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ICIS Children say Yes to Physics

There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth in the UK about the lack of students taking sciences, particularly physics . But ICIS offspring are bucking the trend in a truly cavalier fashion. After this summer's exam successes, we have a total haul of FOUR physics students amongst ICIS children. We...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-28-2008
Fusion - new aromatics broker

It's all change in the small world of European aromatics brokers. Tom Smit, formerly of Petrochemical Brokerage (PCB), has set up a new chemicals broking firm called Fusion. Launched on 1 August 2008, the new broking team comprises Smit, plus two brokers in the US and one in Asia, he told Peter Salisbury...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-26-2008
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
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
Bursting solar deals

If I'm an alternative energy investor, should the surge in solar projects make me think twice in investing in this industry? They reminded me of the dot.com and housing boom before their bubbles burst. The same sentiment is partially echoed in this article published last week in ICIS Chemical Business...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-07-2008
Houston fashion goes tropical

A tropical influence has been evident in ICIS Houston in advance of the scheduled arrival tomorrow of Tropical Storm Edouard. They tell me that dress-down Friday shirts have been tending towards Hawaiian over the long hot Texan summer, and that in last Friday's impromptu office fashion contest, the...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-04-2008
An homage to "Living without Polypropylene"

The Blog is shocked to see that our own ground-breaking article on " Living without polypropylene for a week - Cold Turkey " by Andy Brice in ICIS Chemical Business on 19 May 2008 has been the subject of an "homage" today by a reporter on the BBC website and turned into " A Month...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-01-2008
Reed Business Information on Dutch satirical news site

Imagine my astonishment when this Dutch joke article on the sale of our own Reed Business Information (parent company of ICIS) popped out of Google this afternoon. It is from the website 925people.nl (nine to five, gettit?) and titled: " Te Koop, zgan: Reed Business Information, met aantrekkelijke...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-30-2008
Totally recyclable PLA cups for ICIS smoothies

Nigel Davis enthuses about drinking his smoothies out of fully recyclable PLA ... It's getting everywhere. These recyclable PLA (polylactic acid) smoothie cups were spotted in the ICIS canteen on Wednesday. The big recycling push here at Reed Business Information (RBI - ICIS's parent company...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-16-2008
The Team ICIS Ammonia Handling & Shipping Safety Workshop

The Team ICIS Ammonia Handling & Shipping Safety Workshop

Posted to conferences (Gallery) by conferences on 07-16-2008

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