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The number of companies producing spent bleaching earth oil (SBEO) as a biofuel feedstock has been increasing, but despite the opportunities that new regulations and technologies offer, logistics, the lack of feedstock and costs remain major challenges.

That utilising bleaching earths and clays is a good idea is clear.…

The Myanmar clothing and textile industry is facing increasing labour shortages, as workers flee the country or hide at home, to avoid being conscripted into an army that has been losing its grip over large swaths of the country amidst the ongoing civil war (1).…

Food innovation centres (FICs) have become a feature of the global food production landscape over the past few decades and now play a significant role in the research and development of edible products.

The first purpose built FICs started to appear in the final quarter of the 20th century, with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the US’s Midwest Corn Belt, an early mover in this field, opening its Food Processing Center in 1983 (1).…

The only university of the self-declared Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, or Western Sahara, continues to teach and graduate students, despite the military stalemate that has persisted before and since its founding in 2012, which has left Morocco controlling 80% of the territory.…

Despite its size, Australia’s wool sector is having to pay attention to animal welfare concerns among increasingly ethical consumers – and as a result, the practice of mulesing poses growing risk for sales. The country supplies 22.1% of the world’s clean wool and 70% apparel wool globally according to the latest 2023 annual report from the Sydney-based Sheep Sustainability Framework.…

Treasury experts have gathered in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh, for an important briefing staged by the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT), where speakers explored the importance of sharpening financial management as the kingdom diversifies its strong economy.

Senior financial executives from the kingdom and across the Gulf region heard on February 26 from speakers highlighting key strategies on how to respond to the Saudi government’s Saudi Vision 2030 development and its impact on broad-based economic growth.…

US tobacco growers are facing tough times as labour costs rise, and American cigarette consumption continues to shrink.

In 2023, tobacco production in the US amounted to 432.45 million lb (pounds) (196.1kg), a 3.3% decline from the 447.4 lb (202.9 kg) produced the previous year and continuing a long-term downward trend, Fiona Dyer, lead analyst for tobacco at UK-based data analytics and consulting company GlobalData, told TJI.…

Psychologists and academics have long tried to identify the personality types and disorders common among fraudsters, in part to aid their detection, or prevent people prone to deceit from having access to money and confidential information.

While fraudsters span all kinds of personality types, papers continue to be released, indicating that many high-profile fraudsters have personality traits identified as psychological red flags by experts.…

The stark differences in higher education capacity between richer and less developed countries was highlighted at the International Association of University Presidents’ (IAUP) latest semi-annual meeting. Staged at Nottingham Trent University, in England’s East Midlands on Friday (March 8), delegates heard how in Uganda, with a population of 47.2 million (World Bank data for 2022), there are only 60 higher education institutions, of which only 20 meet international standards.…

While the Baltic States’ metal can industry relies largely on imported packaging, the two industries which routinely utilise local production are the beverage (specifically beer), and canned fish industry. While there were far more production facilities today within independent Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania than when these countries were part of the Soviet Union until 1991, the sector has been declining.…