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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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