Shareholder engagement: The state of play

Issuers and investors around the world believe that while stewardship codes have a role to play in promoting greater shareholder engagement, demand from issuers and investor’s clients is the real driving force behind greater engagement. This is the finding of global research by The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) with the assistance of senior staff at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Shareholder engagement: The state of play found issuers in developed markets believed that the most significant driver for improvement had been international trends for greater engagement, while change in ownership was the most frequent reason given for emerging markets. On their part, investors often cited increased client demand for active oversight or investment approaches that take account of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors as being the main driver for their engagement

THICKNESS OF THIN FILMS ON GLASS - A ROUND ROBIN TEST - REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON GLASS (ICG) TECHNICAL COMMITTEE 19 "GLASS SURFACE DIAGNOSTICS"

The film thicknesses of five different layer Systems on glass Substrates were analyzed and determined in a multi-method approach by eight different university and industrial laboratories. The total coating thicknesses varied between a few nm up to some 100 nm. The measurements give information about the chemical composition and cover a wide spectrum of typical coating application on glasses. The results of the different laboratories and methods are compared and the challenges and limits of the various analytical techniques are discussed