ICIS / Neil A Burns LLC - Surfactant Conferences Venture
I was very happy to see our company release the following news item late on Friday. This new venture comes out of the success of our surfactant conference produced with ICIS in New York in May. I am looking forward to seeing many friends and colleagues at future events, including the First ICIS Asian Surfactant Conference in Singapore, November 10th. I also encourage your feedback regarding content, format and location of these events going forward.
NEWS RELEASE: Neil A Burns LLC
For More Information Contact: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Neil Burns: Tel +1 (732) 303 -7164
Managing Partner
Freehold, NJ
07728, USA
www.neilaburns.com
neil@neilaburns.com
July 20, 2011
Location: Freehold, NJ
REED BUSINESS INFORMATION LTD. (RBI) OF THE UK AND NEIL A. BURNS LLC OF THE USA HAVE ENTERED INTO A LONG-TERM AGREEMENT TO CO-PRODUCE CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS IN THE FIELD OF SURFACTANTS.
The conferences and seminars will be held globally in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The first event as part of this agreement will be the First ICIS Asian Surfactant Conference to be held at the Intercontinental Hotel, Singapore on November 10th and 11th 2011. Further information and registration is available at www.icis.com/asiansurfactants
The agreement follows the two companies’ successful collaboration on the First ICIS World Surfactant Conference in New York in May 2011. The conference attracted over 150 senior managers from the surfactant industry with attendees and speakers representing companies such as AKZO, BASF, Church & Dwight, Colgate, Croda, Dow, Ecolab, Johnson &Johnson, Kao, LG, PQ, P&G, Reckitt Benckiser, Rhodia, SC Johnson, Stepan, and many others.
RBI, via their ICIS subsidiary, has an existing successful business holding conferences and training courses globally in many chemical areas including petrochemicals, oleochemicals, and base-oils. The company notes that the agreement with Neil A. Burns LLC enables them to expand their conference activities into a new key market with significant global potential.
Neil Burns, whose company Neil A Burns LLC has an existing business providing advisory and investment services in specialty chemicals with a particular focus on the surfactant value chain, will play a key role at the surfactant events as chair and/or speaker. Regarding the upcoming Asian conference, he states, "Due to the success of the first ICIS World Surfactant Conference in New York, earlier this year, we have been asked by many industry players to bring the conference to Asia. We are excited to be holding this event in the middle of the fastest growing, most dynamic surfactant market in the world today."