Pricing practice

One indicator of business in the plating industry is anode sales to electroplaters however, anode costs ate only a varying portion of the prices used by electroplating shops, because no standard pricing practice seems to exist. The total value of the plating industry is estimated to be in the area of several biUion doUars. Job shop plating sales could be about a biUion doUars. 

Monroe, K. B. (1990), Pricing Making Profitable Decisions, 2nd Ed., McGraw-Hill, New York. Monroe, K. B. (1993), Pricing Practices which Endanger Profits, Pricing Strategy Practice, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 4-10. 

Practically, one measures the quantity of total sulfur (in all its forms) contained in crude oil by analyzing the quantity of SO2 formed by the combustion of a sample of crude, and the result is taken into account when evaluating the crude oil price. When they are present, elementary sulfur and dissolved H2S can also be analyzed. 

But there is a price to be paid. Good Workmanship acceptance criteria for conventional techniques must, to a certain extent, be conservative, in order to compensate for the inherent "limitations" of conventional NDT. And, what is worse, the degree of conservatism is more or less unknown. Therefore the question can be asked "if the historic background of present NDT practice would not exist, what would we like to know today about a weld to be able to accept or reject it "... 

There are many different routes to organic chemicals from biomass because of its high polysaccharide content and reactivity. The practical value of the conversion processes selected for commercial use with biomass will depend strongly on the availabiUty and price of the same chemicals produced from petroleum and natural gas. 

Elements that the researcher evaluates about competitors include plants, processes, raw material costs and avakabiHty, distribution channels, product development skills, service faciHties, personnel, pricing poHcies, eg, does the competitor lead or foUow , and practices or concessions to secure and hold large customers. AH of these factors are weighed and then the researcher decides on a strategy for the company. 

This article provides a basic, step-by-step approach to problem solving in the practice and management of patents and trade secrets. The significance of aggressive patent and trade secret protection to the economic well-being of a business or organization should not be underestimated. Without patents and trade secrets, the marketplace is reduced to competition on the basis of price, which may be very difficult. 

Petroleum refining, also called petroleum processing, is the recovery and/or generation of usable or salable fractions and products from cmde oil, either by distillation or by chemical reaction of the cmde oil constituents under the effects of heat and pressure. Synthetic cmde oil, produced from tar sand (oil sand) bitumen, and heavier oils are also used as feedstocks in some refineries. Heavy oil conversion (1), as practiced in many refineries, does not fall into the category of synthetic fuels (syncmde) production. In terms of Hquid fuels from coal and other carbonaceous feedstocks, such as oil shale (qv), the concept of a synthetic fuels industry has diminished over the past several years as being uneconomical in light of current petroleum prices. 

Production is practiced at many hundreds of metric tons annually by batchwise or semicontinuous operation in automated glass and stainless steel equipment typical of fine chemical manufacture. World production in 1995 was estimated at about 3000 MT with sales prices in the United States in the range of 22— 30 per kilogram. 

Transall lation. Two molecules of toluene are converted iato one molecule of benzene and one molecule of mixed xylene isomers ia a sequence called transalkylation or disproportionation. Economic feasibiUty of the process strongly depends on the relative prices of benzene, toluene, and xylene. Operation of a transalkylation unit is practical only when there is an excess of toluene and a strong demand for benzene. In recent years, xylene and benzene prices have generally been higher than toluene prices so transalkylation is presendy an attractive alternative to hydrodealkylation (see also Btx... 

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