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EU ROUND UP – CEPE WARNS PAINT BIOCIDE LEGALITY AT RISK IN EU
CEPE, the European Council of the Paint, Printing Ink and Artists’ Colours Industry, has warned that an upcoming European Union (EU) toxic chemical law could see biocidal paints banned within the EU. Its concerns have been raised in consultation on a planned chemicals strategy for sustainability that the European Commission is to draft and release by September 30.…
EU ROUND UP - NEW EU TAX LAW DEMANDS DIGITAL SALES PLATFORMS SHARE TRANSACTION DATA
A MAJOR expansion in collecting sales information within the digital economy across the European Union (EU) and beyond has been proposed by the European Commission, to crack down on widescale tax evasion.
The EU executive has proposed reforms to an EU directive on administrative cooperation between tax authorities (see https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/sites/taxation/files/2020_tax_package_dac7_en.pdf)…
INDIAN FOOD MANUFACTURING BRANDS EXPLORE E-COMMERCE HOME DELIVERY NETWORKS, AS COVID-19 ERA SHOPPERS SHUN STORES
Indian packaged food manufacturers are increasingly relying upon online purchased home delivery of their products to compensate for falling demand in physical store retail because of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions imposed since March 24.
Instead, some major food manufacturers have built up home delivery network and boosted online purchases, in many cases through third party ecommerce platforms, but also developing their own delivery networks.…
INDIAN KNITWEAR SECTOR STRUGGLES TO COPE WITH COVID-19 FALLOUT
The Indian knitwear industry, a sector that exported USD7.5 billion’s worth of apparel in the financial year ending March 2020, according to the country’s directorate general of foreign trade, is undergoing severe stress induced by the Covid-19 related lockdown and resulting collapsing demand.…
COVID-19 FUELS EXPANSION IN NONWOVENS AND NONWOVENS PRODUCT MANUFACTURING ACROSS ASIA
THE ASIA nonwovens sector has been reaping the benefits of booming demand for protective medical materials during the Covid-19 crisis. But like the pandemic, this roaring demand will end, and nonwovens producers need to ready to a post-Covid-19 market.
This will mean reining in growth, but as David Price, founding partner of US-based management consultancy specialising in nonwovens Price Hanna Consultants, said, with regional nonwovens sales per person still low in global terms, the “market penetration for disposable and durable nonwovens in southeast Asia and China” is likely to grow regardless.…
EU DAIRY SECTOR FIGHTS THROUGH COVID-19, BUT GATHERING POLITICAL STORM CLOUDS THREATEN INDUSTRY HEALTH
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) dairy sector has been riding out the Covid-19 crisis, despite weak raw milk prices, although looming political challenges regarding the EU budget and Brexit makes its future uncertain.
Pekka Pesonen, secretary general for EU farmers’ federation Copa-Cogeca, warned: “Producer prices have not yet seen an upward trend.”…
SANCTIONS REGIMES TIGHTEN ON SYRIA AS BLOODY CIVIL WAR CONTINUES
As Syria enters its 10th year of civil conflict, the economy is in tatters, foreign currency is in short supply, and sanctions have not only been renewed, the USA has introduced new secondary sanctions. Illicit crime and sanctions busting abounds.
In May (2020), the USA issued further guidance on Syria, while the European Union (EU) extended its sanctions on Syria for a further year, to 1 June 2021.…
EU PAINT AND COATING INDUSTRY OFFERED COVID-19 FINANCIAL LIFELINE BY EUROPEAN COMMISSION PANDEMIC ECONOMIC RECOVERY FUND
CONSTRUCTION projects likely to generate major purchases of paints and coatings are likely to be a focus of a new ‘Next Generation EU’ budget commanding EUR750 billion between 2021 and 2024, financed by borrowing through bond issues against European Union (EU) direct revenues from sources such as import duties.…
AGRI-TEXTILES SECTOR BECOMES MORE SUSTAINABLE IN PRODUCTION AS DEMAND GROWS FOR ITS KEY FOOD PRODUCTION ROLE
If there is one subsector of technical textiles that is regarded as well suited to environment-friendly materials innovation, it is surely the agricultural textile (ag-tex) sector. This is indeed the case, with research and development specialists creating clever solutions allying the functional and sustainability benefits of ag-tex with new biodegradable and naturally-sourced fibre.…
CLOTHING AND TEXTILE FIRMS INNOVATE WITH ANTI-MICROBIAL FABRICS AND PRODUCTS, MEETING DEMAND FUELLED BY COVID-19
TEXTILE and fibre innovators worldwide are seeking to tap growing demand for antimicrobial, virus and bacteria killing fibres and fabrics generated by the Covid-19 pandemic, encouraging clothing and fabric-makers to develop groundbreaking new technology.
Indeed, for companies such as HeiQ Materials AG – a Switzerland based textile innovation specialist – the pandemic has “opened a whole new chapter for the development of antimicrobial surfaces and textiles”, its co-founder and CEO Carlo Centonze told just-style.…