Responses to the Government's Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) consultation show that there is widespread appetite for an overhaul of the existing regulation, to the relief of many within the lighting industry. The ...
Bureau Veritas' Consumer Product Services division (BVCPS) acquired Sargam Laboratory Private Limited (SLPL) in Chennai, India in 2011. The Sargam Laboratory has now been completely integrated with Bureau Veritas Consumer Product Services ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use
Davis was appointed BPF Director-General in October 1997.? Before that he was the chief executive of Incpen from October 1993 – September 1997. He has previously held the following positions: Director of marketing; membership and ...
A Wellford, S.C.-based manufacturer of specialty chemicals for textiles, pulp and paper, consumer, food and beverage, and other applications — has introduced StarSoft BIS 45 reactive silicone softener for finishing 100-percent cotton ...
Tags: Textile
The UK's capacity in power electronics has received an £18m boost from the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) with the opening of the first EPSRC National Centre of Excellence for Power Electronics. As ...
Tags: Power electronics, Electrical, Electronics
The worst month on the stockmarket in a year has taken the wind out of investors, with confidence retreating from highs earlier this year amid increasing concern about the global economy and the endgame for stimulus from central banks. ...
Tags: Stockmarket, May
Cyber-crime incidents that are reported by the press are "just a snapshot" of what is actually happening, according to the government spy agency GCHQ's director Sir Iain Lobban. In an article entitled "Countering the cyber threat to ...
Tags: Cyber-Crime, Computer Products
The STA is very disappointed that the European Commission has proposed provisional duties on Chinese imported solar panels of between 37% and 67% [1]. The STA opposes the imposition of any duties which restrict free trade and the growth of ...
Tags: STA, Free Trade, Climate Change
In another time the $5.07 billion price tag for NSW ports sold last Friday might have been the sort of deal to get a roll on for the market's deal junkies. After all, it's not often the market estimates for the price -- $2.5bn to $3bn -- ...
Tags: NSW, market estimates
India's Ministry of Steel has made it mandatory for 16 steel products which have a direct bearing on consumer health and safety to be registered with the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) under the Steel and Steel Products (Quality Control) ...
Tags: Registration Mandatory, Foreign Steel Products, Mineral
Decision rewards company’s strong commitment to international Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standard One of only two international companies invited as members of the Committee for Chemicals SCHOTT achieves uniform quality ...
Tags: glass manufacturing, glass, glass industry
In the March 2013 budget statement the Chancellor announced that he “will exempt from next year the industrial processes for that industry [ceramics] and some others from the Climate Change Levy. And in the Spending Round we will ...
Tags: glass manufacturers, glass, glass industry
The government's spy agency, GCHQ, has launched an Academic Research Institute to investigate new ways of automatically analysing software to reduce its vulnerability to cyber threats. It is the second institute focused on cyber security ...
Tags: GCHQ, economy, Cyber Research
Schott Glass has been appointed to India's national standards body. The company will advise on specifications and guidelines for various kinds of glass manufacturing in India mainly for pharmaceuticals tubing. According to the company, as ...
Tags: Schott Glass, pharma glass, glass
A Freedom Of Information (FOI) request has revealed the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) lost 83 BlackBerry devices and 17 laptops over the last three years. The FOI also showed 16 incidents of BIS issued mobile phones ...
Tags: BlackBerry devices, Information, laptops