Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany has announced that its president and chief executive officer Paul Hyland will leave the firm by mutual agreement with effect from 28 February 2013, for personal reasons. Martin ...
The European Commission has announced that it has initiated an antidumping (AD) duty investigation regarding imports of seamless pipes and tubes of iron or steel, of an external diameter exceeding 406.4 mm, from China. The application was ...
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The Paint Research Association (PRA) has developed a food packaging coating product which can replace existing packaging coatings based on petrochemicals that are harmful for the environment. The new eco-friendly food packaging coating ...
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Paterson made his comments after an EU crisis meeting in Brussels, which took place yesterday (13 February). In a statement on the horse meat scandal, Paterson said: “Because of the urgency with which we have to deal what is clearly ...
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The European Commission and the European Medicines Agency have issued orphan drug designation to PROLOR Biotech's hGH-CTP. The longer-acting version of human growth hormone, hGH-CTP, is being developed to treat growth hormone deficiency. ...
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The European Commission has called on the EU's 27 members states to test for horse DNA in beef products. Tonio Borg, Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, has set out plans for tests to be carried out to see if food containing beef ...
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Just a few weeks ago, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other partners launched the Think.Eat.Save. Reduce Your Foodprint campaign in support of the SAVE FOOD Initiative to reduce food loss ...
Tags: Sustainability, Packaging, Tackle Waste
The Grundfos-initiative Act NOW has become an independent, ‘non-profit’ organisation with 11 equal partners, who wishes to create awareness about energy-efficient solutions. Recently, Act NOW has united its forces with the ...
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The growth in cloud computing is a double-edged sword, Europe’s top cyber security agency warned on Thursday. The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) published a new report on the cloud from the perspective of ...
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An industry group called the Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace (ICOMP) has claimed that Google's dominant position in online search and advertising was generated as a result of a "broad-ranging and illegal network of ...
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has suspended operations at two meat processing facilities in the UK over claims that both the firms have sold horsemeat labeled as beef for kebabs and burgers. The FSA raided both the premises, Peter Boddy ...
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The European Commission (EC) has terminated the antidumping (AD) investigation regarding certain welded tubes, pipes and hollow profiles of square or rectangular cross-section, of iron other than cast iron or steel other than stainless, ...
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The European Commission (EC) has held a roundtable meeting today, February 12, attended by representatives from 13 steel producing member states and the European Parliament, regarding the EC's plan to deliver an action plan by June to ...
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The European Commission has published an expiry notice for the antidumping duties on steel and iron tube and pipe fittings from South Korea and Malaysia. Unless a review is initiated with the request by the relevant parties, the antidumping ...
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An EU-funded research project has created a system for higher broadband speeds that could be able to connect to many different devices in the home. Researchers on the HOME Gigabit Access (OMEGA) project have managed to develop a network ...
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