Filtrona plc is to be renamed Essentra plc from June 26 and the company’s various divisions will be renamed later this year. Filtrona Filter Products will become Essentra Filter Products while Payne and Contego will Read More
Staff Writer
June 5, 2013
FlexLink, a provider of production logistics solutions, has opened a facility in Izmir, Turkey. The new FlexLink operations provide Turkish companies with direct access to the company’s latest technologies, including the recently launched conveyor Read More
Staff Writer
June 5, 2013
Imperial Tobacco is strengthening its ties with a charity working to end child labor in tobacco growing areas of the world. In a note posted on its website, the company said that all of its Read More
Staff Writer
June 5, 2013
Although tobacco taxes are often raised with the stated intention that the additional revenue will be spent on smoking cessation programs; the truth is that it is usually frittered away. A recent story by Petro Read More
Staff Writer
June 5, 2013
British American Tobacco is considering putting up a factory in the Philippines within the next two years in a move that would involve an investment on top of the $200 million it has already committed to Read More
Staff Writer
June 5, 2013
About 2.4 per cent of Chinese women – some 13 million – smoke, according to the All-China Women’s Federation, quoting ‘China‘s Report on the Harm of Smoking’. The federation warned that the risk of contracting HPV (human Read More
Staff Writer
June 4, 2013
In most parts of the world, May 31 was marketed as world no tobacco day, but in Medan, North Sumatra, a number of activists supporting the Indonesian Kretek Community (KKI) staged a rally expressing their support Read More
Staff Writer
June 4, 2013
A ban on retail cigarette price discounts is to be one of a number of new tobacco regulations to be introduced in Malaysia, according to a story in The Star. Smoking bans are to be Read More
Staff Writer
June 4, 2013
Japan’s Health Ministry wants the incidence of smoking in Japan reduced to 12 per cent by 2022, according to a Japan Daily Press story. Currently 19.5 per cent of Japanese people smoke, down from 27.7 per cent in 2000, Read More
Staff Writer
June 4, 2013
South Korea’s Health and Welfare Minister, Chin Young, has promised to try to convince the country’s lawmakers to pass a bill that would enforce the printing of graphic warnings on cigarette packs, according Read More
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