Purchasing - March 8, 2001

Uniforms are enjoying growing implementation, but expanding markets aren't boosting prices. Suppliers say demand is rising as uniforms and workwear appear in nontraditional markets.

• BUYLINES
• Grassroots Business Survey
• Slight silver lining emerges in buyers' business view
• PRODUCT UPDATE: GEARS
• Prices stall as demand slows

• CAREER DEVELOPMENT
• Tips for pros going up or out

• Cpi Edition
• BUYERS NEWS
• Market tightness catapults pricing
• What's Hot
• Steel drum pricing, demand softens
• PROPYLENE
• Supply and weak demand force prices down

• High-Tech Plastics
• Buell blasts off with molded-in color

• INSIDE PURCHASING
• Stallkamp reminds us of the buying basics

• LOGISTICS
• BRIEFS

• Logistics
• Exchanges must move beyond spot buy
• What's Hot

• METALS
• News
• Metals industry jolted by electricity crisis
• Where's aluminum demand going?
• CHIPS
• Slowing manufacturing growth worries metals traders
• Automotive steel sheet alliances abound
• Sheet Steel
• Stainless prices are feeble, too

• Metals
• Sheet Steel
• WHAT'S HOT
• How Low can prices go?

• PRODUCT UPDATE
• Elastomers
• Supply-side pressure grows while demand matures

• PURCHASING HOTLINE
• PURCHASING HOTLINE
• PURCHASING HOTLINE
• PURCHASING HOTLINE

• Petrochemicals
• Outlook
• Prices will fall with energy costs

• Steel Pipe and Tube
• Energy goods support sales
• Mechanical Tubing
• Flat sales weaken pricing
• Oil Country Tubular Goods
• Drilling rate boosts demand
• Structural Pipe and Tube
• No demand surge in 2001

• The New Automotive Buy
• Covisint
• What is Covisint
• Exclusive Interview: Thomas Stallkamp
• Business down? Reinvent purchasing
• Ford
• Ford Shakes Up Its Steel buy