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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Football and chemical freebies

    I'm sitting in a football stadium on a mild and sunny Saturday afternoon in this cool damp English summer, watching our team in what is only its third game this season as all the expensive new players fail to score a single goal. Watching football in warm weather is a pleasantly new experience for...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-18-2008

  • EPCA to abandon Monaco?

    The European Petrochemical Association ( EPCA) June newsletter dropped into the Blog inbox today, with early news of the annual meeting in Monaco at the end of September. Already the jaded old hands in the European industry are complaining that they don't want to go back to Monaco again. "It's...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-27-2008
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