The new design of the Green Fibre Bottle was unveiled at the Sustainable Brands 2016 Copenhagen conference. Carlsberg green fiber500 business leaders joined the Sustainable Brands community at the conference, aimed at inspiring business success through innovation and ‘Activating Purpose’ towards a sustainable future.
As part of the work of the Carlsberg Circular Community, Carlsberg kicked off the development project in 2015with Danish packaging company EcoXpac to develop a beer bottle made from sustainably sourced wood fibre. The first prototype of a fibre-based bottle was revealed in January 2015 by Professor Flemming Besenbacher, Chairman of the Carlsberg Foundation, at the World Economic Forum in Davos.The new design of the beer bottle was developed with Carlsberg’s partners in the Carlsberg Circular Community as well as CP+B Copenhagen and Kilo, a Danish industrial design studio. The prototype, which has been prepared based on the distinctive Carlsberg design, shows how the bottle might look like when it hits the market.
Manufacturing the UK’s new nuclear submarine fleet will generate a supply chain spend of between £8bn and £9bn. efence secretary Michael Fallon said construction on the four Successor Class submarines would begin this week, as he announced nearly £1.3bn of new investment for BAE Systems.
The defence company will build the new submarines at its shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.
1. You predicted pre-BREXIT the end of the EU. But did you envisage at this time anything like the Deutsche Bank crisis?
Yes, Deutsche Bank has been in crisis for many years. I did write about it late last year in November in the Australian Financial Review. I put my thoughts down this way:-
“Bankers are overpaid, bonus payments are useless and there is an inflation of fancy job titles in banking
“That was the essence of a speech recently delivered at Frankfurt’s Goethe University.
“Had the speaker been a sociology professor in a graduate seminar, that would not be worth reporting. But when the new chief executive of Deutsche Bank turns on his own industry in such harsh words, that is a different story.”
I first wrote about the sorry state of German banking in 2010:
So I always thought that sooner or later the problems in Germany’s banking system would come to the surface, and they now have for all the world to see.
2. In general how would you rank the problems facing the EU now in terms of immigration, terrorism, finance for example? The EU faces so many problems simultaneously, it’s hard to even rank them. I think banking, finance and monetary policy remain the most important problems. Security and immigration are a massive headache, too – not least the EU’s stance on Russia and Turkey. And then there is the minor complication of Brexit.
3. How much water will any NZ/EU free trade agreement hold? I am relatively confident we will see EU/NZ FTA. Having said that, any free trade initiatives are highly contentious in Europe, just think of CETA (Canada) and TTIP (US). Finding an agreement with NZ is not at the top of the EU’s priority list.
4. Your forecast on the US presidential election? It will be a bad outcome. Regardless who wins. Neither of the candidates has any idea on how to deal with America’s long-term fiscal problems. Neither of them is pro trade. Neither will touch the US welfare state. The Americans only have the choice what kind of mess they prefer.
5. How do you see the TPPA emerging from this? The best we can hope for is for a lame-duck President Obama to sign it before his successor has a chance to kill the deal.
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Moscow and Guangzhou have joined more than 40 Emirates A380 destination cities, providing travellers on the routes with the airline’s best-in-class onboard product and renowned service.
Passengers in all classes can enjoy the unparalleled quietness of the aircraft and the 12- time award-winning ice in-flight entertainment system with a choice of over 2,500 channels on-demand. Those travelling on the A380 can stay easily connected to family, friends and colleagues with up to two hours free onboard Wi-Fi.
As with all Emirates flights, passengers benefit from a generous baggage allowance of up to 35kg in Economy Class, 40kg in Business Class and 50kg in First Class and are able to check-in for their flights up to 48-hours before departure.
From the end of this month, Emirates will have five daily A380 New Zealand services, when the double-decker aircraft come onto the daily non-stop Auckland-Dubai service and the daily Christchurch flight, adding to the current three A380 daily services from Auckland to Dubai and beyond via Australia.
Get a 360 view of what to expect onboard an Emirates A380 here.
New Zealand aircraft manufacturer Pacific Aerospace is poised to open a new manufacturing facility for its P-750 XSTOL single-engined turboprop in Changzhou, eastern China, which will be dedicated to producing the extremely short take-off and landing type for the Chinese market. The announcement comes as the Hamilton-based airframer prepares to deliver the first Garmin G600-equipped P-750 to Papua New Guinea, where it will be used for medical evacuation services.
“The glass cockpit replaces the P-750's analogue dials and is being offered as standard on all models ordered from October,” says Pacific's general manager, global sales, Mark Crouch. “The older system is still available on request, but it will be treated as a special order.” Pacific has delivered 110 P-750s since the first iteration of the eight-seat, multimission type, then called the PAC 750XL, entered service in 2005. A further 10 units are scheduled for delivery this year.
“China is proving a really popular market for the P-750, and we are struggling to keep up with demand,” says Crouch. “That is why we decided to set up a 50-50 joint venture with local company Beijing Automotive to create a purpose-built final assembly base in the country,” Crouch adds. The venture will be operated under the company name Beijing Pan-Pacific Aerospace Technology.
The P-750s will be assembled from the kits supplied by Pacific's Hamilton headquarters. The first units are scheduled to roll off the Changzhou assembly line “in a couple of months", says Crouch. The P-750 has found success in a range of markets from ad hoc charter and scheduled services to pipeline inspection and skydiving. “With its short take-off and landing capabilities, the aircraft has found its niche in very remote areas of the world where it can transport passengers and cargo into and out of the most isolated communities," says Crouch. Powered by a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34 engine, the P-750 can take off and land in under 800ft (244m). It has a maximum speed of 170kt (315km/h) and a range of 1,180nm (2,190km).
SEALORD, New Zealand’s largest fishing company, has turned to Norway to help it extend and modernise its fishing fleet.
The company has placed a NOK 400 million plus order for a new factory trawler with Simek, based at Flekkefjord on the southern Norwegian coast. This is Sealord’s first newbuild for more than 20 years.
The 82.90m trawler will be able to process all of Sealord’s target species at sea. Designed by Skipsteknisk, it will be delivered in 2018.
Sealord’s shareholders, Maori owned Moana New Zealand and Japanese company Nippon Suisan Kaisha, said they are committed to part-funding the vessel.
Sealord’s Steve Yung described the backing of the company’s shareholders as ‘a clear demonstration of their . . .
Social Development Minister Anne Tolley and Corrections Minister Judith Collins have announced the launch of a new initiative to support more offenders into employment.
Budget 2016 invested $15.3 million over three years for the trial, which is targeted at increasing the employment prospects of released prisoners.
Work and Income case managers and professionals will work with prisoners from pre-release for up to a year to help them prepare, find and stay in employment to help reduce reoffending.
“Released prisoners have been identified as one of MSD’s most complex and challenging groups,” says Ms Tolley.
“Eighty per cent are still on a benefit 12 months after release, and many stay on a benefit long-term, meaning over their lifetime they have a $30,000 higher benefit liability on average than the general population.
“This important work aims to give them and their families an opportunity to lead successful lives, and to steer them away from a return to crime.”
Work and Income case managers and Corrections staff will work with up to 200 clients at any one time to develop an individual plan to get them into employment, and to help offenders access education and training, financial support services, health services, and social and housing support. This will begin 10 weeks before release from prison and continue for 12 months after release.
This initiative gets underway today at seven prisons – in Northland, Hawkes Bay, Manawatu, Rimutaka, Arohata, Auckland Men’s and Auckland Women’s prisons.
A similar service delivered by contractors is scheduled to begin in November for Rolleston, Christchurch Men’s and Christchurch Women’s prisons.
Corrections Minister Judith Collins welcomed the launch of this project.
“Reducing re-offending is the prime goal of the department. We know that having a job can stop people from committing crime. Initiatives such as this will go a long way to helping us achieve our targets.”
“The intention of this programme is to ensure people are ready for work and have skill sets to meet employer and labour market needs for sustainable employment,” says Ms Collins.
Top international scholars, Chinese officials and New Zealand exporters will gather at Victoria University of Wellington this month to examine how China’s push to modernise its agricultural sector will affect exporters in New Zealand.
Victoria’s New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre is organising a two-day conference, ‘The Rise of Chinese Agriculture’, to analyse China’s changing policies, market trends, investments, food safety regulations and the potential flow-on effects to New Zealand’s agricultural business.
Chair of the China Research Centre Tony Browne says the conference is a unique opportunity to hear directly from experts, practitioners, policymakers and industry players.
“Included in the line-up of speakers, we have 17 international top scholars and practitioners, including a delegation from China’s Ministry of Agriculture and New Zealanders working in China to examine this critical issue.
“New Zealand exports are dominated by agriculture products and our industry has attracted a lot of investment interest from China. It’s important that we have these discussions now, so our industry is prepared for the changes and challenges ahead.
“We need to analyse very carefully what China’s rising agricultural sector means in the medium and longer term for New Zealand.”
What: The Rise of Chinese Agriculture conferenceWhen: 27-28 OctoberWhere: Victoria University of WellingtonCouncil Chamber, Hunter BuildingGate 2Kelburn ParadeWellington
Please visit the conference webpage for more information, conference programme and list of speakers.
Does anyone need Gigabit fibre in 2016? Writes James Ting-Edwards, InternetNZ's Issues Advisor. The launch of blazing-fast fibre services has met skepticism, with journalists asking “does anyone need this?” Well, some experts are convinced you do, and I tend to agree.
If you search for “things you can do with Gigabit Internet,” you’ll probably get a list that goes:
I agree these are pretty niche, but there’s another couple of items I’d say are much more interesting.
Happening in parallel with the rollout of “stream-five-HD-videos at once” Internet is the review of our Telco Rules for 2020 and beyond. Over the next 20 years, these rules will affect how much Kiwis pay for Internet, and what they get. In 50 years’ time, these rules could be a footnote in the great book of “how New Zealand got it right: unlocking the Internet.”
That’s why InternetNZ, and many others, have submitted on the Government’s review. We want all New Zealanders to get better Internet at fair prices - that means getting this review right.
All submissions have now been published on the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s website. The 31 submissions cover perspectives from a range of organisations such as fixed-line network operators like Chorus and the Local Fibre Companies; retail providers like Spark, Vodafone, Vocus, and 2degrees; and independent voices including TUANZ, Rural Women and InternetNZ.
We’ve been busy reading these submissions to understand the different perspectives on the issues raised. There are plenty of views about how best to incentivise the building and maintenance of Internet and telecommunications networks in New Zealand; how we ensure that these perform well and how to price them fairly for all parties. Given what’s at stake, we can expect some disagreements. But much more importantly, we expect to learn something.
We’ve definitely learned one thing. Through all the different submissions we’ve read, everyone wants clear direction on the Government’s desired outcomes. Setting those priorities up-front will make the rules predictable, and that will support investment in better services. We understand that shifting frameworks is complicated - but if further discussion is needed, we should have that discussion now. The worst outcome would be to leave the hard questions for a drawn-out, expensive debate among lawyers.
There is another thing most submitters agree on: our Internet can go faster. Part of the proposed rules are “anchor products,” which network providers will have to offer. Most submissions agree that the “anchors” proposed for fibre are way too slow. In fact, most submissions are suggesting that the Gigabit speeds, which some find ridiculous in 2016, should be the new baseline from 2020.
We agree. New Zealand has invested in fast fibre networks which will reach 80% of our homes and businesses, and all of our schools and hospitals. These networks have vast potential. New Zealand’s creative industries, including the games industry, have room to grow thanks, in part, to better networks. These same networks can ultimately help with some of our biggest physical-world problems - consider Gigabit-enabled telecommuting as a means for reducing housing and transport woes.
UFB fibre does not reach everyone. We agree with many other submitters that beyond the urban UFB areas, innovative use of wireless and mobile networks are likely to be the best, most efficient way to deliver improved Internet services.
I said I wanted to add to the list of “things you can do with Gigabit.” Besides streaming videos and downloading really fast, how about:
support new, high-value exports
These are the things that make this Act review process so important to New Zealand, and so exciting if we get them right.
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