If WCCE10/ECCE11/ECAB4 is the mother of all Chemical Engineering (see our news item of 27 December) then certainly ACHEMA in Frankfurt must be called the mother of Chemical Engineering trade shows.

If WCCE10/ECCE11/ECAB4 is the mother of all Chemical Engineering (see our news item of 27 December) then certainly ACHEMA in Frankfurt must be called the mother of Chemical Engineering trade shows. Go there with your preliminary P&ID in hand and in one or two days you can have budget prices for all your equipment, from centrifugal pump with latest model variable speed drive to in-line breaking index monitors and from (micro) flow reactors to glass lined tanks. Block the dates in your calendar, it will be held next year from 11 - 15 June. You will not feel lonely: if the trend continues you will be one of a quarter million visitors!