Oil Paint and Drug Reporter

The prices for raw materials were obtained from the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter, Aug. 9, 1971,... 

IS) Anonymous Chemical Profile, Lead Alkyls. Oil, Paint, and Drug Reporter, December 18, 1967, p. 9. 

Direct price quotations from prospective suppliers are preferable to published market prices. For preliminary cost analyses, market prices are often used for estimating raw-material costs. These values are published regularly in journals such as the Chemical Marketing Reporter (formerly the Oil, Paint, and Drug Reporter ). 

Chemical Week Buyer s Guide Oil Paint and Drug Reporter Green Book Reinhold s Chemical Materials Catalog Thomas Register of American Manufacturers... 

The roots when freshly dug yield about 1 per cent of oil. The root bark is richest, Oil, Paint and Drug Report, 1913, 83, No. 24, 34) containing 6 to 9 per cent. Power and Kleber Pharm. Rev. 1896,14,101) obtained 7.4 per cent from -the air-dried root bark. Enormous roots, weighing up to 10 cwt., are cut into chips and distilled in steam in stills of a capacity of 10 tons. Much oil is distilled in a crude way, and the heavier fractions of the oil are sometimes not completely extracted. 

The Oil, Paint, and Drug Reporter (3) carried an article scareheaded Vinyl Chloride Mart Upheaval Small Plants Fleeing the Scene as Big Units Reach Completion, in which the recent demise of four small plants with a combined capacity of 270 million pounds capacity was recorded and closings affecting another 400 million pounds of older capacity were predicted to follow. The following table from that article shows the effect of the trend toward giant plants in the relatively short period of two years in which a net increase of 50% of U.S. capacity is expected ... 

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. 

The costs of raw materials and the value of by-products and products must be determined from statistics in the company office or from a study of long-time price curves from such sources as U.S. Census of Manufactures, Chemical Engineering, Chemical and Engineering News, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Chemical Week, Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter, and the daily papers. 

Chemical prices can be found in many of the specialist journals Oil Paint and Drug Reporter, particularly its annual Hi-Lo Chemical Price Issue, Chemical Industries, Chemical Engineering, Rubber Age, American Perfumer, Chemical and Engineering News, and the Dyer. 

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