By David Reed, UT EditorLondon-For those of you who celebrate Christmas, please accept best wishes from the entire staff at Crain Communications Ltd, publishers of Urethanes Technology magazine, still the world's foremost supplier of news and information on polyurethanes. For those who do not, we also wish you an enjoyable holiday season and, for everyone, we hope for a peaceful and prosperous New Year 2005.Some of our staff will be dragging themselves away from their desks over the next two weeks, so our coverage of the international news scene will be less complete than at other times of year. In any case, this is a quiet time of year for major news items, as many companies close to give their hard-working employees a well-deserved rest.Our team returns to full strength from Tuesday 3 Jan. so, from then on, we will resume full news coverage - so make sure we hear from you if your company has news of interrest to the world of polyurethanes."