By Ed Zwirn
Just-Style.com, Nov. 10, 2016
International trade deals, particularly the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), may fall by the wayside following the surprise victory of Republican Donald Trump for the U.S. presidency, participants at the 28th Apparel Importers Trade & Transportation Conference warned yesterday (9 November). Continue reading
By Ed Zwirn
Global Meat News, Nov. 6, 2016
Voters in Massachusetts are poised to decide on Tuesday [November 8] whether the US state should ban the sale of pork products or veal from animals that cannot turn around or stretch their limbs within their cages.
(Soap, Perfumery & Cosmetics, November 2016)
With marijuana prohibition sliding, the American personal care sector is looking to boost the use of hemp, says Ed Zwirn
As a decades-long prohibition on the production and sale of the Cannabis sativa plant and its components are falling away throughout North America, the use of hemp as a personal care product ingredient is on the rise. Continue reading
Ford’s Mielewski says almost 300 parts in automaker’s vehicles derived from sources including flax, soybeans, cotton, wood, jute and natural rubber.
Aug. 25, 2016
By Mandy Kovacs
with Ed Zwirn in New York and Barbara Barkhausen in Sydney
OTTAWA – Auto-components researchers are developing the use of grasses such as hemp or flax to make tough but lightweight bioplastics that also help reduce a vehicle’s carbon footprint by using a renewable resource. Continue reading