In the first six months of the current year, Ukrainian ferroalloy exports increased by 38.1 percent year on year to 465,271 mt, worth a total of $586.018 million, up 33.5 percent year on year, according to the data issued by Ukraine's ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Ferroalloy
Recycling and preparing for reuse of packaging waste is to be increased to 80% (by weight) by 2030 with individual materials? required to recycle more. Paper, ferrous metal, aluminium and glass have been set a 90% target while plastic ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Paper Recycling
The UK government has excluded small retailers from the proposed 5p carrier bag charge, which will come into force in England in October 2015. Government noted that its proposals for England only apply to plastic bags. The cross-party ...
Tags: Plastic Bag, carrier bag
Sri Lanka based car manufacturer Micro Cars has opened a new facility that assembles SsangYong vehicles following a renovation project on the site. Located in the Board of Investment export processing zone, approximately 67km away from ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Accessories
The European Union (EU) is set to make changes to 'best before' labels for items such as rice, pasta and coffee, as the labels are found to be inappropriate for such food stuffs. Blaming the labeling for food that is being wasted, ...
Tags: Labeling Dates, best Before
The European Union (EU) may scrap mandatory ‘best-before’ dates on long life foods after several member countries blamed the labelling for millions of tons of food being wasted every year. EU agriculture ministers discussed a ...
Tags: Long Life Foods, agriculture
In the January- April period of this year, Ukraine's production of iron ore rose by 0.4 percent year on year to 27.772 million mt, iron ore concentrate production went up by one percent year on year to 23.122 million mt, but the output of ...
Tags: Iron Ore, ore mining
The UK Government has blocked the European Union (EU) proposals compelling retailers to introduce labels on meat informing whether prior to slaughtering, the animal had been stunned. In June 2010, the European parliament approved the ...
Tags: EU Proposals, Halal Meat
South Korea will seek to import more shale gas-based LNG from North America to meet rising power demand amid tighter environmental regulations, the deputy energy minister told Platts Friday. "Natural gas as a source of power generation ...
Tags: Shale Gasc, LNG
LNG volumes coming on stream from countries including the US and Australia in the next few years could lead to a progressive convergence of global gas prices and more LNG imports into Europe as well as the Far East, US Energy Secretary ...
Tags: LNG Exports, LNG market
In the first four months of the current year, Ukraine registered an 8.5 percent decrease in its finished steel product output to 8.983 million mt, an 8.8 percent decrease in its crude steel output to 10.087 million mt, and a 2.7 percent ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
American automaker Ford Motor has temporarily suspended operations in Venezuela over lack of foreign currency to import automobile parts for assembly. Companies in Venezuela pay local bolivars to state currency board Cencoez, in order to ...
Tags: Ford, Ford Motor, automaker
The European Commission (EC) has confirmed disbursement of €840,000 from the European Globalization Adjustment Fund (EGF) to help 300 workers made redundant in the textile sector of the Spanish autonomous community of Valencia to find ...
Tags: Textile
The Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Government of Germany, will be holding the first Round Table on the Textiles Industry, and BMZ Minister Gerd Müller has invited participation of representatives of textile ...
Tags: Textiles
The IAF was invited to be present at a Ministerial meeting of the Dutch Trade and Development Minister, Lilianne Ploumen, with her French counterpart, Minister Nicole Bricq. The meeting, held in Paris, produced a common statement by ...
Tags: Apparel Sector, IAF&OECD