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Roomigami

I came across the new concept of " Roomigami " today when I was on the Frankfurter Messe website, looking up possible dates for next year's ICIS Training seminars. It's the art of shoe-horning conferences and people into the space available. But how shall we use this new word in a sentence...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-18-2008
EPCA Berlin 2009 - clash with German national holiday

EPCA 2009 in Berlin will clash with Germany's "Day of German Unity" national holiday, and hotel rooms are already commanding a premium one year ahead of the event. The annual conference of the European Petrochemical Association will be held on 3-7 October 2009, coinciding with the celebration...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-17-2008
New US benzene broker TnS links with PCB

Two emails dropped into the Blog inbox this morning announcing the launch of TnS (Trade n Services), a new US benzene broker in the person of Aruanan Mastenbroek. He will be covering the US and co-operating with Wim Buiter of PCB (Petrochemical Brokerage) on the European market, as of 1 October 2008...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-01-2008
EPCA youth report

It may be true that the chemical industry fails to attract a young crowd, but the EPCA youth chapter was out and about in Monte Carlo this week with the enthusiasm of those who can look daisy-fresh on three hours' sleep. Some old favourite venues appear to have fallen from favour. Adrian tells me...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-29-2008
Darkness and neglect at Le Balmoral

On the way to dinner at Le Saint-Benoit, we pass the dark and shuttered hulk of the former Balmoral Hotel, looming darkly over the bay. This was a haven to past generations from Shell, Integra and then ICIS, famed for its 1950s wallpaper and candlewick bedspreads and fondly referred to as the "Immoral"...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-29-2008
EPCA to become "more exclusive"

One rumour going the rounds at EPCA on Monday was that after the recent merging of the Annual Meeting and the Distribution conference, there was a feeling amongst the EPCA's board members that the event had become too large. According to one well-connected visitor to the ICIS suite, it had been mooted...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-29-2008
The Monte Carlo years are over

So it looks like it's true. As the Blog reported here in June, EPCA is to abandon Monte Carlo, never to return. Next year it's in Berlin, and in 2010 it's Vienna, and after that it will not be coming back, one board member told industry players on the sidelines at the conference. "It's...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-29-2008
The smell of EPCA

What is the defining smell of EPCA? Is it coffee and Gauloises on the warm summer air at the Café de Paris? Is it Hermes Eau d'Orange Verte soap and body lotion from the hotel bathrooms? Eye-watering perfumes mixed with hairspray amongst the porn starlets at Jimmy'z? Spilt beer and dodgy plumbing...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-28-2008
Fabulous food at ICIS Brussels training seminar

The best thing about this week's ICIS training seminars in Brussels in the EPCA offices, better even than all the train travel, is undoubtedly the food. It is fantastic. Catered by a local restaurant in the Montgomery suburb of Brussels, it is a sumptuous buffet. There's lumpfish roe mock-caviar...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-12-2008
Countdown to Monaco - EPCA minus 2 weeks

Monte Carlo 's Grimaldi Forum may be heralded as the new hub of EPCA , but I'm curious to see whether the master plan to shift us all from the Fairmont is going to work. We've had a couple of previews of the Forum for the Opening Reception and it seems an admirable venue for a party. Look...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-12-2008

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