The report includes data about production, consumption and the trade of pulp, paper and raw materials, as well as data on energy and environment. CEPI members produced 91.1 million tonnes of paper and board in 2013. This is a decrease ...
Project MarineClean was launched in December 2011 in Eastern Europe as a three year project. It is nearing completion. The 1.1 million Euro undertaking aims to decrease marine litter, one of the major ecological threats, in four areas of ...
Back in 2010, the European Union's Ad-Hoc Working Group on Defining Critical Raw Materials published its first criticality analysis for raw materials. Its goal was fairly simple: to define the raw materials critical to the EU’s ...
Tags: Tantalum, Raw Materials
The recycling of beverage cartons in Europe has reached 42% in 2013, according to new data provided by the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE). Compared to 2012, it represents a 3% rise, while the total recovery rate, ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, beverage cartons
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
Children eating Mediterranean Diet high in fruit, nuts, vegetables and fish are 15 per cent less likely to be overweight, study Children eating more in line with the rules of the Mediterranean diet are 15 per cent less likely to be ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Sea Food
According to first estimates released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in April this year the seasonally-adjusted production of the construction sector in the European Union member states (EU-28) increased by ...
Global crude steel production in May this year increased by 2.2 percent year on year to 141.18 million metric tons, while a 3.34 percent rise was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association (worldsteel). In ...
Tags: crude steel, steel production
In the first five months of this year, world pig iron production amounted to 493.64 million mt, rising by 1.22 percent compared to the same period of 2013, according to the preliminary data covering 38 countries accounting for approximately ...
Tags: Pig Iron, pig iron production
According to EnergyTrend, Taiwan-based solar cell makers' capacity utilization has dropped recently because of countervailing duty (CVD) and anti-dumping duty (AD) issues. However, it is rumored that some makers plan to expand their module ...
Tags: PV Module, solar cell, module capacity
Robert Ehrlich, founder of Pirate's Booty, does it again. After running Robert's American Gourmet until 2013, the very company he founded, Rob continues to create trendy and relevant snacks. His latest success is Bodacious Banana, rich in ...
Tags: Anti-Aging Popcorn, SexyPop
In what can be termed as growing interest by Korean companies in investing in the textile and apparel sector in Vietnam, a new fibre manufacturing plant with Korean investment has been launched this month in Vietnam’s southern ...
Tags: Textile Sector, apparel sector
Setting an EU goal to improve energy efficiency by 30% by 2030 would help cut natural gas use by 115 billion cubic meters/year and gas imports by 90 Bcm/year by 2030, compared with business as usual, according to draft European Commission ...
Tags: Gas Use, EU legislation
Northwest European dioctyl phthalate (DOP) spot prices have fallen below feedstock 2-ethylhexanol (2-EH) prices for the first time since January 19, 2012, according to Platts data. DOP spot prices were assessed at Eur1,360/mt FD NWE on ...
Tags: dioctyl phthalate, DOP
The Asia to Europe arbitrage window for methanol will remain shut in the third quarter of 2014 on expectations of higher export volumes from the Middle East and stronger Chinese demand that would soak up Asian supplies, sources said late ...
Tags: Methanol, natural gas