Not long ago, Tridonic announced that it is preparing to introduce a new line of LED drivers, and it will end the magnetics business supporting legacy light sources at the end of 2013. As the pace of the transition to LED-based ...
Tags: LED drivers, Lighting
Europe's top court ruled Thursday that it is legal for countries to impose a levy on printer manufacturers in order to compensate rights holders for unauthorized reproduction of their work. Under European Union law, authors and other ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
The demand made by the European Union (EU) to reduce import duty levied on European wine by the Indian government is sending jitters through the domestic wine industry. The Indian Grape Processing Board (IGPB) fears a cut in the duty would ...
Tags: Wine Industry, Import Duty
The European Union (EU) has imposed a tentative anti-dumping tariff of 11.8% on solar products imported from China and is negotiating with the China government. If both sides reach a settlement, China-based makers will have to hike product ...
Tags: Solar Products, Solar Industry, EU Duty
The European Union is set to impose a levy printers and printer consumerables after a ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The judgement follows a case in the German Court of Justice in which publisher VG Wort took action ...
Tags: Printers, Printer Ink
Bangladesh's export potential to the European Union has not been fully tapped though the country gets very good market access, Ambassador William Hanna, Head of the EU Delegation in Dhaka, has said. Inaugurating a two-day workshop on ...
Tags: Apparel
A new European guide aimed at avoiding IT vendor lock-in could save the public sector more than$1.3 billion a year. The policy,announced by the European Commission Tuesday,involves using open standards rather than vendor-specific ...
Tags: Vendor, public sector, open standards, tendering procedures
Earlier this year, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province promulgated "Suggestions to Accelerate the Development of LED Semiconductor Lighting Industry", which put forward to accelerate the development of LED industry to achieve the sales revenue more ...
Tags: Jiaxing, Great Growth, LED Exports, the First Five Months
Technip was awarded by Forest BtL Oy a contract, worth approximately €5 million, for the front-end engineering and design (FEED) of a new second generation biomass-to-liquid (BTL) plant to be built on Ajos island, Finland. This ...
Tags: Naphtha Plant, Technip, Textile
Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, completed Phase 2 of REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of Chemicals) on 31 May with the registration of 255 different chemical substances. These include 155 ...
Tags: Switzerland, Clariant, Chemicals
Pharmaceutical packaging requires high attention to detail due to the critical nature of the materials required to protect the active product throughout its shelf life. Types of packaging material and design can also be influenced by the ...
Tags: Pharmaceutical Packaging, Packaging, Packaging Machinery
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) is set to evaluate the use of phytosterol esters in margarines, for cooking and baking purposes. According to the FSA, Unilever has applied to the agency to market phytosterol esters as a novel food ...
Tags: Phytosterol Esters, Margarines
Chinese photovoltaic (PV) firms transfer production capacity overseas in succession in a bid to reduce impact delivered by anti-dumping tax imposed on their exports. Comtec Solar Systems Group Ltd. (SEHK: 0712), a Shanghai-based PV ...
Tags: PV, Electronic
A global alliance has been formed between the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Import & Export of Medicines & Health Products (CCCMHPIE) and blue inspection body, the German Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) third party auditor, for drug ...
Tags: Chinese drug, Medicine
India is considering to lower customs duties on wines and spirits bought from the European Union to 40% from the current 150% under a bilateral free trade agreement being negotiated between the two. The offer by Commerce and Industry ...
Tags: Customs Duties, Wines