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  • 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

  • Stop chewing on that now!!!

    I was driving to work this morning when I heard, for the first time, the re-broadcast of a BBC World Service from April. Reporter Mukul Devichand interviewed environmental activists in Beijing who quite understandably claimed not to understand his questions when he uttered the dreaded "D" word...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-14-2008
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