Category Archives: The Year In Surfactants

2018 – End of Year Review

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Year End Review – 2018 The Road More or Less Traveled If you are looking for the December Surfactants Review, this is not it. Follow this link. Here we have my year end musings. You won’t learn much if anything about surfactants but you will enjoy some good music and maybe learn some things you did not know about P&G and the world of advertising. Aah yes, the road less traveled. It’s definitely the way to go for the original thinker, the leader, the visionary. All great business and personal accomplishment has been found down that less traveled road, bravely trodden with fortitude and determination. True? I’m not sure about that. In fact I tend not to believe it without overwhelming evidence. I remember telling one of my protégés early on when discussing a rather unusual career aspiration that “There’s a good reason that particular road is less traveled”. As a sometime hiker and skier I can tell you there’s usually a great reason why certain routes are less traveled. There’s obviously a reason behind every road’s degree of travel and it’s probably worth thinking about those reasons first before making a commitment. It was a 1916 poem by Robert…

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2012 The Year in Surfactants

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2012 was a very eventful year in surfactants globally and 2013 looks set to see even more change and opportunity for this most essential of industries. This short reviews hits some of the highlights from last year and provides some clues to what we might expect in 2013. Thanks and acknowledgements to ICIS in particular for many of the news articles on which I draw here and also for surfactant conference proceedings which themselves broke a lot of news this year.

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