...U.S. is the second largest importer of base metals after China (Indexmundi.com, 2013). It is the third largest exporter of base metals after China and Germany (Indexmundi.com, 2013). We can make the assumption that this makes U.S. a net importer of base metals. Base metals are mainly used as (a) input by manufactures producing consumer goods and (b) for infrastructure projects. They themselves are not demanded directly by consumers. If global prices of base metals were to go up, in theory, the U.S. will first see an impact on the "input" side of the economy (figure 7). Production costs will go up and producers will pass this one to the end consumer (P1 to P2). Raw material price increase will shock the supply to shift left (AS1 to AS2) and negative output gap increases (Y1-Y* to Y2-Y*). With increased prices, aggregate demand will go down. The AD curve will shift down (AD1 to AD2). This will result in a fall of real GDP, increase in the negative output gap (Y3-Y*) and prices may fall somewhat to P3. If there is no supply side change, typically, increases in the negative output gap will cause inflation to go down. The only time inflation increases with increasing negative output gap is when the AS curve shifts left and AD shifts down as well. To substantiate this, the following data has been presented as below, with main emphasis in the 2007-2008 periods: 1. Figure 8a (Research.stlouisfed.org, 2013 and Databank.worldbank.org, 2013) shows that from around 2008 the U...
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... Prepared by M. Hooper & P. Hooper. March 2005 The following materials have been authorised for use by students in this context, by Johnson Matthey. Some data is not current, and some is adapted to give a working document to allow completion of the assignment, To complete the assignment students must have access to detailed information about a company. This is often difficult to obtain, and the following information will provide exemplar material for the completion of the IVA. The information is based on the British Company – Johnson Matthey, one of the leading speciality chemicals companies in the world specialising in Catalysts, Precious Metals and Speciality chemicals. Johnson Matthey is a large multi-national company. There is a lot of information available on the various web-sites. The website reflect the divisional nature of the company. These notes will summarise the company structure, provide a guide to focus the students attention through the various divisions to the area of interest. The full company’s website is: http://www.matthey.com Links can be followed to the 'Catalysts' division website at: http://www.jmcatalysts.com then, to the 'Process Catalysts and Technologies'...
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...1, What are the key strategic issues that Avery needs to consider? What are his options? Avery got a few options regarding key strategic issues he needs to consider. He could grow the company and enter into other segments of the business. This segment would be the plastics containers that would have potential. Other option is whether to acquire Continental Can Canada or not. The company generates $400 million in sales per year and it is the largest manufacturer in the Canadian region. That does not seem a whole lot. However, Continental’s USA business has estimated revenues of $1.3 billion which would double the size of Crown’s domestic operations. Also, Continental’s European operations generated estimated sales of $1.5 billion. Potential bidders for the acquisition are the major competitors of CCS. Avery is concerned about both options because they both have pros and cons. Entering the plastic can business segment would have the following pros: • Entering a new business segment, great for diversification • Decreasing shipping cost because of lighter weight • Made of natural resources • Plastic material can easily be formed/shaped Entering the plastic business segment would have the following cons: • Unknown business territory, no experience • Carbonation leaks after 4 month – major issue • Cannot be fully recycled Acquiring Continental Can Canada would have the following pros: • Double in size domestically, increase market share rapidly • Plastic container line...
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...(626)443-8921 Experienced metal sorters and 10 scales to properly and efficiently weigh metals. Our large purchase volume allows us to be one of the few direct mill and foundry suppliers in the Southern California area. P&T Metals offers efficient professional industrial and commercial pickup service and provides all types of scrap metal storage containers, including roll off bins to our customers at no charge. With 45 years in the scrap recycling business. ALUMINUM Aluminum Clips & Solids Aluminum Turnings Extruded Aluminum | Painted Aluminum Cast Aluminum Aluminum Litho Plates | Aluminum Wheels Aluminum Radiators Aluminum Auto Part | INSULATED WIRE Power Cable House Wire Communication Wire | Romex Computer Wire C.A.T.V. Cable | Aluminum Wire Lead Wire | HIGH TEMP ALLOYS Alnico Hastalloy Haynes Inconel Invar Kovar | L-605 Mallory Maraging Molybdenum Monel Nickel | Rene Stellite Titanium Tungsten Alloys Tungsten Carbide Waspalloy | COPPER Bare Wire Burnt Wire Tubing | Motor Windings Sheet & Plate Turnings/Chips | Radiators Castings/Forgings | BRASS Yellow Brass Plumbing Brass Red Brass | Foundry Brass Clips Brass Turnings | Brass Radiators All types of Bronze | Sun-Lite Metals, Inc.2210 East 85th...
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...Disposal useful information and allocate task for all people | 1 week | Stage 3 | All members | Start to the report | 2 weeks | The aim of assignment is making strategies to expand BHP Billiton’s South Africa market. And we choose export aluminium to South Africa. The reason is that Aluminum is a widely used non-ferrous metal with demand driven by end use consumption in transportation, packaging, construction and household items. Meanwhile, South Africa is developing country and will need lots of aluminum to construct infrastructure. We can provide information about markets and industry trends in particular countries or regions, to assist in the development of investment plans, strategies or objectives. * We can make introductions to potential international partners, buyers and other in-market contacts. * We can supply referrals to service providers who can give you specialist advice, such as lawyers, business advisors and investment promotion agencies. * We can facilitate access to international governments and other relevant overseas decision-makers in the market. * We can advise about the process of establishing an overseas business. * We can offer ongoing support, including help in identifying market opportunities, tendering for...
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...Derek Debenham IS 4410 November 7, 2012 Tech article 4 A lab at MIT has taken inspiration from the humble earthworm for a new technology that could have huge applications in business and society in general. They have created a robot called “Meshworm” that looks like a writhing earthworm. The meshworm has a very simple design that is based on the centuries old principle that different metals expand at different rates when heated. A coil of nickel-titanium wire surrounds the Meshworm’s internal workings like a slinky, and the robot can apply current to create heat and deform the coil in multiple body segments. This allows the “wormbot” to move just like an earthworm. The meshworm can only travel a few millimeters per second but nothing seems to be able to slow it down. Researchers have bashed t with hammers, bent it, kicked it, and even doused it with water, all to no avail. Although it seems like a very small invention, the meshworm has caught the attention of everyone from Johns Hopkins to DARPA. DARPA is the US military’s advanced research arm, and it has expressed an interest in meshworm for reconnaissance and surveillance. The durable nickel-titanium design appeals to the military, and because it is so small it could go unnoticed while it wiggles through keyholes or lays invisible in any crack or crevasse. The Meshworm could have a huge impact on the medical industry. Medical engineers are already imagining the tenacious little robot navigating intestinal...
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...Marketing Management Report The Concept My concept is an end-to-end e-waste management company dedicated to environmental stewardship with advanced recycling technology, and to extract high quality metals by rendering innovative e-waste management solutions with fastest turn-around time from e-waste to economically viable metals. This company will solve and meet three critical needs: 1. It will give municipalities and companies a cost effective alternative to landfilling and rerouting the generated e-waste. 2. It will regularize the current fragmented e-waste management industry, which consists of collectors, recyclers, transporters, smelters etc and will provide end-to-end e-waste management solutions to produce economically viable metals. 3. It will use latest metal extraction and e-waste recycling technology to produce metals that will help to meet growing demand for environmentally viable metals. The recycled metals will be targeted towards electronics manufacturers, metal traders, and equipment manufacturers. Additionally, the company will offer a service to, e-waste storage and recycling plants by municipalities, sellers and manufacturers of EEE (electrical and electronic equipment). Currently, these municipalities and companies face several issues regarding the disposal of WEEE (waste electrical and electronic equipment). Landfills are filling up fast and current e-waste management solutions are not adequate to meet the ever increasing inflow of waste....
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...Quality Metal Service Centre lies in the metal distribution industry which is highly competitive and mature. There are fewer companies in this field than those in the retail business or service industry. Quality Metal Service Centre is in the middle of the value chain. They have two major responsibility areas, both internal and external. One issue identified with QSMC is that they have few suppliers to choose from as there only a certain number of metal mills available. With their corporate strategy to focus sales efforts on targeted markets of specialty metal users, they plan to introduce higher technology metals such as titanium however titanium is not readily available on the distributor market. This will not only further limit their selection of suppliers, it will also lose their previously stable base of customers if end user customers when it diminish its participation in the broader commodity product line. Both the bargaining power of suppliers and threat of substitute products to high-technology metals may make the specialised metal industry less profitable. Another weakness with redeploying into higher technology metals is that the rapid development of technology will expense too much cost and further reduce the profits of the company. Research and development cost, patents costs and the changing market in the business environment may be a threat to Quality Metal Service Centre. The organisation structure of QMSC is quite complex. It is decentralised very much on...
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...Quality Metal Service Center Case Analysis Company History Quality Metal Service Center was established in the late 1800s as a local metals distribution center. By 1992, it had grown into a national metal distribution company operating in four geographic regions-each of which contained about six districts. The company had experienced rapid sales growth along with the geographic expansion since the 1920s. In 1991, Quality Metal posted sales in excess of $750 million. In March, 1992, the president and CEO, Edward Brown, questioned the effectiveness of the company’s controls. He stated, “I don’t know if our controls have inhibited managers from pursuing our goals of aggressive growth and above-average return on assets, as compared to the industry…” (Anthony & Govindarajan, 2007, p. 300). Anthony and Govindarajan (2007) indicated in the years leading up to the 1990s, the metal distribution industry was “regarded as a mature, highly competitive, and fragmented industry.” There were, however, within the metal industry some important indicators that could enhance the growth potential of the metal service center sector. Anthony and Govindarajan (2007) identified three trends within the industry. One was the steel mill’s retrenchment. Product lines had been dropped, customer service staff had been reduced and specialty products were eliminated. The second trend included the implementation of a “just-in-time” inventory management system. Metal users reduced costs...
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...Case 7-3 Quality Metal Service Center In early March 1992, Edward Brown was President and CEO of Quality Metal Service Centers with the following comment: Although I am satisfied with the company's past performance, I believe that we have the ability to increase sales and profitability. Given the expansion of the market and competitive position, it is my feeling that we have missed certain opportunities to grow. I do not know if our government system has been to discourage managers to adhere to the objectives of the company, which is growing fast and being above average ROA compared with other companies in the industry. I want you to have it in mind when you are evaluating our system. proliferation Metal industry Metal Service Centers purchase from many factories (e.mills), including USX, Bethlehem, Alcoa, Reynolds and smaller companies like Crucible, Northwestern and Youngstown . These suppliers sell products in large batches. By doing this they maximize the throughput capacity of large production end collisions (e.run). Service Centers sells its consumers in smaller batches and shorter processing time. The distribution of metal industry was generally considered of mature, highly competitive and sundering industry. Still has a lot of firsts in the industry who have given Service Centers opportunity to grow. cuts in steel plant in their effort to be more competitive by increasing production capacity, most large national metal manufacturers have been withdrawn product lines by...
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...better investment as its own company without Schnitzer Steel’s ownership. Established in 1987, Pick-n-Pull Auto Dismanteling, Inc. (PNP) is a chain of self-service auto parts stores and is one of the largest recyclers of end-of-life vehicles in the industry. They have 61 locations currently in the United States and Canada and while many other companies are closing location, they are continuing to grow. The basis for the retail portion of their operation is simple customers pay their admission to the yard (admission prices vary by yard location), bring their tools and remove the parts that they need for their cars, vans and trucks foreign and domestic at a fraction of the price they would pay a dealership or even an automotive repair business. Pick-n-Pull keeps an online inventory of the cars on the premises and can even offer a customer a part “Interchange” which means that a part off of another make or model of vehicle is interchangeable with theirs. They also offer what they call “builders” which are cars that run and can be driven but need some work to make them reliable vehicles. Pick-n-Pull services more than 5 million customers each year. Pick-n-Pull also...
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...Clayton Mosher 3/25/2016 Introduction to Business The three occupations I chose to research were Automotive Body and Glass Repairer, Welders, and Metal and Plastic Machine workers. To be completely honest all three of these jobs interest me. When it came to choosing which occupation interests me the most it was unbelievably hard to choose. But ultimately and without a doubt I chose Automotive Body and Glass Repairer. A collision repair specialist’s job is to repair or fix vehicles that have been in some sort of accident. There are really three main reasons as to why I chose this occupation to write about. The first being, there is always room for advancement. Secondly is the amount of money that is typically paid. And lastly is the simple fact that I enjoy the work. From here I’m going to elaborate upon these three reasons. The number one reason that I chose this occupation is because it’s actually the occupation that I chose in real life. I’m currently attending Crowder College for their collision repair certificate. And as a bonus I am getting my associates of applied science with my certification. This is an added bonus so that if I ever decide that I don’t want to work in the automotive field anymore, I have something to fall back on if need be. The reason that there is always room for advancement is simply because if you don’t like where you are in the company you could always go off and start your own collision repair facility. To be honest it wouldn’t be that...
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...Hace su aparición durante el Siglo VIII que recoge la tradición de los pueblos sirio-persas, aunque introduce un aplicación, del esmalte blanco (mal llamado barniz blanco opaco), empleando dióxido de estaño. La característica más sobresaliente de la cerámica árabe, se puede concretar en que toda ella presenta un reflejo metálico, el cual se conseguía mediante una mezcla de cinabrio, sulfato de cobre, óxido de hiero, azufre y plata, actuando, en ocasiones el vinagre como disolvente. Esta aplicación siempre se cocía a más baja temperatura que el esmalte de base compuesto por: sulfuro de plomo, dióxido de estaño, sílice y arena con detalles en azul cobalto. Una característica de la cerámica primitiva es que es una monococción. Las formas de las vasijas de uso diario eran sencillas y estaban decoradas, principalmente, con motivos geométricos. Los colores predominantes son, marrones-violáceos, conseguidos a partir del óxido de manganeso y los verdes, con el óxido de cobre. También se usaban como elemento decorativo las incisiones y perforaciones. El mayor impulso se fraguó en la época del califato de Córdoba. Aplicaron el barniz plúmbeo o vidriado, al mismo tiempo que lo coloreaban usando la mezcla de óxidos. Se inicia la técnica de la "cuerda seca", que consiste en aplicar unas finas líneas de materia grasa con el fin de que no se mezclen colores colindantes. La fabricación de ladrillos también experimento un gran avance. Los centros más importantes de producción cerámica...
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...into the sediments. For each of the three lakes, sediment samples are taken from ten different locations within each of the lakes. The sediment samples are examined for five particular metals. These are Nickel (Ni), Copper (Cu), Zinc (Zn), Arsenic (As) and Lead (Pb). The purpose of this report is to find out what the level of each metal contaminant in each of the lakes and compare the level against Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality 2000 Volume 1 (ANZECC, 2000). Also to find the possible source of each metal tested. Results Table 1. Metals concentration in sediments from Knighton Lake, University of Waikato, 2000 | Ni | Cu | Zn | As | Pb | minimum (ppm) | 8 | 39 | 416 | 15 | 40 | Maximum (ppm) | 13 | 79 | 1515 | 25 | 170 | Mean (ppm) | 11 | 62 | 892 | 21. | 88 | standard Deviation | 1.65 | 12.32 | 317.93 | 3.27 | 44.23 | | | | | | | The Knighton Lake results when compared against the guidelines showed that the concentration of nickel and copper are below the trigger value and therefore are at an acceptable level. The results for the arsenic and lead are just above the trigger level. The zinc level however is at a very high level, its 484.8 ppm higher than the ISQH-High value in the ANZECC, 2000. Table 2. Metals concentration in sediments from Oranga Lake, University of Waikato, 2000 | Ni | Cu | Zn | As | Pb | minimum (ppm) | 10 | 68 | 1097 | 14 | 17 | Maximum (ppm) | 17 | 134 | 1895 | 29...
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...Science study guide 1 Q. Describe the difference between an element and a compound? A compound is a substance that made two or more different kinds of elements. A element is a basic substance that cannot be broken into a simpler substance by chemical 2 Q. Give an example of an element? Hydrogen 3 Q. Give an example of a compound? H20= water 4 Q. List all of the elements in the following substances? a. CaCO3: Calcium, Carbon, Oxygen b. Na(OH2)4: Oxygen, hydrogen, 5. In the substances listed above, how many atoms are in each? a. 3 b. 3 6. What is an example of a chemical reaction? 7. What is an example of a physical reaction? 8. Is aluminum (Al) a solid, liquid, or a gas? Solid 9. Is magnesium (Mg) a metal non-metal, or metalloid? Metal 10. Describe the difference between compression, contraction, and expansion? Expansion is an increase of volume due to increases kinetic energy of particles. Contraction is a decrease of volume due to decreased kinetic energy of particles. Compression is the decrease of gas volume as a result of applied force. Michelle mixed 100mL of water at 35 C with 100mL of water at 85 C. 11. What is the final temperature of water? T1+T2 85+35 = 120 =60 C 2 2 2 12. What is the final volume? 100 +100 200mL 13. How much heat energy transferred from the hot water? Cal= m* (triangle) T (Triangle) T= Tf- Ti 100*-25 cal=-2500 60-85= -25 14. How many heat energy transferred from the hot cold water Cal= m*(triangle)...
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