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Wood Mackenzie staff in the money

ICIS Chemicals Confidential — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:10:59 GMT

Wood Mackenzie, the energy consultancy and long-term supporter of the ICIS Aromatics Conference, was sold yesterday for £533 million , in a deal whereby 100 of the company's staff share a total payout of about £100 million. The Blog was delighted...(read more)

25 years of Virgin Atlantic

ICIS Chemicals Confidential — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:43:27 GMT

Sir Richard Branson of the Virgin Group is doing a guest editor stint today at ICIS' sister publication Flight, and he tells us that Virgin Atlantic's popular 25th anniversary ad is going to make a return to UK TV screens this week. The retrospective...(read more)

A Town Called Panic - a movie comedy of plastics

ICIS Chemicals Confidential — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:08:38 GMT

"A Town Called Panic" (Panique au village), a Belgian comedy movie about plastic toys, previewed at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday. The review in Hollywoodreporter.com says that it is "absolutely brilliant:" The main characters...(read more)

Chemical companies: Green surfers or divers?

Green Chemicals — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:54:33 GMT

ICIS (the company I work for) in cooperation with technology start-up company Genomatica is working on a survey on whether chemical companies these days are just riding the sustainable chemistry wave e.g. looking at energy/manufacturing efficiency, using...(read more)

Flu fears prompt cancellations at APIC conference

ICIS Chemicals Confidential — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:58:08 GMT

ICIS editors are setting off from the Singapore office on Tuesday night for the seven hour flight to Seoul, South Korea for the APIC conference on 14-15 May, despite news of delegate cancellations due to swine flu fears. I've been following with fascination...(read more)

Southwest Chemical Spring Golf Day in Houston

ICIS Chemicals Confidential — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:05:35 GMT

Stephen Burns in ICIS Houston has made this video of last week's Southwest Chemical spring charity golf day. I think I recognise a few of those backs. He writes ... The Southwest Chemical Association held its spring charity golf day on Monday 4 May...(read more)

The "All About ICIS" video - now showing on YouTube

ICIS Chemicals Confidential — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:00:59 GMT

By popular demand, here's the ICIS video that was showing in the ICIS suite at NPRA last week - no voiceover, just music, tinkling away in the background for three days ... Read More......(read more)

ICIS at NPRA 2009

ICIS Chemicals Confidential — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:19:20 GMT

My colleague Stephen Burns, managing editor of ICIS Houston, has compiled a short video of some of the conference activity in the ICIS suite and beyond, on the sidelines of the 2009 NPRA conference in San Antonio. Read More......(read more)

Top NPRA parties 2009

ICIS Chemicals Confidential — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:40:12 GMT

Who in the real world gets invited to five parties in one evening? Even in these hard times, most of the regular NPRA parties were still on, even if some of them were a bit sparsely attended and doorkeepers were rather less strict about keeping uninvited...(read more)

The ICIS suite at NPRA 2009, San Antonio, Texas

ICIS Chemicals Confidential — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:18:48 GMT

Photos of the ICIS suite in the Marriott Riverwalk (MRW) Hotel at NPRA on Sunday, 29 March 2009. Read More......(read more)

Manners Maketh Man

ICIS Chemicals Confidential — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:47:35 GMT

SAN ANTONIO (Chemicals Confidential)--I had the nicest email yesterday, from a French contact. It read: "Dear Mrs Ortner, Thank you very much for your below message - this is precisely what I need.. Thanks again." It just shows there's no...(read more)

ICIS offices on Google Street View

ICIS Chemicals Confidential — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:06:17 GMT

I think that by now we've exhausted all the fun to be had from Google Street View, but here's a couple of views to add to your collection. ICIS Houston office ICIS London office View Larger Map View Larger Map Read More......(read more)

Help us find our Longest Standing Reader

ICIS Chemicals Confidential — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:49:39 GMT

I'm at the ICIS Training seminars in Brussels and as usual we give out free copies of our ICIS Chemical Business magazine (ICB, the Magazine Formerly Known As European Chemical News or Chemical Market Reporter), and during the workshop session I like...(read more)

Revisiting the predictions of the Aromatics Conference 2008

ICIS Chemicals Confidential — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:48:21 GMT

It's always good to be proved right. It has been brought to my attention that one of the speakers at our European Aromatics Conference in Cologne in November 2008 made some fairly accurate predictions in his presentation: 1) a prediction of 40 - 53...(read more)

ICIS TV in San Francisco

ICIS Chemicals Confidential — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:15:20 GMT

It's my fellow ICIS blogger Simon Robinson on ICIS TV in front of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and introducing Informex, a week-long exhibition and conference dedicated to innovations in chemistry. Read More......(read more)