Entries from Chemicals & The Economy tagged with 'EPCA'
Time for leadership at EPCA
The chemical industry has a turnover of $3.4trn, and is the world's 3rd largest industry. It matters to the global economy. Many of its leaders are about to meet next weekend in Berlin for the annual European Petrochemical Association (EPCA)...
International Year of Chemistry 2011
2011 has been named International Year of Chemistry by the United Nations. The date coincides with the centenary of Marie Curie winning the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. A range of activities is being planned on a national and international basis...
Uncertainty rules in petrochemicals
The blog's former ICI colleague, Tom Crotty, aptly summarised the mood of most petchem players at this week's meeting in Budapest, Hungary, when telling ICIS' Nigel Davis that "2011 is a very tough call to forecast". Crotty is this...
Ralf Kuhlmann retires
The blog sends its very best wishes to Ralf Kuhlmann of ExxonMobil, who retires this week as Business Director, Basic Chemicals Europe. The phrase "a pillar of the industry" might have been invented to describe Ralf. He was President of...
Petchems prepares for a new reality
My first European Petrochemical Association (EPCA) meeting was in 1985. Since then, I have found that it provides an unique opportunity to look back over the current year, and focus on what might happen next. Thus in October 2007, just...
Cost, knowledge and speed
There is increasing evidence for the blog's belief that the auto industry is embarking on a fundamental shift in its approach. An interview in just-auto with Daimler's R&D head, Thomas Weber, provides some important insights into the opportunities that may...
Blue skies disappear
A year ago, the blog was in a minority of one, with its forecast for 2008. Its heading was 'Budgeting for a Downturn'. By contrast, the consensus post-EPCA was for $70bbl oil, debt market problems to be contained, and for...
$100 crude – US manufacturing close to recession
Oil prices touched $100/bbl today, a new record in nominal and inflation-adjusted terms. At the same time, the US Institute of Supply Management (ISM) index signalled that the manufacturing sector ‘failed to grow in December’, with ‘industries close to...
EPCA 2007
It seems likely that this week’s European Petrochemical Association annual meeting in Berlin will mark a turning point in the petchem cycle. Looking back over 2007, Boy Litjens, CEO of Sabic Europe, told ICIS@EPCA that performance this year had been...
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