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  • Would you pass the Koala Bear test?

    I've just returned from a wonderful few days in Perth, Western Australia, where the motorists don't as a rule try to kill you (unlike in most of Asia) and if you are a tourist at least, you can come away with the false impression that the cork-hatted people have got the balance between work and...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-08-2008

  • The big challenges

    As delegates gather for this year's European Petrochemical Association meeting in the unreal world of Monaco (unrealf or 99.9 per cent recurring of us), I thought it was worth summarising some of the issues discussed on this blog over the last few months. We've dealt with: *Oil-price volatility...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-27-2008

  • The world is round after all

    I asked my boss two years ago what were his favourite business books. His list included The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century by Thomas Friedman. Of course I rushed out and bought the book. It has sold by the truck load and was quoted by Mohamed Al-Mady of SABIC during his speech at...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-16-2008

  • A drowning man will clutch onto anything

    A drowning man will grab hold of any floating debris - even a plastic bag made from standard-grade Chinese polyethylene (PE). Hence, last Friday a statement by Wang Tianpu led to a few days of excited speculation about the cancellation of several Chinese cracker projects . The president of Sinopec Corp...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-12-2008

  • Uncle Sam back from the dead?

    A very interesting report by McKinsey (you can sign up free for their online newsletter which only takes a minute) expands on the theme of reverse globalisation which I talked about last week. The cost of shipping a standard 40-foot container has tripled since 2000 and labour cost increases have risen...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-10-2008

  • Can I have those coconuts, please?

    This article, by David Strahan, author of The Last Oil Shock, says that it would take three million coconuts to power one flight from London to Amsterdam on 100% biofuels. Some of the comments posted at the end of this excellent article, first published in the New Scientists, agree with Strahan that...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2008

  • China's growth conundrum

    I couldn't let today pass without including a picture of the Olympic Stadium in Beijing where the opening ceremony is about to take place. The purpose of this redefined blog is not to look at the short term, though. For expert commentaey on the effects of the Olympics and other macroeconomic factors...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-08-2008

  • Why the Doha failure is bad

    The failure, and quite possibly the death, of the Doha round of trade negotiations earlier this week could create a very confusing and erratic regulatory landscape for the chemicals industry. This excellent entry in the New Scientist environment blog by Fred Pearce, senior environment correspondent,...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-02-2008
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