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Art galleries and chemical plants No.1 - Amsterdam

For great art within a short distance of chemical plants, it's hard to beat Amsterdam. Just a few kilometres from the chemical hubs of Rotterdam, Sittard and Antwerp, you can see: Read More...

Published 9 Feb 2009 7:16 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: chemicals, business travel, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Sittard, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Vermeer
Aromatics Day Two

Everyone's homeward bound from Cologne after the two-day Aromatics Conference , and it sounds like it went well. It started with doom and gloom about the recession, and then delegates heard the breaking news overnight and this morning about the terrible...

Published 27 Nov 2008 16:28 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: chemicals, business travel, conferences, aromatics, Ineos, aromatics conference, Cologne, Tricon
Chemical travel - the periodic table taxi

It's a taxi with a periodic table on it! I was driving out of Oxford in the dark last night when I saw this taxi in my rear view mirror. I couldn't stop to get a photo, but I've found it on the web . It's joined the Blog's collection...

Published 10 Oct 2008 18:37 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: chemicals, trivia, business travel, training, chemical taxi, periodic table taxi, Oxford Princeton, Oxford
Red ant fury at chemical plant opening

Red fire ants savaged an innocent chemicals reporter last week as she braved the great outdoors in Mobile, Alabama to cover the ground-breaking of a new plant. Suffering eight bites to her left foot, reporter Doris is now recovering in New York City,...

Published 5 Aug 2008 13:31 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: chemicals, business travel, media life, Evonik, mobile, Alabama, alkoxide, fire ants
Bus travel boosts crude supply for petchems

"Why haven't you written about the joys of travelling by bus?" Julia our resident 4x4 driver asks me as I am putting on my shades and heading out into the late afternoon sunshine to hang out at the local bus stop. It's true that in the...

Published 28 Jul 2008 13:57 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: chemicals, business travel, Petrochemicals, gasoline, energy, crude, buses, public transport
Bronzed limbs - the chemical way

It's not every day that chemical commuters set off from London to Brussels on the Eurostar train and find that the St Pancras station has been taken over by 30 models, male and female, who have stripped off to highlight Sun Awareness Week. I am grateful...

Published 7 Jul 2008 13:34 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: chemicals, trivia, business travel, fashion, London, Brussels, travel, Eurostar, tanning, St Pancras
Coping with jetlag, chemical-style

Chemicals folk travel the world in pursuit of global deals, but it seems that some of them are better at it than others. Some of them swear by Melatonin , which helps them to sleep on the plane and to stay awake by day at their destination. Unfortunately...

Published 2 Jun 2008 9:02 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: chemicals, business travel, gossip, Singapore, New York, APIC, sleeping tablets
Julia scales the chemical heights

ICIS senior editor Julia Meehan has returned from a climbing trip around one of the great chemical plants of Europe with some spectacular photos. Modeling a fetching ensemble of safety goggles, hard hat, earplugs and steel-toecapped safety shoes, Julia...

Published 16 May 2008 9:46 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: chemicals, business travel, ICIS, plant visit

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