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  • Buy small and local to survive

    Chemicals demand still exists, believe it or not, but the new economic order -one that could last as long as six years - requires new approaches. Purchasing managers need to start acting locally as well as globally. Who would want to be a financial controller if you work for a big company or the jack...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-14-2008

  • All those wasted lives - but at least you got your bonus

    Mr Obscenely Rich Got Out In Tiime Banker, please look into these eyes, see the pain from the last Great Depression and maybe you will give some of your obscenely huge bonus towards poverty relief. And perhaps also you'll be willing to pay for all the counselling that the children of this new Great...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-29-2008

  • Uncle Karl is back in fashion

    Yes, indeed, with all the talk of the collapse of capitalism and with liberal economists running for cover , dear old Karl might once again be the flavour of the month. Oh how I remember those dewy-eyed days, standing on the picket lines in the pouring rain during the 1984-1985 Miner's Strike in...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-22-2008

  • The big challenges

    As delegates gather for this year's European Petrochemical Association meeting in the unreal world of Monaco (unrealf or 99.9 per cent recurring of us), I thought it was worth summarising some of the issues discussed on this blog over the last few months. We've dealt with: *Oil-price volatility...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-27-2008

  • The world is round after all

    I asked my boss two years ago what were his favourite business books. His list included The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century by Thomas Friedman. Of course I rushed out and bought the book. It has sold by the truck load and was quoted by Mohamed Al-Mady of SABIC during his speech at...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-16-2008

  • 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

  • The river doesn't just run black

    China and the environment might not be only about rivers changing colour several times a day and factories belching out air pollution that kills hundreds of thousands of people prematurely every year. Elizabeth Economy outlined the extent of China's environmental problems in her book, The River Runs...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-17-2008

  • Why the Doha failure is bad

    The failure, and quite possibly the death, of the Doha round of trade negotiations earlier this week could create a very confusing and erratic regulatory landscape for the chemicals industry. This excellent entry in the New Scientist environment blog by Fred Pearce, senior environment correspondent,...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-02-2008
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