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BY KEITH NUTHALL and MARK ROWE

AS auto manufacturers start to realise the utility of incorporating parts and components using nanotechnology to improve their performance, the European Union (EU) is looking hard at special regulations to protect the public and the environment from nanoparticles.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE PHILIPPINES paint market may be small, but it has punched above its weight during the global recession, retaining its distinctive feature of a manufacturing base dominated by local players. According to the Philippine Association of Paint Manufacturers (PAPM), the country has just five major paint manufacturers, with a 70% market share being enjoyed by Pacific Paints (Boysen), followed by other local players Charter Chemical & Coating Corporation and Asian Coatings Philippines, Inc.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and ALYSHAH HASHAM

CANADA – long a difficult jurisdiction for the tobacco sector – became tougher still on July 5, when a national ban on manufacturing and selling most flavoured cigarettes, cigarillos and blunt wraps came into force.…

BY WANG FANGQING

JAPAN’S major rice snack manufacturer Kameda Seika Co.,Ltd will invest Japanese yen JPY1 billion (US dollar USD11.3 million) in China and the USA to boost production for these markets. Niigata City-based Kameda’s spokesman Takumi Yoshida said the investment will help the company become a "global food company".…

BY WANG FANGQING

JAPAN’S leading confectionary manufacturer, Tokyo-based Fujiya Co., Ltd is to build its second plant in China to secure local supply and boost sales. The new plant, located in Hangzhou, near Shanghai, is scheduled to start operating in 2012, manufacturing lollipops for local convenience stores and supermarkets, said Fujiya’s spokesperson Osamu Mizoguchi.…

BY WANG FANGQING

JAPAN’S leading food seasoning manufacturer Ajinomoto Co.,Inc is expanding across Asia and the Middle East. In Jakarta, Indonesia, Ajinomoto is building a new plant at about Japanese yen JPY6 billion (US dollar USD67.7 million), scheduled to start manufacturing food seasonings in 2012.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE PRESENT difficult economic conditions in Europe, north America and Japan are not hugely encouraging for promoting innovation or for the spending of large sums of money on research by drinks manufacturers. It may be a little different for leading brands such as GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Coca-Cola, Pepsi and other big names though even these are changing their approach.…

BY WANG FANGQING

JAPAN’S leading retailer Seven & i Holdings is planning to expand its private label businesses overseas, and China is the first target in 2010. The business will focus on bakeries. The major reason for choosing China is that the company has seen growing concern over food safety in the country, said Asami Chiyoda, spokesman of Seven & i.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FOR growing markets such as electric cars, keeping regulatory standards simple can make or break a new technology. It can also give manufacturers a head start in the race to dominate a new market, if they are located in countries where rules are relatively straightforward and similar to those in other jurisdictions.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

WITHOUT looking, Ryoichi Komaki, 57, reaches out and unerringly selects one out of hundreds of small, glass bottles that are arrayed on shelves around his desk. He unscrews the cap and dips an absorbent strip in the liquid.…