Purchasing - January 11, 2001
Features
DuPont sharpens contract/specialties buy
With a total annual purchasing spend in excess of $14 billion, DuPont Corp., based in Wilmington, Del., pays special attention to outsourcing and the application of best practices.
- 2001 SPECIALTY AND FINE CHEMICALS
- SPECIALTY AND FINE CHEMICALS
- Trends continue in maturing market
- AUTOMOTIVE/OEM
- BUYLINES
- Toyota courts the paper industry with new forklifts
- GRASSROOTS BUSINESS SURVEY
- Optimism wanes as buyers look to new year
- PURCHASING SURVEY
- Purchasing cards may get boost from Internet
- REGULATION WATCH
- Upcoming redistricting fights key to power for the decade
- CPI EDITION
- BUYERS NEWS
- Prices should firm up through second quarter 2001
- Buyers less optimistic
- What's Hot
- Growth comes from new applications
- Price and flexibility keep buyers loyal
- Rohm & Haas gets connected
- Prices rise rapidly, firm through June
- PRICE CHANGES
- Greif Bros. to acquire Van Leer
- CHEMICAL TRANSACTION PRICES
- Plastic Resins
- CHEMICAL TRANSACTION PRICES
- Index up slightly though polymer prices decline
- Chemforecast
- Buyers see continued firming prices
- LEADTIMES
- LEADTIMES
- SOAPS, DETERGENTS and PERSONAL CARE
- Specialty additives meet diversified demand
- Buyers' strategies shift to long term
- CPI EDITON
- SURFACTANTS MARKET UPDATE
- Prices level off as market shuffles
- FORECAST
- INSIDE PURCHASING
- LOGISTICS
- Logistics
- METALS
- ELECTRIC-FURNACE STEELMAKING
- Mini-mills: the trend toward small
- NEWS
- Canada initiates rebar steel dumping study
- PD looking to unload non-mining units
- ITC revokes some dumping duties, keeps others
- Industrial exposition scheduled
- GM to use steel processed in Mexico at Shiloh facility
- Canada Customs studies possible steel dumping
- Reliance units revamp service center facilities
- Platinum, palladium supplies short of demand
- Purchasing plans downgraded
- Copper charges set, zinc fees delayed
- Stainless plate plunges on soft demand
- Unhappy aluminum smelters ink BPA power deals
- Western nickel output rising
- GSX sets start date
- ISI won't dump Estonian steel on U.S. market
- Aluminum smelting cutbacks widening
- Dofasco plans to build Mexico tube mill
- CHIPS FROM ABROAD
- Automotive boosted rhodium demand
- Aluminum demand is weakening
- Metals
- WHAT'S HOT
- ELECTRIC-FURNACE STEELMAKING
- Buyers expect no supply problems
- PRODUCT UPDATE
- INTEGRAL and FRACTIONAL HORSEPOWER MOTORS
- Demand sputters as markets soften
- PURCHASING HOTLINE
- PURCHASING HOTLINE
- PURCHASING HOTLINE
- News and analysis for purchasing/supply chain
- PURCHASING HOTLINE
- PURCHASING SOFTWARE NEWS
- SUPPLY INSIGHTS
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