Welcome to the ICIS CEO Opinion e-newsletter. Cal Dooley, president of the American Chemistry Council (ACC), is in the hot seat this month... **If you would like to view this email as a web page. Please click below** http://epidm.edgesuite.net/RBI/chemicals/chnce/HTML/CHNCE_20090414.html **Add us to your safe senders list** http://epidm.edgesuite.net/RBI/whitelist/whitelist.html ------------------------------- ICIS CEO Opinion ================ Interview of the month =================================== American Chemistry Council sharpens focus on product stewardship ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.icis.com/Articles/article.aspx?liarticleid=9206397&nf=true Cal Dooley, president of the American Chemistry Council (ACC), is in the hot seat this month, as Joe Chang, editor of ICIS Chemical Business, talks to him about product stewardship and process safety ahead of the important ICCM-2 meeting in Geneva in May. Related news =================================== US chemical industry ready for safety audits – Dow official ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.icis.com/Articles/article.aspx?liarticleid=9204030&nf=true ACC programme adopts new goals to boost safety ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.icis.com/Articles/article.aspx?liarticleid=9200327&nf=true Process safety threatened by downturn ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.icis.com/Articles/article.aspx?liarticleid=9190966&nf=true The challenge of a global product strategy ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.icis.com/Articles/article.aspx?liarticleid=9202201&nf=true CEOs can give ICCA global edge ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.icis.com/Articles/article.aspx?liarticleid=9072422&nf=true US chems must engage Congress, environmentalists ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.icis.com/Articles/article.aspx?liarticleid=9206786&nf=true More News http://www.icis.com/news/news.aspx?label=headlines More information on ACC =================================== ACC home page http://www.americanchemistry.com/s_acc/index.asp ACC news room http://www.americanchemistry.com/s_acc/sec_newsroom.asp?CID=151&DID=194 ACC Responsible Care program http://www.americanchemistry.com/s_responsiblecare/sec.asp?CID=1298&DID=4841 ACC product stewardship policy http://www.americanchemistry.com/s_acc/sec_policyissues.asp?CID=316&DID=1142 Profile of Calvin Dooley http://www.americanchemistry.com/s_acc/sec_leadership.asp?CID=351&DID=753 Latest news from ICIS =================================== Japan to apply more fiscal balm to deep economic wounds http://www.icis.com/Articles/article.aspx?liarticleid=9207241&nf=true Possible GM bankruptcy could cost plastics makers http://www.icis.com/Articles/article.aspx?liarticleid=9207202&nf=true LyondellBasell will cut 3,000 jobs, close 10 plants http://www.icis.com/Articles/article.aspx?liarticleid=9207219&nf=true Saudi Petro Rabigh achieves on-spec material at new cracker http://www.icis.com/Articles/article.aspx?liarticleid=9207229&nf=true Related features from ICIS Chemical Business =================================== The adoption of process safety also means a culture change http://www.icis.com/Articles/article.aspx?liarticleid=9206396&nf=true Which way next for chemical industry's Responsible Care? http://www.icis.com/Articles/article.aspx?liarticleid=9184846&nf=true Corporate memory loss in chemical industry may cause accidents http://www.icis.com/Articles/article.aspx?liarticleid=9160215&nf=true ICIS Conference =================================== The 2nd Ammonia Handling and Safety Shipping Workshop 23-24 June 2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Following last year’s inaugural event, ICIS will run the 2nd Ammonia Handling and Safety Shipping Workshop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 23-24 June 2009. Participants will have the opportunity to network and share current best practices for the safe transportation of anhydrous ammonia, addressing crucial safety and security aspects related to loading, discharging and shipping ammonia. http://www.icisconference.com/ammoniasafety2009 ICIS Podcast =================================== ICIS radio Americas April 6, 2009 The April 6 issue of ICIS Chemical Business takes a look at the chemical industry in India. Editors Feliza Mirasol and Clay Boswell deliver reports on investment in India, and China and India's comparative chemical financing, respectively. http://www.icis.com/tv/tv,id_9206394.htm Simon Robinson and Nigel Davis talk over the business of the week, including Dow closing the Rohm and Haas deal, Solutia selling its polyamide business and Solvay looking at options for its pharma business http://www.icis.com/tv/tv,id_9206036.htm ICIS Connect ====================== One of the speakers at the Green Chemistry Briefing (which ICIS helped to organise) at the recent Informex meeting for the fine chemical and pharma intermediates sector in San Francisco explained that California is using a wiki to help generate chemicals policy. 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