The European Commission, which is in the final stages of a review of the current European Union (EU) organic legislation, has decided that the legal basis of its organic regulation would not be extended to cover the textiles sector. ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Organic Regulation
Nelson Laboratories, a provider of full, life-cycle microbiology testing services, has received the European Union's Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) Compliance Certificate for its laboratory’s facilities and processes after the ...
The European industrial initiative EU ProSun has announced that it will take action before the EU General Court against the agreement that has been reached in the trade dispute over dumped solar panels from China. Milan Nitzschke, ...
Tags: Solar Industry, solar panels
The European Union's (EU) anti-dumping tariffs are spurring an increase in prices for China-made solar modules, marking the end of a period when available inexpensive photovoltaic (PV) devices enabled fast growth of installations in the ...
Tags: Solar Modules, Lighting
Steinhoff International announced the takeover of the Kika/Leiner Group at the end of June. Steinhoff reports that the relevant contracts have already been signed. Dr Herbert Koch, chairman of Kika/Leiner's supervisory board, also confirmed ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Renewable packaging material provider BillerudKorsnas has received approval from the EU Commission with regard to its proposed divestment of kraft and sack paper producing machine (PM2) to SwedPaper. According to BillerudKorsnas, the ...
Tags: Billerudkorsnas, Paper Machine
Recently, the Eco-design Directive Regulations Committee of EU Commission has conducted a discussion on the bill about the directional lights and all LED lights and related equipments; a related ErP Directive has been newly added on the ...
Tags: ERP Instruction, LED Lamps
On 24 May the Directorate-General for Competition of the EU Commission approved the planned merger of the Label & Processing business division of Ahlstrom with Munksj? AB with the restriction that the Ahlstrom activities in the areas of ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Ahlstrom, a global high performance fiber-based materials company, announces that the demerger of Ahlstrom's Label and Processing business in Europe (LP Europe) has been registered with the Finnish Trade Register. A total of 11,597,326 new ...
Tags: Ahlstrom, LP Europe Demerger
On 23 April, the EU Commission‘s competition authorities approved the takeover of Spano by Unilin, which is owned by the US-American company Mohawk. The approval under cartel law had already been granted following the provisional ...
Tags: EU Commission, Construction
The Norwegian Competition authority has approved Orkla's purchase of 90.11% of the shares in food firm Rieber & Son. The acquisition is expected to be completed within a week. The approval of the Norwegian competition authorities ...
Tags: Norway Competition
Audi’s LED headlights are reported to be recognized by The European Union as an energy efficient technology that can help cars reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions. According to a press release from Audi (media ...
Tags: LED Headlights, LED, Headlights
The garment manufacturers of Pakistan are pinning hope on the approval of the European Union’s Generalized System of Preference Plus (GSP Plus) status to their country by the EU Commission at Brussels. According to the industry ...
Tags: Garment Makers, Garment, Apparel
The Directorate-General for Competition of the EU Commission has once again extended the deadline for the more detailed investigation (phase II investigation) of the planned merger of Munksj with the label & processing division of Ahlstrom. ...
The European Commission has today presented a package of initiatives to make trademark registration systems all over the European Union cheaper, quicker, more reliable and predictable. The proposed reform would improve conditions for ...