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
Ireland Health Minister Dr James Reilly is set to bring the draft for plain cigarette packaging to Cabinet for approval. If approved by Cabinet and enacted by the Oireachtas, the new law will see the ban on the use of any logos on ...
Tags: Cigarette Packaging, Cabinet
The only thing that is certain is that compliance is more easily mandated than achieved. It always takes time, and a lot of it. The RoHS2 (also called the RoHS Recast) was drafted in 2008 with an eye toward restricting hazardous ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Following clearance from the European Commission, INEOS Enterprises has successfully completed its agreement to purchase one of Europe’s leading solvent manufacturers, Sasol Solvents Germany. The acquisition includes production ...
Tags: Sasol Solvents, INEOS
Ukrainian gas company Naftogaz and Russian gas company Gazprom are considering an EU proposal where Naftogaz pays Gazprom $2 billion by Friday in exchange for talks on a new gas price and no prepayment in June, the European Commission said ...
Tags: EU energy, Russian Gas
The European Commission has published a revised and extended list of Critical Raw Materials, based on threatened supply coupled with economic importance. The 2014 list includes 13 of the 14 materials identified in the previous list of ...
Tags: Raw Materials, coking coal
China and EU launched a three-year cooperation on a Carbon Emissions Trading Scheme during the China-EU bilateral dialogue on climate change held on May 20. EU will contribute 5 million euros to the project. Carbon Emissions Trading ...
Tags: Carbon Emissions, greenhouse gases
The European Union (EU) is set to make changes to 'best before' labels for items such as rice, pasta and coffee, as the labels are found to be inappropriate for such food stuffs. Blaming the labeling for food that is being wasted, ...
Tags: Labeling Dates, best Before
Archroma, a global leader in color and specialty chemicals, and the former textile, paper and emulsions businesses of Clariant, is looking to secure a home-win at this year's Denim by Premiere Vision (DPV) in Barcelona with its amazing new ...
Tags: Textile, Jeans, Appare, Dazzling Color
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has joined a new consortium to establish a pan-European supply chain capability for the high-volume production of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) for ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
The Government has announced the latest regions to be included in the 2014-2020 Assisted Areas Map that will be eligible to bid for additional funding and benefits through such as Regional Growth Fund. The new Assisted Areas Map is ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Talk about bringing back manufacturing to the US has been on the lips of many people for some time now. But, the buzz is contagious and has traveled overseas to European shores. In an effort to keep Europe competitive, discussions about ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
The European Commission (EC) has confirmed disbursement of €840,000 from the European Globalization Adjustment Fund (EGF) to help 300 workers made redundant in the textile sector of the Spanish autonomous community of Valencia to find ...
Tags: Textile
Food safety, product tracing, and product recalls are currently at the forefront of both government regulations and industry concerns around the world as the industry prepares for new regulations around certain non-food, non-healthcare ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Food safety
On the anniversary of the tragic collapse of Rana Plaza in Dhaka (Bangladesh), the Foreign Trade Association (FTA) highlights the efforts undertaken by European retailers and importers to contribute to the improvement of safety conditions ...