweden, the roster of signatory nations has since been swollen by India and Belarus.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A ’50 by 50′ Global Fuel Economy Initiative launched by the UN Environment Programme, the International Energy Agency, the International Transport Forum and the FIA Foundation aims to promote hybrids and electric cars.

It details blueprints on establishing a global car fleet consuming 50% less fuel by 2050 than today, stabilising its greenhouse gas emissions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE RETAIL Motor Industry Federation (RMIF) has welcomed the approval of a new European Union (EU) directive that will promote the sale of clean and energy-efficient road transport vehicles to public authorities and utilities.

The new law says these key auto sector customers must choose from two options for greening their fleets when buying new vehicles through compulsory competitive tenders:

*They can set minimum technical specifications for energy and environmental performance; and

*They can include energy and environmental impacts in the actual purchasing decision by writing these considerations into criteria for bids by suppliers, alongside sticker price costs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPE’S auto sector has today been promised another cash injection from the European Investment Bank (EIB), which has emerged as the European Union’s (EU) key weapon to help the sector stave off the recession.

The EU-run financing institution’s board of directors today (Tuesday) approved loans to Europe-based car makers worth Euro 866 million to help them design and build cleaner cars with lower CO2 emissions.…