Impressions of Achema

I first visited Achema some years ago, while I was working in Europe as an R&D project leader for a large, international chemical company. It was my first year living in the Netherlands on an expatriate assignment tram the U.S., and I, along with several of my engineering colleagues, set off on a roadtrip from the Netherlands to Frankfurt, Germany. All of my European colleagues seemed to be very familiar with Achema, but for me, it was my first exposure to this important event for the chemical process industries (CPI). I recall my first impressions of Achema - it was huge, larger than any trade fair I had previously attended. Even though I spent several days there, I remember thinking that there...