Purchasing - July 16, 1998
Features
Supply and pricing to remain stable
Despite a booming economy and rapid development of new uses for industrial gases, supply and demand in the North American industrial gas market appear to be in balance.
- AUTOMOTIVE/OEM
- NEWS
- Buyers get new roles but keep old tasks
- News
- Cooper, Visteon take aim at wiper market
- Textron expands fastener business
- Chrysler plugs electric vans
- Ford, Chrysler get kudos from drivers
- Automakers hungry for everything electronic
- Detroit nabs awards for plant, vehicle quality
- Lear to build seats in Russia
- Nissan to set up shop in U.S.
- BUYING ENERGY
- BUYLINES
- Linerboard prices go south,no rally expected this year
- Gain the edge with Purchasing Online
- Booming industry taxesskilled labor supply
- SOURCE FINDER
- Coming Up
- Morgan retires
- BUYING STRATEGY
- TCS details biggest buying hazards and opportunities
- TRENDSPOTTING
- Companies integrate risk management, appoint CROs
- CPI EDITION
- BUYER'S NEWS
- Biggest buying problems:
- CHEMFORECAST
- Tight supplies bolster prices
- CHEMICAL TRANSACTION PRICES
- Purchasing transaction price survey results
- CONTAINERS/BULK HANDLING
- Radical shift in IBC use
- Chemical Transaction Prices
- Buyers market keeps on chugging.
- Falling tags drag index down 3.6 points
- Containers/Bulk Handling
- FIBCs: Imports and niche markets
- Drum industry consolidates, builds on strengths
- Plastic drums continue push
- Steel drums' strong grip
- Bulk packaging prices: Good news for buyers
- RISK MANAGEMENT
- Hedging Your Bets
- Risk Management
- Hedging in pulp, paper, and paperboard
- A hedging primer
- CPI Edition
- Price Changes
- Price Changes
- Price Changes
- Price Changes
- Price Changes
- Price Changes
- Price Changes
- Price Changes
- PRICE CHANGES
- ACETONE
- Prices will slide--but by how much?
- Buyer's News
- Anhydrous tags remain stable
- Capacity Changes
- New technology, customer needs alter demand
- Items in short supply:
- Corporate Changes
- Capacity Changes
- CAPACITY CHANGES
- Prices stabilize after dropping 5(cent)/lb
- High-performance, cost-effective traits boost demand
- Capacity Changes
- Capacity Changes
- NACD announces this year's award winners
- Corporate Changes
- The next advances in bulk packaging and shipping
- Capacity Changes
- Stable market keeps price tags in check
- CORPORATE CHANGES
- New strategies focus oninvestors and customers
- Capacity Changes
- Corporate Changes
- Capacity Changes
- Capacity Changes
- Sodium bicarbonate will stay flat before dropping a bit
- Upward price movement is coming to an end
- Capacity Changes
- Chemical Transaction Prices
- Leadtimes
- Polycarbonate
- Solvent Reformation
- Alternative product demand soars
- Computers, Business Systems and office Products
- Buyers' guide to software for purchasing
- BRIEFS
- Xerox aligns with suppliers to lower cost of new copiers
- MARKETPLACE
- Notebook prices keep falling
- PURCHASING FOR PROFIT
- Delta pools phonebuy--with a twist
- PURCHASING NOTES
- Gateway has introduced a new PC for corporate buyers priced at less than $1,000
- Purchasing Notes
- Business Products Industry Assn. (bpia)
- It's been 20 years (and 1 million customers) since Pitney Bowes first introduced remote meter resetting technology
- Recognized for its outstanding sales and service programs and for its commitment to preparing for future technologies, Lewan & Associates
- Moore U.S.A. hits the road in the next few months to show corporate buyers how document management can help streamline processes
- Office Depot and Viking Office Products have announced that the two companies are merging.
- Staples Business Advantage has opened a sales and service office in Houston
- Electronics Purchasing
- Merced gets delayed
- Hitachi increases memory-card density
- DRAMs move from EDO to synchronous
- Intel cuts MPU tags
- Novellus to ship copper chip making equipment
- Healthy demand forecast forpower supplies
- Chip sales to drop this year
- Compaq remains number one
- Strong demand, weak prices for flash
- Electronics Prices
- Slow growth forecast for PCs in second quarter
- ELECTRONIC BUYING CONDITIONS
- More buyers report prices fall
- ELECTRONICS BRIEFS
- AMD intros new K6
- Electronic Buying Conditions
- Component prices fall
- Electronics Briefs
- Toshiba ships RDRAM samples
- Arrow, Molex pen agreement
- SRAMS: a smaller, more stable market
- New DVDs ship
- NEC invests in new fab
- MEMORY REPORT
- DRAM market: It's beautiful to buyers
- HOTLINE
- Get up to speed on the Internet
- Discount talk of dram supplier shrinkage. Number of suppliers will remain relatively stable
- Where's the best place to work?
- Is your company using pirated software?
- Do you know how your company's transportation buy affects other supply management strategies?
- Expect Intel to continue its aggressive price cutting despite FTC charges of possible anti-trust violations in the way it competes on the semiconductor market.
- Don't get too excited about fuel prices for summer and fall months
- Look for overall industrial prices to remain stable throughout the summer months.
- Despite release delays of "Merced," Intel's next-generation microprocessor, company is aggressively releasing faster, more powerful versions of Pentium II
- Keep an eye on connector market
- TRANSACTION PRICES
- Economy
- Purchasing's diffusion index tracking general price trends for common industrial supplies and raw materials
- The U.S. balance of payments deficit swelled
- It might pay to know which U.S. OEMs sell heavily into South Korea, Thailand, and Indonesia
- While the pack may be straying toward inflation anxiety
- While a ballooning trade deficit hounds the economic horizon
- GDP estimate jumps
- Markets
- Beryllium Component Technology, a supplier of Russian-made advanced technology beryllium metal components
- U.S. paper production is reflecting monthly fluctuations in demand but the long-term trend is heading lower
- Toagosei Co., a Japanese maker of organic and inorganic chemicals
- Graphic Packaging, a subsidiary of ACX Technologies, will spend $35 million
- Nissan Motor Co., Japan's second largest automaker, is preparing to move 2000 or 2001 production of its Maxima sedans to a plant in Smyrna
- Boeing, Airbus, and U.S. Fairchild Aerospace are each developing 100-seat jet aircraft
- Oil giant Atlantic Richfield of Los Angeles is selling its Arco Chemical division
- Meeting notices
- This summer, Amcast Industrial will permanently close its brass products plant
- Electric-furnace steel producers in the Kanto region of Japan
- Buyers of citric acid products will see some changes in supply
- Lead acid battery maker Exide intends to form a battery-charger
- Sony is halting production of static random access memory chips (srams)
- The Valve Manufacturers Association is cautious about sales in 1998
- Abitibi-Consolidated of Montreal plans to spend more than $90 million
- World trade is expected to slow only 2%-3% from 1998
- Motorola will invest $750 million in Teledesic to help build
- Imco Recycling of Irving, Texas, became the largest producer of secondary zinc
- Phillips Petroleum Co. will build a petrochemical plant in Alberta, Canada
- Asimco Component Group of Beijing, an auto components maker, is expanding into the U.S. market
- Taiwan computer maker, Acer, says it will soon boost annual PC assembly
- Prices
- Copper cathode prices are expected to slip into a trading range of around 72.5-82.5(cent)/lb
- A 5% price increase on coated groundwood papers has been rescinded
- A 13-inch liquid crystal display that sold for $1,000 last year is priced at just over $400 today
- Buyers could see a third-quarter squeeze on lead supply in Europe
- Increased worldwide availability keeps domestic methanol tags soft
- Styrene tags remain soft
- Sales prices for zircon will hold at high levels
- Despite strong demand, "competitive market activity on pricing" has led polystyrene market leader
- Probe Economics, Millwood, N.Y., looks for petrochemical and polymer pricing to remain weak through 2002
- Benchmark softwood pulp prices, which now stand at about $550/metric ton, are expected to drift downward this summer
- Cheap Asian newsprint imports have started to land on the West Coast
- Plentiful supplies, high consumer inventories, cheap im-ports, and slowing demand will depress office white paper prices
- Buyers soon may see some good deals on laptop computers
- Prices are falling for flat glass products used to make liquid crystal displays in computers
- Spot market prices on nylon 6 and 6/6 grades have climbed an average of 6(cent)/lb in recent months
- Aluminum scrap prices remain in a pre-summer slump
- Market tags for commodity-grade acrylic have decreased by 3(cent)/lb since January
- Palladium prices could exceed $450/oz
- Lumber prices will continue to slump despite projected near-record housing completions this year
- Abundant supply plus a strike against General Motors assembly plants in Flint, Mich.
- Intel has cut sales prices by up to 20% on models of Pentium II microprocessors for desktop computers
- Western nickel markets will show a small surplus this year
- INSIDE PURCHASING
- Job scene
- METALS
- Specialty alloys find new uses in electronics, computers, appliances
- Plane makers are bullish on future demand
- Demand explosion moves titanium alloys supply from glut to scarcity
- Asian flu afflicts titanium golf heads
- Use of nickel superalloys and "super stainless" reaches new heights
- NEWS
- Availability better from distributors
- Buyers say HR sheet price tags will drop
- Negotiation Perspective
- Rudolf Wolff goes bearish on base metals
- News
- Update: Copper use set record
- Toyota expands U.S. truck assembly, steel needs
- Chips
- Chips from Abroad
- Chips from Abroad
- Chips
- Chips
- Armco starts work on stainless auto body
- Chips
- Chips
- Chips
- Chips from Abroad
- Chips from Abroad
- Chips from Abroad
- Chips
- Copper surplus could be half earlier estimates
- Chips
- New technology for cleaner steel surfaces
- Chips from Abroad
- Chips
- Chips
- Chips
- Chips
- Chips
- Chips from Abroad
- Chips from Abroad
- Supply woes continue for platinum group metals
- Chips
- Chips
- Chips from Abroad
- Chips
- MEETING NOTICE: Aluminum Outlook '99 will convene on Sept. 10
- Chips from Abroad
- Chips from Abroad
- Chips
- Chips
- Chips
- Chips
- Gold use rose 16% in '97
- Stainless firms want tariffs
- Chips
- Study group sees higher'98 lead and zinc output
- Chips
- Chips from Abroad
- Chips
- Asarco's Osborne remains a copper-eyed optimist
- Chips
- Chips from Abroad
- Alcoa, Alumax merger okayed, but--
- Chips
- Stainless imports at 26% share
- Chips
- Steel shipments to set record
- MEETING NOTICE: Steel Outlook '99 is slated for October 29
- CHIPS
- Chips from Abroad
- Chips
- Chips from Abroad
- China urged to boost steel quality
- Aluminum firms will split into makers of metals, parts
- Chips
- Chips
- Chips from Abroad
- Sumitomo develops new automotive sheet steel products
- Mining joins futuristic new-technologies program
- CHIPS FROM ABROAD
- SUPERALLOYS & SPECIALTY METALS
- Demand keeps soaring, leadtimes keep extending
- MRO/DISTRIBUTION
- ON THE INTERNET
- PRODUCT UPDATE
- BEARINGS MARKET REPORT
- Overall healthy demand boosts tags
- PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
- Purchasing Software News
- RECYCLING RESOURCES
- STRATEGIES
- SUPPLY INSIGHTS
- BUYING PLANS/PRICE EXPECTATIONS
- LEADTIMES
- Wood partitions and fixtures (SIC 2541)
- FORECASTS
- Leading index edges up
- Forecasts
- New export orders sag
- Leadtimes go lower
- STRATEGIC COST INSIGHTS
- Buying fixtures? Then negotiate!
- TRANSPORTATION
- NEWS
- U.S. has best handle on logistics costs, study says
- News
- Yellow bows out of regional market on East Coast
- More shipments to ride on Uncle Sam's railroad
- Vive l'Air France. Not so for Northwest.
- UP puts LTL division on block to pay for repairs
- SPECIAL REPORT
- Spotlight on Strategy
- TRANSPORTATION RATES '98
- New costs fuel truckload tags
- Air rates to continue rapid ascent
- Ocean carriers want big payback
- Rail tags to rise for most shippers
- LTL firms set for another price hike
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