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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
Buried treasure unearthed at EPCA

I heard a tale at a cocktail party last night that had the listeners agog. It seems that one senior trader recently left his company in a bit of hurry, and without troubling to clear his desk. It was not clear whether he had left of his own accord or had been pushed, but some time later, a man from head...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-28-2008
Ryder Cup players are model for petchems

Watching the opening of the Ryder Cup , which kicks off today in Kentucky, sets me wondering about golf and chemicals. Why is golf the sport of the international petrochemical industry? Even as EPCA has axed the Sunday sailing competition this year, and the tennis numbers dwindle away, but the golf event...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-19-2008
Have suit, will travel

"I suppose I'd better get my suit out for EPCA," said one US petrochemical conference veteran on the phone to me yesterday. "It's all casual for US conferences, unless you're giving a presentation." What a sartorial gulf there is between the US and the rest of the world...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-09-2008
Chemicals retirements - they're not what they used to be

To Holland Park today for a delightful business lunch with an industry friend who is in the process of retiring from the biz at the age of 60. Like so many retiring eminent statesmen before him, my pal has already had a grand farewell bash, at the Adlon Kempinski in Berlin at last year's EPCA, but...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-23-2008

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