Purchasing - February 12, 1998
Features
There's a bit of discounting in cut-size office paper
There's a bit of discounting in cut-size office paper (reprographic bond) as mills see a seasonal slowdown in orders. However, an early-year pickup in bookings may lead to price inflation ahead.
- AUTOMOTIVE/OEM
- BUYING ENERGY
- BUYLINES
- Nuts-and-bolts guidelines
- Delta preps non-IT suppliers for Year 2000
- GRASS ROOTS REPORT
- For many buyers 'effective leadtimes' are what matter
- MILLENNIUM BUG
- Year 2000: Are you ready? Are your suppliers ready?
- Purchasing Online
- Purchasing Online aims high in 1998
- CHEMFORECAST
- CPI EDITION
- Expect more balanced supply/demand
- CPI Edition
- BENZENE
- Balanced market softens prices
- Buyer's News
- Dow's new pricing policy gets mixed reviews
- CORPORATE CHANGES
- CORPORATE CHANGES
- OSHA regs delayed again
- CORPORATE CHANGES
- CORPORATE CHANGES
- Tags set to weaken
- CORPORATE CHANGES
- The effects of industry consolidation
- Tags won't rise much
- CORPORATE CHANGES
- NACDEF changes name, broadens scope
- CORPORATE CHANGES
- CORPORATE CHANGES
- Capacity Changes
- CAPACITY CHANGES
- CAPACITY CHANGES
- CAPACITY CHANGES
- CAPACITY CHANGES
- CAPACITY CHANGES
- CAPACITY CHANGES
- Chemical Transaction Prices
- Polymer resins
- Chemical prices start '98 flat or softening
- Quality
- NOT THERE YET!
- Computers, Business Systems and Office Products
- Copier Buyer Bill Of Rights
- BRIEFS
- Sharp introduceshigh-volume copier
- Canon expands memory on laser facsimile systems
- MARKETPLACE
- Demand rise will nudge prices
- PC SOURCING STRATEGIES
- A national agreement for PCs reduces buying costs
- PURCHASING NOTES
- Purchasing Notes
- Purchasing Notes
- Purchasing Notes
- Purchasing Notes
- Purchasing Notes
- Purchasing Notes
- Purchasing Notes
- SOURCING STRATEGIES
- To cut copier costs, benchmark suppliers
- Electronics Purchasing
- Chip makers move to .25 micron technology
- Chip market grew 5.5% in 1997
- Digital processors: More functionality at a lower price
- ELECTRONIC BUYING CONDITIONS
- Buyers increase order volumes, but prices are staying put
- ELECTRONICS BRIEFS
- USB keyboard unveiled
- Optoelectronics sees 10% growth
- Intel cuts Pentium II-233 tags
- Electronic Buying Conditions
- Cap prices drop
- Product Update
- Lithium ion cells dominate rechargeable market
- Purchasing Strategy
- Tektronix taps distributor savvy
- HOTLINE
- Don't be surprised to see titanium alloy shortages on the West Coast drag into next summer
- Expect demand growth for pulp mill products to tail off from 1997's relatively high rate of 5.3%
- Look for new delivery confirmation service from the Post Office
- Expect world propylene prices to fall substantially over the next four years--by as much as 4cents/lb
- Anticipate a big pick-up in steel dumping suits this year
- Don't be too surprised to see more price cutting on liquid crystal displays (LCDs)
- Watch caustic soda market
- Anticipate that the dollar will continue to strengthen over the next several months
- Need to learn the latest trends in semiconductors and electronic commerce?
- Expect communications equipment makers to increase use of srams
- How does the design-procurement connection work in your company?
- Meanwhile, keep an eye on the growing opposition of shippers in the Pacific to signing conference-wide contracts
- Quality is the most important factor when purchasers buy drams, srams, and other memory ICs
- Disregard talk of dram shortages--for the foreseeable future
- Look for osha to issue new regulations this spring on worker exposure to chemicals(LCDs)
- Be prepared for more upward price movement on corrugated and solid fiber boxes
- Count on falling disk drive tags through at least the first half of the year
- Don't rule out further cuts in ocean container freight rates for cargo moving between U.S. East Coast and South America
- Be prepared to see development of another plastic resin pricing trough
- ECONOMY
- Here are some excerpts from the Fed's latest take on national economic conditions
- Talk about the deflation threat started in 1997
- Import prices fell 4.9% for the year ending December 1997
- Final PPI data is in for 1997
- Home builders are expressing extraordinary confidence
- Markets
- Canadian paper makers Cascades and Domtar have created the Montreal-based Norampac containerboard group
- Big Three auto makers plan little change in first-quarter North American production schedules
- Minorco of Luxembourg has shut its New York trading office
- Forty-three percent of U.S. households now have a personal computer
- Reynolds Metals is negotiating the sale of its global can business to Ball Corp.
- After completing its $285 million purchase of the Boston-New York-Washington shuttle
- U.S. sales of cars and light trucks are expected to drop 2%
- Offshore oil/gas drilling has increased by 30% since 1994
- PC sales growth could slip
- Wellman will expand its domestic PET packaging resin capacity by 250 million lb/year
- Production of paper and paperboard through October 1997 totaled 75.1 million tons
- The Asian economic mess has analysts questioning the SIA's projected 17% climb in 1998 world semiconductor sales
- U.S. capacity growth for pulp, paper, and paperboard is expected to fall below historic norms
- Ford Motor Co., German automaker Daimler-Benz, and Canadian fuel-cell developer Ballard Power Systems will spend $420 million
- Alcoa has called off its proposed purchase of an Alabama aluminum sheet rolling mill
- World demand for fluoropolymers rose to 71,000 tons last year
- Corrugated box shipments through November registered a 2.9% advance
- Since Asia accounts for 54% of global semiconductor capital expenditures
- Natural gas supplies will be adequate and cheap this winter
- Demand is sizzling in the highly competitive market for aluminized sheet steel
- Prices
- The average price of unleaded gasoline closed 1997 at $1.22/gallon
- North American pulp buyers are lobbying for a $30-$40/metric ton decrease in transaction prices
- BHP, the world's second largest copper producer, expects cathode prices to stay low
- Intel will continue its aggressive Pentium II price-cutting program
- Price-cutting remains rampant throughout the computer disk-drive market
- Watch for more increases in cold-finished steel bars
- Tool & die steel producers are looking for a 3% hike on specialty grades this month
- Market prices for glycerine will continue to slide in 1998
- Softwood pulp will fall to $550/metric ton in early 1998
- opec recently raised its production cap to almost 28 million barrels/day
- Wolverine Tube wants to raise strip, rod, and bar product prices this month by 4%-5%
- INSIDE PURCHASING
- METALS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- China's steel industry needs work
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- Mini-mill switches energy source
- Steelmakers get research help from Energy
- CHIPS
- Platinum metals demand growth will slow globally
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- ELECTRIC FURNACE STEELMAKING
- Flexing market muscle with low-cost flat-rolled
- Electric Furnace Steelmaking
- Added supply has pushed sheet prices down
- Steel "roadmap" includes electrics
- NEWS
- Chips from Abroad
- Chips from Abroad
- Buyers wary, few plan to buy much
- Chips from Abroad
- UN study sees no scrap supply woes
- Titanium supply may be a problem in '99
- Chips from Abroad
- Chips from Abroad
- Chips from Abroad
- Russian aluminum output grows slightly
- Chips from Abroad
- Chips from Abroad
- Chips from Abroad
- Chips from Abroad
- Chips from Abroad
- News
- Palladium shortfall is possible
- Steel output reaches 16-year high
- Titanium golf heads will rebound
- Century chief blasts aluminum 'formula pricing'
- Bodine expands casting plant
- Aluminum analysts hold differing views on prices
- Jewelers bought big in 1997
- Aluminum smelting ends '97 at high rate
- China leads world steel again
- Brazil may take U.S. to trade court
- Steel bar and rod trade penalties set
- Specialty steel use aims for record
- Aluminum canstock is under siege
- Weirton improves on-time delivery
- Aerodyne Ulbrich offers machining
- Auto-aluminum alliance is in works
- METALS 1998 OUTLOOK
- Metals
- On the Internet
- PRODUCT UPDATE
- ENGINEERING PLASTICS
- Mixed demand keeps tags stable
- PURCHASING SOFTWARE NEWS
- Professional Profile
- Purchasing Software News
- RECYCLING RESOURCES
- SAE '98
- STRATEGIES
- SUPPLIERS
- Is partnering a SHAM?
- SUPPLY INSIGHTS
- TRANSPORTATION
- Transportation
- Supply Chain Management
- Skills for tomorrow
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