Purchasing - May 6, 1999
Features
The battered and bruised paper industry has budgeted $9.1 billion
The battered and bruised paper industry has budgeted $9.1 billion in capital expenditures this year, according to the Commerce Department. The figure represents a mere 1% increase over the $9 billion spent on new plants and equipment last year.
- AUTOMOTIVE/OEM
- BUYING ENERGY
- TECHNOLOGY SPOTLIGHT
- Advanced metering waits in wings
- BUYLINES
- Keeping up with Purchasing Online
- Consultant to CEOs: Pay heed to purchasing!
- Air Force pushes its supplier development program forward
- DOT pushes for nationalintelligent transport system
- GRASSROOTS BUSINESS SURVEY
- Buyers are more cautious, even as prices remain low
- JIT II PROGRAMS
- Structuring an in-plant representative's job
- MURRAY'S LAW
- A primer on product liability laws
- NEGOTIATION PERSPECTIVE
- The art of win-win negotiations
- REGULATION WATCH
- OSHA clarifies standardson who must pay for PPE
- SUPPLY CONDITIONS
- U.S. capacity overhangmakes for fast deliveries
- WASHINGTON PERSPECTIVE
- Keeping trade secrets secret:counterspies, codes, courts
- Buylines
- UNIFORMS & WORKWEAR
- Expect supplies to stay stable this year
- CAREER DEVELOPMENT
- CPI EDITION
- The Top 100 Chemical Distributors
- TOP 100 CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS
- BUYER'S NEWS
- Supply remains good, price increases slow
- CHEMFORECAST
- Prices will stabilize through year-end
- CHEMICAL TRANSACTION PRICES
- Purchasing transaction price survey results
- Chemical Transaction Prices
- Leadtimes
- Chemical Transaction Prices
- Price index slips again
- Plastic resin prices
- CPI Edition
- BUYER'S NEWS
- Buyers can expect soft pricing all year
- Buyer's News
- Oversupply keeps prices low
- Prices flat through rest of year
- Prices bottom out, will rise through '99
- Container managementservices on the rise
- Attention, chemical buyers!
- CEF offers new guides
- PRICE INCREASES
- PRICE INCREASES
- Prices inch toward recovery
- CAPACITY CHANGES
- Eastman Chemical
- Chevron Chemical
- PPG Industries
- DISTRIBUTION 1999
- Distributors are an important metals source
- Are distributors going the extra mile?
- It's not my job!
- CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTION
- Buyers laud regionals,but want more help
- ELECTRONICS DISTRIBUTION
- Value-added services help buyers meet supply goals
- METALS DISTRIBUTION
- Buyers ask service centers: 'What happened to JIT?'... and a few other things
- WHERE E-COMMERCE FITS
- Look at the system first--then bring on the tools!
- INSIDE PURCHASING
- METALS
- Steel service center shipments OK, not great
- Aluminum Outlook 2000 scheduled for September 9
- NEWS
- Coppermetals distributors eye future with caution
- News
- Copper woes claim another victim
- Duties set on stainless plate imports
- METALS CHIPS
- Zinc surplus pressures prices
- Analysts see no nonferrous metals price inflation ahead
- METALS CHIPS
- Slack steel slows DRI consumption growth
- Eurofer filesplate trade complaint
- Bessie sells stainless sheet units
- Qualitech shops itself
- Zinc depends on alliances
- METALS CHIPS
- A-L becomes full-line titanium supplier
- Is Europe insulated from trade woes?
- Korea says exports to U.S. will fall
- Imports slow long-products price rise
- Forecaster affirms world steel slump forecast
- Republic looks to Japan for technical aid
- METALS CHIPS
- Brass exec talks 'value added' from marketing perspective
- METALS CHIPS
- METALS CHIPS
- Buyer optimism is down, but prices remain low
- METALS CHIPS
- New uses could buoy ruthenium price tags
- U.S. continues steel plate inquiry
- METALS CHIPS
- METALS CHIPS
- Canadian tube makers challenge import duties
- Wheel-Pitt settles with four traders
- China is overproducing aluminum ingot
- SHEET STEEL
- Bumpy year ahead for buyers
- Metals
- Top 100 Metal Service Centers
- Sheet Metal
- Flat-rolled products dominate the steel market
- TOP 100 METAL SERVICE CENTERS
- The big keep getting BIGGER
- PRODUCT UPDATE
- INDUSTRIAL VALVES
- Prices inch up, but supplies are good
- PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
- PURCHASING HOTLINE
- Expect gasoline prices to rise in next month or so
- But trans-Pacific shippers may look at ways to minimize rate increase, especially $300 surcharge.
- Count on more attempts by steel mills to raise prices.
- Plan on 6% increase in health-care costs this year.
- Hotel room rates will rise about 5% this year.
- If you're a purchasing pro in the chemical process industries (CPI), don't miss our book,
- Want to help keep health-care costs down?
- Is your MRO buying strategic--or do you just wing it?
- Other methods for minimizing health-care costs:
- Don't worry about methanol prices; they'll stay low,
- Don't expect increased shipping capacity to lower trans-Pacific rates.
- Longer term, expect gasoline prices to go back down.
- Economy
- Consumer confidence edged up again in March, gaining a point from February
- Manufacturing cost structures are generally falling
- While economic optimism continues to ride high, it's difficult to pinpoint the trend in U.S. corporate profits.
- Visit Purchasing Online (www.purchasing.com) to enter Purchasing's 1999 Crystal Ball
- The "emerging markets" economic crisis will be more severe and prolonged than originally thought
- There's a growing body of evidence that manufacturing may be pulling out of its late-1998 slump.
- Markets
- Americans bought a record number of new cars and trucks between January-March
- Near-term sales of personal computers could grind to a halt as companies ponder ways to combat the so-called millennium computer bug.
- The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. recently dropped below 500
- DSC Ltd., owner of the former McLouth Steel mill in Michigan, wants to install new equipment
- By June, Copperweld plans full commercial production at its new stainless steel tubing plant
- The digital cellular telephone market has high-growth potential
- World airports handled more than 2.8 billion passengers last year, an increase of 2.9%
- Consumer publications have been hyping home computer networks
- Jeff Mallett, president of Yahoo!, says three companies will dominate the Internet by the end of next year
- The lead-acid battery industry shuttered 21 manufacturing plants while boosting battery shipments
- An alloy based on silicon carbide and germanium could lead to faster semiconductor chips that can withstand higher temperatures
- Global shipments of semiconductor manufacturing equipment fell 21% last year due to the Asian demand slowdown
- Industrial Rubber Products of Hibbing, Minn., has moved into new synthetic rubber markets
- Prices
- The Energy Information Administration (EIA) now sees a sustained uptrend in global crude oil prices
- Mini-mills, led by North Star Steel and Nucor, are seeking a $15/ton hike
- Georgia-Pacific plans to raise fluff pulp by $30/metric ton
- Vincent Industrial Plastics is expanding injection molding capacity
- Primary copper prices probably have reached bottom, and should soon commence a rise
- Compaq Computer sees no immediate end to PC price slashing
- Dell Computer wants to expand its presence in the low-cost desktop-computer market
- Heavy imports of cheap concrete reinforcing bar have sent prices skidding to $285/ton
- Seasonal demand growth, opec cuts in crude-oil production, and major refinery problems
- Allegheny Ludlum plans to become a full-line supplier of titanium mill products
- Domestic suppliers of coated printing paper "continue to be challenged by an extremely price-sensitive market
- Prices of metals and minerals will fall 10.3% this year
- The continued boom in home and office building has allowed makers of construction materials to boost prices
- With tight seat capacity and strong demand, several major airlines tried--but failed to obtain
- Nucor has proposed a $20/ton sheet price hike
- Purchasing Hotline
- Recycling Resources
- SUPPLY INSIGHTS
- TRANSPORTATION
- NEWS
- Railroad merger touted as 'pro-shipper'
- THIRD-PARTY LOGISTICS
- 3PLs see growth spurt
- Transportation
- News
- Truck safety issues gain attention
- Third Party Logistics
- 3PLs deal with Y2K
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