Asia’s most influential surfactants event is back. The 11th ICIS Asian Surfactants Conference, co-produced by Neil A. Burns, will take place on 13–14 November 2025 in Kuala Lumpur, with the Surfactant Business Essentials Course on 12 November.

As Asia takes center stage in global surfactant production and consumption, this must-attend event brings together senior leaders, innovators, and strategists from across the value chain. With regional overcapacity, shifting trade flows, tariff pressures, and tightening regulations disrupting the market, surfactant players are being called to rethink strategy, localize operations, and innovate faster than ever before.

The Conference offers high-impact networking with leading companies including Unilever, L'Oréal, Petronas, Sabic, KLK Oleo, Wilmar, and ExxonMobil. It also offers actionable insights into market-defining trends: geopolitics, sustainability, biosurfactants, feedstock substitution, and customer-driven formulation.

The confernce’s key themes includes; Regional Market Shifts, Trade Flows & Tariff Impacts; Application-Led Innovation & Sustainability Transitions and Surfactants & Feedstock Evolution.

This year’s conference is designed to give you real-time perspectives and practical tools to align with evolving customer needs and market conditions.