The Chantler Review found it was 'very likely' that unbranded plain packed tobacco would reduce both the uptake and prevalence of smoking. British American Tobacco has strongly hinted at a legal battle, stating: "We believe plain ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Tobacco Packaging
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that Forman Mills Inc., of Pennsauken, N.J., has agreed to pay a $600,000 civil penalty. The penalty agreement has been accepted provisionally by the Commission in a 3-0 ...
According to the Indian government's Press Information Bureau (PIB), iron ore handling has commenced at Mormugao Port in the Indian state of Goa with an iron ore shipment of 70,000 mt destined for China, following the easing of the ban by ...
Colombian coal exports in February fell 44% month on month to 4.067 million mt, which was 15.1% higher year on year, data from statistics agency DANE showed. The fall to the the lowest monthly level since March 2013 came amid a ban on ...
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US miner Drummond restarted coal loadings from its Colombian export terminal late Monday after its environmental restrictions were lifted following a three-month export ban, the company said in a statement. The miner's Colombian ...
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Australia's nickel mine production is set to fall 11% year on year to 215,000 mt in the current 2013-14 fiscal year and refined nickel production to rise 2.2% to 138,000 mt, the country's Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics forecast in ...
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Garment Printing gives every client the chance to choose environmentally friendly garments as well as printing techniques. The range of garments includes the EarthPositive range, which is 100% organic, ethically sourced, and with a low ...
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In 2013, sales of cigarettes rose 0.3% to figure of 21.1bn cigarettes, according to industry data provided by Marlboro maker Philip Morris International and reported in today’s Telegraph. The increase follows four straight years of ...
It's 3am on the first day of 2014. Shanghai's Hengshan Road, an area popular for restaurants and nightclubs, is lit up with what seems like hundreds of bright green taxi lights, inviting the rowdy New Year's crowd to hop in. But the drivers ...
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Fears of China moving to ban the import of lower grade coal have again resurfaced amid concern over the country's high pollution levels, with several market participants indicating that the government is seriously contemplating such a move ...
The People’s Committee of Vietnam’s Nam Dinh province has issued an investment license to China-based Jiangsu Julun Textiles Group Co. Ltd. for constructing a US$ 68 million factory, Vietnam Plus reported. The new textile ...
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With US refineries expanding their capacity to process more domestic light oil in the coming years, the US Energy Information Administration on Tuesday said it expects refinery crude inputs to reach 15.52 million b/d this year and 15.61 ...
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Scientists at the University of East Anglia have identified four new man-made gases in the atmosphere – all of which are contributing to the destruction of the ozone layer. New research published today in the journal Nature ...
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US environmental authorities made a rare move Friday to block a massive copper and gold mine in Alaska before it even gets under way, in a bid to protect wild salmon. The Pebble Mine project has the potential to be one of the biggest open ...
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Lighting shift to slash energy consumption, says IHS 04 Mar 2014 Energy used for general illumination set to plummet by a quarter between now and the end of the decade. Consumption cut: the potential impact of LEDs Analysts at the ...
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