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Halloween commuting in Houston

As Halloween madness sweeps America, one scary commuter heads for the ICIS Houston office.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-31-2008
Trains for Training

The ICIS Training roadshow has spent the week out and about on the trains of Belgium and the Netherlands. After two courses in Brussels and one in Rotterdam, Nigel, Peter and I are veterans of the speedy Brussels metro, the over-heated, crowded Thalys inter-city train from Brussels to Rotterdam, the...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-15-2008
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
On perfect Houston office lunches and coffee

When I'm in the ICIS Houston office, one of my favourite places to get lunch is the local Whole Foods Market on Kirby. That is when I'm not queuing up for slabs of beef at the Texas Bar-B-Q or down the nail salon. So I was happy to see that a flagship Whole Foods store had opened last year in...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-11-2008
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
Julia scales the chemical heights

ICIS senior editor Julia Meehan has returned from a climbing trip around one of the great chemical plants of Europe with some spectacular photos. Modeling a fetching ensemble of safety goggles, hard hat, earplugs and steel-toecapped safety shoes, Julia enjoyed a view of three different countries from...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-16-2008
Surreal moments in Shanghai

Since we’ve described the Blog as a look at the “off-beat side of reporting on the global chemicals industry …behind the scenes at training sessions across three continents”, I feel I should record some of the more surreal moments of the editorial training I’ve been doing with our Shanghai team this...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-11-2008
I am a Shanghai commuter

Nothing beats the daily rush-hour commute on the Shanghai metro for getting the real flavour of working life in the metropolis. From the minute you step into the station – by-passing the teams of workers polishing the ground, the railings, the turnstiles – to when you drop your four yuan coins into the...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-11-2008
More ICIS/Chemease pricing reports on China

Everyone wants to read about China, I tell the 18 Shanghai reporters who are looking to me for guidance on how to write for an international audience. In fact they are already writing for a huge Chinese readership, but now they are going to turn their hand to writing in English about the Chinese domestic...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-11-2008

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