The International Trade Commission (ITC) of the United States ruled Wednesday that an American industry is materially injured by reason of imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from China, paving the way for the U.S. ...
Tags: PV Products, Punitive Duties
The packaging of 500ml cans of Skol Super, a 9% ABV beer produced by Carlsberg UK, have been found to encourage immoderate consumption after a ruling by the Independent Complaints Panel. The ICP considered the product following a ...
PPG Industries reported fourth quarter 2014 net sales from continuing operations of $3.71 billion, up $207 million, or 6 percent, versus the prior-year figure of $3.5 billion. Net sales in local currencies grew 10 percent year-over-year, ...
Tags: portfolio management, earnings-accretive cash deployment, Construction
A new customized, integrated flexo printing solution has been introduced by Denmark-based flexo technology provider TRESU for the detergent industry which will help it to comply with a new European safety directive. The new safety ...
Tags: control system, space-saving printing module, Agriculture
Latest development in design infringement dispute between Magmatic and PMS International. The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has granted Magmatic permission to appeal the Court of Appeal order of April 10th 2014. It’s the ...
Tags: Supreme Court, infringement, Toys
Yingli Green Energy has commented on the final anti-dumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) decisions by the US Department of Commerce regarding the import of solar PV panels assembled in China using components from a third country. ...
Tags: anti-dumping, countervailing duty, Lights
The likelihood of tighter European Union regulations on air emissions being imposed on the European coatings and other industries has been receding as the EU gives top priority to economic growth at a time when many of the region’s ...
Tags: IAQ labelling system, volatile organic compounds, Construction
The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) is actively procuring raw cotton from farmers at minimum support price (MSP) and it has procured approximately 13 lakh bales by November-end at various centres in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and ...
Tags: Raw Cotton, Cotton
The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) has planned to operate 343 procurement centres in 92 districts spread across 11 cotton growing states in the country, during the ongoing cotton season that began on October 1, 2014, Minister of State of ...
The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT of Aachen, Germany has worked with RWTH Aachen University’s Institute of Physics (IA) to develop an analysis technology that, for the first time it is claimed, allows the structural ...
Tags: LED light, Laser system
Hyundai and Kia have agreed to pay $100m fine for exaggerating the gas mileage in 1.2 million vehicles. The ruling came from the US justice department which stated that the vehicles could emit approximately 4.75 million tons of greenhouse ...
In March this year, Indonesia won the right to seek a ruling by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Australia's tobacco plain-packaging laws. The WTO's disputes settlement body agreed to set up an independent panel of trade and legal ...
Tags: Packaging Laws
Cuba, Indonesia, Honduras, Dominican Republic and Ukraine have contested the standardised packaging laws, calling them an illegal restriction on trade, but the panel of judges said there won’t be a WTO ruling until at the first half ...
Tags: Tobacco Pack Laws, packaging
Double Coin Holdings LLC and its American subsidiary, China Manufacturers Alliance LLC (CMA), plan to fight the U.S. Department of Commerce’s preliminary decision to impose a duty of 105% on CMA’s imports of off-the-road (OTR) ...
Tags: Antidumping, AD rate
The opening of the Ghaghoo diamond mine, located in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR), that took place this week was not only a significant milestone for the mine’s owner Gem Diamonds, but also for the country ...
Tags: diamond mine, diamond