A number of tobacco firms (including Philip Morris, British American Tobacco (BAT) and Imperial Tobacco) formed a coalition to oppose the new EU packaging rules, and the UK’s High Court has referred the case to the EU’s Court of ...
Tags: EU packaging, Packaging Rules
The Canadian Trucking Alliance asked politicians on Parliament Hill, who are looking into the safe transportation of goods by road, to consider a universal electronic logging device (ELD) mandate among other things. Incidents involving ...
Tags: electronic logging device, ELD
Format-wise, the Obama Administration's policies in the Ukraine crisis appear to have troubles in two aspects: the rebalance to the Asia-Pacific and containment of Russia. First, national strength in the United States is falling short of ...
Tags: Service, Economy Cooperation, Opinion
Novatec Solar and BASF have successfully commissioned a solar thermal demonstration plant based on a new type of molten salt technology, known as direct molten salt or DMS technology. The plant is located on the site of the solar-thermal ...
Tags: Novatec Solar, BASF, molten salt, DMS technology
The Australian Trucking Association would like to help you recognise your exceptional staff during TruckWeek, with free award certificates now being sent to businesses who have registered an award ceremony on the TruckWeek website. The ...
The Government of India is considering the idea of linking handloom fabric weaving with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) to protect the interest of the weavers, Minister of State for Textiles Santosh Kumar ...
Tags: Govt, Apparel, Accessories
The proposals in the Central Budget 2014-15 presented to the Parliament by the Hon’ble Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley are a “mixed bag” for the textiles industry according to Confederation of Indian Textile Industry ...
Tags: Budget Proposals, industry, Textile
The proposals in the Central Budget 2014-15 presented to the Parliament by the Hon’ble Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley are a “mixed bag” for the textiles industry according to Confederation of Indian Textile Industry ...
Tags: Budget Proposals, Apparel, Accessories
Renewable packaging material provider BillerudKorsnas has introduced two new paper product families to meet growing demand for paper bags and carriers within the retail and food sectors. The company has introduced the new Xpression and ...
Tags: BillerudKorsnas, product families, Packaging
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
New research published today by the British Retail Consortium finds that 80% of MPs believe the current system of business rates is 'not fit for purpose and in need of fundamental reform'. The poll, which also finds that 93% agree that ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Renewable packaging material provider BillerudKorsns has introduced two new paper product families to meet growing demand for paper bags and carriers within the retail and food sectors. The company has introduced the new Xpression and ...
A proposed free trade agreement between Canada and South Korea would remove the current 3% to 8% tariff that Canadian oil and gas producers have to pay for exports into that Asian nation, a Canadian government spokeswoman said Monday. ...
Tags: LNG Exports, Oil Exports
The Indonesian government reached a deal with lawmakers late Wednesday to revise down its targets for subsidized fuel consumption and crude production in its 2014 budget to make the figures more realistic, officials said. The measure cuts ...
Tags: fuel consumption, crude production