Purchasing - June 4, 1998
Features
Domestic demand for flavors and fragrances continues to sizzle
Domestic demand for flavors and fragrances continues to sizzle. Consumption is expected to rise 7.3%/yr to almost $5 billion in 2002, according to The Freedonia Group, Cleveland, Ohio. This growth will be driven by new applications and higher loads.
- Automotive/OEM
- BUYLINES
- WHO'S NEWS
- WHO'S NEWS
- Buying in the world of high tech
- WHO'S NEWS
- Our commitment to readers is now stronger than ever
- Companies tap buyers formuch more than sourcing
- WHO'S NEWS
- NAPM Conference
- Rich outlines objectives forfor his year at the helm
- On the show floor: Buying tools that enable strategy
- MRO Buyers Group plansconference in August
- Garcia takes the Shipman
- Inflation--Why we won't see much of it this year or next
- NAPM conference
- PMs show optimism for '98
- CPI Edition
- CAPACITY CHANGES
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- Corporate Changes
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- PRICE CHANGES
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- Corporate Changes
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- Corporate Changes
- Buyer's News
- Biggest buying problems:
- Items in short supply:
- Glycerine prices stay steady
- Chemforecast
- Prices hinge on availibility
- Chemical Transaction Prices
- Leadtimes
- Purchasing transaction price survey results
- Polymer Resins
- Chemical price slide takes index lower
- Citric Acid
- Uncertainty muddies quiet market
- EQUIPMENT MARKET REVIEW
- Membrane filtrationdemand is booming
- Food & Beverage
- At Hershey Foods-- Purchasing restructures to tap full supply value
- Rhodia's key to success: supplier relations
- INDUSTRIAL GASES
- Distributor programcan cut costs
- METHANOL
- Oversupply depresses prices
- POLYVINYL CHLORIDE
- Lower exports boost supply
- STEEL DRUMS
- Competition keeps tags stable and boosts services
- HOTLINE
- TRANSACTION PRICES
- Economy
- Economic growth remained moderate to strong in March and April
- Economic slowdown or labor supply bottleneck?
- Manufacturing productivity growth screeched to a near-halt in first-quarter 1998
- Job insecurity is no myth
- To file your Crystal Ball Entry electronically
- Markets
- PetroFina and basf are teaming up to build the world's largest naphtha steam cracker in the U.S.
- Metal furniture shipments by domestic producers rose 15% last year
- The Viking Voyageur pipeline is likely to be canceled
- Manufactured furniture sales will rise 6%-7% this year
- Major airlines will need to buy 13,600 new aircraft worth $1.2 trillion over the next 20 years
- Chlor-alkali plant operating rates have been declining with the fall off in
- Despite the dampening effect of Asia's economic troubles, world aluminum consumption will re-sume a 3%-5% annual average growth
- IBM has unveiled a new version of its RS/6000 SP computer with a 333 Mhz microprocessor
- The railroad industry could falter in coming years without higher rates or "significant investment"
- The American Plastics Council is establishing an automotive center in Troy, Mich.
- Companies that clean up the environment have fallen on hard times
- Expect to see a big supply push from Hewlett-Packard on notebook computers
- "Asian flu" hits Jeep
- Sales of low-priced personal computers pushed up total PC shipments by 15%
- Air Products and Chemicals has purchased Solvay America's Solkatronic Chemicals
- Prices
- Tags for 2,6-dimethyl naphthalenedicarboxylate (NDC) will slip from $1.60/lb to $1.25 or lower
- Spot titanium mill product prices will be flat all year
- The "asphalt season" has boosted demand for residual fuels on the West Coast
- Compaq Computer has sliced 20% off server prices
- Producers claim that pulp price hikes have fallen into place, but buyers tell a different story
- Natural-gas prices are stuck in an early-year lull
- The long-anticipated "Far East fare wars" have begun
- Gateway has become the first personal-computer maker to cut prices on notebooks
- Spot-market tags for high-carbon ferrochrome will rise no higher than 50(cent)/lb by year-end
- Cambridge Lee Industries is reducing sale prices on plumbing tube by 2.5%
- Northwestern Steel & Wire is leading with an increase of $20/ton
- Prices for oil-country tubular goods have been slipping
- The average gold price should rise to $350 in 1999
- Some aluminum mills are trying to set and then raise list prices
- Specialty chemical provider Cytec Industries expects prices for acrylonitrile to remain below 1997 levels
- World raw-material prices are expected to rise only slightly through year-end
- Low-priced imports are cutting second-quarter market prices for stainless steel plate
- Fujitsu Mass Storage is marketing a series of low-priced magneto-optical drives
- NEC Technologies has dropped prices on two monitors
- The market has rejected a proposed $40/metric ton price hike for 30 lb newsprint
- Steel sheet suppliers remain convinced that strong demand and long leadtimes
- Despite strong domestic demand in the U.S., commodity chemical prices in the U.S. continue to be negatively impacted
- Hotline
- Don't rule out more rail problems in the West this summer
- ...Also lend an ear to the growing impatience with rail service by key shippers
- Pay special attention to declines in softwood and hardwood sulfate pulp tags
- Watch industrial organic chemical tags closely for signs of weakness this quarter
- Is your MRO buying strategic--or do you just wing it? Unfortunately many buyers do just that and are literally costing their companies millions
- --But don't expect to see much in the way of further price declines in world petroleum prices
- Understanding data and the sophisticated methods used to produce business forecasts will be vital to your career in supply management
- Don't forget to visit Purchasing's Web site
- Don't be surprised to see even more cuts on shipping container rates in the North Atlantic
- Two semiconductor companies will have access to Digital Equipment Corp.'s Alpha microprocessor technology
- Count on a second-half inflation rate of just around 2%
- Pay special attention to declines in softwood and hardwood sulfate pulp tags
- Continue to search downstream for price leverage among products that have experienced lower costs as the result of refined petroleum price weakness
- Watch glass container prices closely over the next three to six months
- Expect osha to continue its tough plant inspection program
- Keep an eye on import prices
- Discount much of the talk about a new round of "unfair trade practices."
- Be prepared for slightly higher electric rates this summer
- INSIDE PURCHASING
- METALS
- NEWS
- Prices stable, buyers building inventories
- Cheap steel from Asia may be on the way
- News
- Japanese steel exec hopeful on early recovery
- Ball gets Reynolds cans
- Reynolds plans to boost smelting
- CHIPS
- Automotive is key to magnesium demand
- Laser may expand gallium use
- Rio Algom unit grabs Ideal Metals
- GM delays new steel megacenters
- Northwestern, Bayou merger off
- CHIPS FROM ABROAD
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- CHIPS FROM ABROAD
- CHIPS
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- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS FROM ABROAD
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- Steel-center shipments stay strong
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS FROM ABROAD
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- IISI lowers steel forecast
- CHIPS
- STEEL PLATE & STRUCTURALS MARKET
- Tight supplies worry buyers
- Metals
- Steel Plate & Structurals Market
- Stainless plate market in disarray; mills blame imports, file trade suits
- PART II
- PRODUCT UPDATE
- FHP MOTORS
- Mixed demand yields unclear price picture
- PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
- Product Update
- FHP Motors
- Software measures motor efficiency
- RECYCLING RESOURCES
- STRATEGIES
- MRO BUYING REPORT
- Purchasing forges newsupplier relationships
- SUPPLY INSIGHTS
- Strategies
- Procurement Cards
- Card use is springboard for new supply strategy
- TRANSPORTATION
- NEWS
- Is the UP back on track?
- News
- Ocean reform ready to set sail--again
- Delta and United to align passenger, cargo networks
- Trans-Pacific cargoes are bargains no more
- Sched Net puts ocean shipping on the Web
- Railroads team for East Coast intermodal service
- Con-Way ties regions together for coast-to-coast service
- Truckload Report
- Healthy industry grapples with old problems
- Transportation
- Truckload Report
- What buyers need to sort out
- automotive/oem
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