Topic “Featured News” — Exporter Magazine

The PLAnet Cup, launched by Melissa Floreani, owner of Espresso Syndicate, a company which supplies sustainable, organic fair trade coffee to cafes across Melbourne, is lined with biodegradable PLA (cornstarch) which is harvested from renewable resources and can be composted after use. Sudan will double its sugar output to at least 1.5 million tonnes a year to become a net exporter by 2014, part of a larger plan to catapult the African nation into the world’s top five producers, according to a Reuters report carried by TradeArabia.com. Ireland is planning a big increase in milk output once quotas are lifted in 2015 as the government places food at the heart of an export led growth strategy, according to dairyreporter.com. Global demand for functional additives and barrier coatings for plastic packaging is forecast to grow by 4.3% in the five years from 2009 to reach US$752 million (NZ$1.03 billion) by 2014, according to a report by foodproductiondaily.com. Jiang Bing, director-general of the Policy Planning Department under the NEA, was quoted by People’s Daily online as saying that the plan has specified major policy measures for the development and utilization of nuclear, wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, unconventional natural gas and other new energies Foxconn Technology Group, which supplies Sony, Apple and Nokia with IT components, is moving part of its major plant away from costly Shenzhen after hefty wage increases at its factories in the southern city, affecting hundreds of thousands of workers, according to ChinaDaily.com.