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The Burj Tower - world's tallest buildings attract petchems folk

Is it any coincidence that the world's tallest buildings are in cities beloved by the global petrochemical business? How long will it be before the annual December conference of the Gulf Petrochemical Association ( GPCA ) moves from Atlantis, The Palm , Dubai to the world's newest tallest building...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-18-2008
Couch Surfing - even cheaper business travel

Hands up everyone whose business travel plans have been cancelled in the last few weeks due to desperate cost-cutting? That many of you? Well now it's time to turn the clock back to your back-packing years and look into the new cheap-as-chips economy travel mode: couch surfing . Just sign up on www...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-10-2008
ICIS-CBI China reporting team

Alfred Wong has sent this photo of the smiling ICIS-CBI China reporting team, standing on the steps outside the offices on a warm autumn Shanghai day. In the picture (from left): Front row: Tina Liu (news), Crissy Qi (team leader of Chinese reports), Alfred Wong (editorial director), Judith Wang (news...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-15-2008
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
Asian Olefins Conference

Hello. As we are in the midst of putting together the programme for the ICIS Olefins conference in Shanghai, we would like to know if any of you out there had any topics or areas of interest which we could introduce to the Forum. was thinking along the lines of the current logistics bottleneck, new Mideast...

Posted to Base oils (Forum) by olefinsteve on 07-16-2008
Shanghai’s royal flush

I am prepared to believe that Shanghai Pudong airport’s new Terminal 2 is the most beautiful and tranquil airport in the world. The soaring architecture, the serenity and the sparkling cleanliness of the place all play their part, but for the final astonishing touch, you have to see the washrooms in...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-11-2008
Shanghai Skyline – two visions

It’s my last day in the Shanghai office, and I’m just taking a souvenir photo of the outside of the CBI building when I get an email from my colleague Nigel in London to say that he has been waiting all week for the Blog to have a picture of the Bund. And to balance this picture, here is one of the opposite...

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