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ASIAN PAINT AND COATING REGULATORY ROUND-UP – CHINA ORIENTATES ELECTRIC VEHICLE AUTO COATINGS RULES TO EU REACH REGIME
China’s Zhongguancun Inspection, Testing and Certification Industry Technology Alliance has released a standard to promote Chinese conformity with European Union’s (EU) REACH chemical control regulation in the automotive industry. The standard proposes REACH-compliant restrictions on REACH-regulated automotive chemicals, including paints and coatings.…
DETAILED AUTOMOTIVE SUSTAINABILITY STANDARDS GAIN IN AUTHORITY AS GOVERNMENTS PREPARE REPORTING REGULATIONS
As regulators in jurisdictions worldwide prepare to pass laws making sustainability reporting mandatory for listed companies, the auto sector will need to reassess detailed environmental and social standards already developed by standard setting bodies.
That is the case for the US-owned and based auto sector, especially foreign companies making autos in the US and American companies with plants overseas.…
EU AND ASIAN AUTOMAKERS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF NEW USA LEASED VEHICLE TAX CREDIT RULES
European and Asian automakers exporting electric vehicles (EV) to the USA are looking to take advantage of US treasury guidance issued December 28 that allows consumers to claim tax credits of up to USD7,500 on leased EVs, even if they are not made in north America.…
CHIP MAKER’S TSMC IS PLANNING EXTRA CAPACITY IN ASIA, WHICH MAY EASE SUPPLY CONCERNS FOR US AUTOMAKERS
An expansion drive by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chip maker, is expected to be helpful for US automakers, increasing supply and decreasing supply chain risks, industry observers believe. TSMC is now building a new facility also in Japan’s Kumamoto Prefecture.…
NEW EU PACKAGING TARGETS TOO CHALLENGING, TOBACCO EXPERTS SAY
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s new proposal for a European Union (EU) packaging and packaging waste regulation (1) is not realistic, European tobacco experts have told Tobacco Journal International (TJI). Their comments come as negotiations begin between the Commission (the EU’s executive), the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers – representing member states – on the draft text.…
INDIA COMBINES TEXTILE MANUFACTURING STRENGTH WITH IT KNOWHOW TO FULFILL PRODUCT PASSPORT REQUIREMENTS
India’s textile sector is working with the country’s strong IT industry and professionals to deliver monitoring and labelling systems that comply with forthcoming digital product passport (DPP) requirements being pioneered especially in the European Union (EU). Its executive, the EU, released plans last March (2022), to pass rules that would insist that products, including textile lines, are released with detailed electronic information demonstrating that their materials sourcing and final manufacture are sustainable.…
FOR CHANGES TO NEW EU PACKAGING CONTROLS
The European Union (EU) food and drink industry is preparing to lobby to improve reforms proposed by the European Commission to EU packaging and packaging waste legislation. Industry association FoodDrinkEurope has said they will “require significant improvements to be workable”. In particular, the association is concerned about mandates within a proposed regulation that food and drink companies ensure growing proportions of their packaging be made refillable or reusable.…
BREXIT DECISION CONTINUES DAMAGING FOR CAN INDUSTRY, SAY EXPERTS
THE UNITED Kingdom’s final exit from the European Union (EU) on December 31, 2020, after an 11-month transition period, has fulfilled predictions of disruption to the British and European can manufacturing industry, experts have told CanTech international. Indeed, feelings over Breit remain raw – one senior industry specialist, preferring to remain nameless, dubbed Brexit as, “the most stupid decision ever taken by UK politicians”.…
DIGITAL TEXTILE PRINTING GAINING GROUND IN VIETNAM
South-east Asia has long appreciated the need to improve efficiency and sustainability in its finishing, especially as it seeks to compete with China, whose rising costs and supply chain disruption caused by Covid-19 has created openings for neighbouring manufacturing hubs.
Vietnam is a case in point, having long been a major textile production centre, and one that is expanding said data from the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS) showing a 12% year-on-year turnover rise in 2022 to USD44 billion.…
FTX COLLAPSE MAY PROMPT CREATION OF GLOBAL CRYPTO-EXCHANGE REGULATION
The collapse of crypto-trading platform FTX and its associated hedge fund Alameda Research may help spark the creation of a global regulatory regime to monitor crypto-currency exchanges. Keith Nuthall reports.
The FTX Group’s November 11 filing for US Chapter 11 bankruptcy sent shockwaves through the global crypto-currency market and should encourage the development of international regulation to control this unstable industry.…