Sodium chlorate Factors Affecting Product Cost

  • Expect digital signal processor (DSP) tags to be volatile this year. The good news for buyers is that the average price will fall from about $5.97 at the beginning of the year to $5.69 at year end. According to market researcher IC Insights, much of the price erosion will be in low to mid-range DSP units used in cell phones, toys and consumer electronics equipment. See full story starting on page 17 of this issue.

  • Purchasingdata.com says sodium chlorate recently slipped to $412/ton after months at $415, but analyst Gerry Hannochko at Canaccord Capital Corp. believes improved demand will boost prices 3% this year. He also forecasts "little price improvements" for sulphuric acid, liquid sulfur dioxide and sodium hydrosulphite.

  • Corporate travel managers expect hotel prices and airfares to remain flat during 2004, which should help rekindle business travel. Nearly three in four participants in the survey by the National Business Travel Association believe that business travel will rebound significantly this year.

  • Chief executive Jan Johansson of Boliden, the European mining and smelting company, expects base metals prices to rise as world inventories are running low and demand continues to grow. "Copper inventories are beginning to be very low globally, for example," Johansson says. "In Europe, there's hardly anything left at all, and it's almost impossible to obtain any copper products unless you have a supply contract."

  • Alternative plastic materials "are becoming more attractive as copper alloy part prices keep climbing," says Joseph Gartland, vice president of H.M. Hillman Brass & Copper. The world copper price was 81ยข last year, but has risen to an average of $1.18 in the first two months of 2004. "What concerns me is that copper is pricing itself out of its own markets of utilities, containers, defense and automotive," says Gartland.

  • The European Union is investigating chipmakers for price-fixing of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips for computers and other electronic devices. European regulators are probing allegations that the world's biggest computer memory chip companies colluded over prices and output. The investigation mirrors a Department of Justice case targeting DRAM makers, widely believed to center on a claim of price-fixing, launched in 2002

 

Relatived News

  • Hydrogen Peroxide Project Opening Ceremony is holding in HHH chemical

  • Sodium Chlorate Consumption Structure Starts Changing in global market

  • World Capacity Expansion in the Biggest Chlorate Production Base

  • Price drop of sodium chlorate caused by abnormal S/D relationship

  • New opportunities for sodium chlorate producers in 2009 world market

  • Sodium Chlorate producers price capacity market demand outlook

  • Qinghai Chemical Group starts to construct sodium chlorate project.

  • Long way of energy conservation and pollutant reduction in inorganic sipcides

  • The production of chloros solution from waste gas containing chlorine

  • Study on Stabilization of Sodium Hypochlorite Aqueous Solution

  • International sodium chlorate manufacturing and equipment technology

  • Determination of nitrate in sodium chlorite by HHH Chemical

  • Selection of Treatment Options for Sea Water Circulating Cooling Water

  • Production Technology and Market Analysis of Sodium Chlorate in China

  • Promising sodium chlorate industry in the 2009 world chemical Markets

  • Production and Development of Sodium Chlorate in HHH chemcial Co, Ltd.

  • Manufacture Technology and Market Analysis on Sodium Chlorate of China

  • Production Survey and Development Prospect of Sodium Chlorate

  • Research on Application of Sodium Hypochlorite in Living Water Station

  • Sterling Chemicals selects Georgia site for large-scale sodium chlorate plant

  • Jacobs to provide engineering for Sterling Pulp Chemicals' new sodium chlorate plant.

  • Canadian Occidental Petroleum announces acquisition of sodium chlorate plant in Quebec.

  • Sodium chlorate kills Salmonella, E. coli in livestock.

  • Nexen Chemical Selects Manitoba Site for Planned Increase in Sodium Chlorate Capacity.

  • Sodium chlorate prices continue up on tight supply and high costs

  • Sodium chlorate has inflated

  • Sodium chlorate Producer cutbacks add to upward price pressures

  • Sodium Chlorate Producers Have Begun to Announce price Increases

  • Regs drive pricing up through 2Q01

  • Tronox pushes price increases

  • Sodium chlorate Strong demand pressures prices

  • Sodium chlorate Market tightness catapults pricing

  • Sodium chlorate Alternative and specialty chemicals keep growing

  • Sodium chlorate Purchasing transaction price survey results

  • Sodium chlorate Factors Affecting Product Cost

  • Sodium chlorate prices continue up on tight supply and high costs