Chemical Engineering, market information

Plot graphs of the semiannual market prices from 1940 on for raw materials, byproducts, and principal products of any manufacture given in Prob. 2-1. Prepare marginal profit curves from this information. Sources of information Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter Chemical Markets Chemical Engineering Chemical Week Chemical and Engineering News. 

Questions of social policy and workers problems were dealt with by the Association from the employers side. From time to time the Association gave an extensive evaluation of the development of Hungary s chemical industry. Using this and similar information the Association tried to influence the further development of the industrial companies, steering them towards, instead of unnecessary competition, existing market demands. It supported the training of chemists and chemical engineers. 

Harry Stenerson s Markets page in Chemical and Engineering News became a spot to watch for odd numbers that might help fill in missing information which could complete an end-use pattern. 

The value of a particular crude to a refiner depends on its quality and whether he can economically obtain a satisfactory product pattern that matches market demand (market pull). In the main, the refiner is not concerned with the actual chemical nature of the material but in methods of analysis that would provide information sufficient to assess the potential quality of the oil, to supply preliminary engineering data, and also to indicate whether any difficulties might arise in handling, refining, or transporting petroleum or its products. Such information may be obtained in one of two ways ... 

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