MEPs’ plans to tighten up single market product safety rules and market surveillance include mandatory "made-in" labelling to improve the traceability of non-food goods, a sharper focus on goods that appeal to kids, an EU blacklist of ...
Tags: safety rules, Product Safety
Textile and clothing exports from Spain amounted to €1.07 billion in February 2014, registering a rise of 10.4 percent, compared to the same month last year, as per the data released by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and ...
Consumer goods manufacturer Henkel and Ball have joined forces to introduce a new, lighter weight sustainable aluminum aerosol can for the beauty care brand, Fa. The recyclable extruded aluminum can has been manufactured using metal ...
Tags: Henkel, Aerosol Can
The Adidas Group published its 2013 Sustainability Progress Report, an annual overview of achievements and challenges as well as a progress update on its 2015 sustainability targets. As part of the report, the Adidas Group announced that ...
Tags: Adidas, Sporting Goods, Recreation
Woolworths breached ACCC undertakings, Federal Court finds The Federal Court of Australia has today found supermarket giant Woolworths breached an undertaking on fuel shopper dockets, but that its rival Coles did not break the agreement. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Australia's Antidumping Commission has announced that it has initiated an antidumping (AD) investigation against imports of hot rolled wire rod in coils with a diameter of less than 14 mm from Indonesia, Taiwan and Turkey, upon the ...
Netherlands-based bakery products producer Daelmans Group has bought Fabulous Bakin' Boys, a baked goods manufacturer based in Oxfordshire, England. The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Fabulous Bakin' Boys ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
In February this year, seasonally-adjusted industrial production increased by 0.2 percent in the euro area and rose by 0.4 percent in the EU-28 as compared with January, while industrial production in January had remained unchanged in the ...
Tags: Industrial Output, EU-28
The Australasian Railway Association (ARA) has welcomed the announcement of a Melbourne Airport Rail Link by the Victorian Government, believing the new line would ease the city's rising congestion issues and drastically improve the traffic ...
Tags: Airport, Construction
About Inmetro National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology (Inmetro) was created by law in December, 1973, to support t Brazilian enterprises, to increase their productivity and the quality of goods and services. ...
The main objective of the Quality Department of Inmetro is to provide companies of the productive sector, the regulating bodies and the consumers of Conformity Assessment programs, the rules and technical regulations, aiming to seek the ...
The most recent Inmetro poll carried out by Brazil´s major opinion poll agency - the “Ibope”, confirmed that Inmetro´s prestige among the Brazilian population is on the rise, especially on what concerns the evolution ...
The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry rose 1.2 percent in February from January, rising after two consecutive monthly declines, according to the US Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Transportation, Freight Transportation
Brazil's national statistics agency (IBGE) has reported that in February this year industrial production in the largest Latin American country increased by 0.4 percent compared to January and was up five percent from February 2013. In ...
Tags: Basic Metal
China's producer price index (PPI) decreased by 2.3 percent year on year and was down 0.3 percent month on month, according to data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on April 11. Meanwhile, in March Chinese industrial ...