Imperial Chemical Industries

Yeah, I think it tells us a lot.

I mean, I think if had you asked me this question five or 10 years ago, the focus would have been on the names that aren't around anymore.

The ICIs, DuPont, obviously that's a name that's still around, but it's much smaller than it was.

It's a little fraction of what it was.

the herx uh and you know buyer has you know except for ag is largely out of chemicals now but if we're keeping it to basic chemicals for now and petrochemicals is the rising influence and dare i say we have really china's coming to dominate the basic chemical sector um and you add in the in the middle east so clearly the state-owned players are continuing to expand and take on more share in basic and chemical basic chemicals petrochemicals and i think that continues i think the interesting element there is what that means for the u.s and the europe i think u.s is because of the ethane advantage is somewhat insulated here.

I remember controls.

And in fact, my big exposure into controls goes back to my time working in chemical industry, in ICI.

And this was in the days before ERP.

And we had a development team who were hand coding our corporate accounting system.

Not back then.

Not in this would be the late 1990s.

I was internal audit in ICI and our job was to make sure that the controls were built into the system.

And we had these big workshops that would go around.

There's also a rise in breast cancer.

And just to show you where we're going here Breast Cancer Awareness Month was started by a chemical processing plant called Imperial Chemical Industries.

Imperial Chemical Industries started Breast Cancer Awareness Month after studies were released linking microplastics as a cause for breast cancer.

Okay, so what does PR do when they learn that their products are causing cancer illness? They start a movement.

Okay? This is exactly what happened to the Susan G.

Um, he's al-he's also been accused of being a bully, um, in his business style.

The late businessman Sir John Harvey-Jones, used to run ICI, a, a big UK company once upon a time, said of him, "I never liked Alan.

I always thought he was a bully.

I watch his program with horror." Still watches it, though.

It's a weird word.

The tween designation is a trademark originally registered by Imperial Chemical Industries for a series of surfactants.

Wow.

Oh, a tween is...