SECA follows on from SWCA and NECA

SAN ANTONIO (Chemicals Confidential)--The Southeast Chemicals Association is the newest of the US industry groupings, I hear from my friend Kathy H on Sunday morning at NPRA. It's news to me, although it's been going for about five years, following in the footsteps of Southwest Chems and NECA.

The SECA guys meet at the Marriott Grand Dunes Resort, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and my colleague Stephen Burns will be speaking to their next meeting on 10 June, on developments in global petrochemical markets. "It's the world capital of golf, a pretty swish resort, you can walk straight out of the hotel onto the beach," he tells me in the ICIS suite in a hoarse whisper, having lost his voice just in time for the conference.