Global And China Polyamide 66 (Nylon 66/PA66) Industry 2013 Market Analysis and Overview

It is important first to understand the direction that the company wishes to undertake before identifying the more salient points in the evolution of Nypro, Inc. The company aims to maintain a sustainable growth in profits and revenues. It also aims to "enhance its customer focus and serviceability by being the customer's local source for customer injection worldwide". Extra research would yield the company's mission statement as: To be the best in the world at providing integrated and innovative plastics solutions, from design to delivery, creating value for our customers, employees

Upon reviewing the primary suppliers of polymer feedstock for DEP, specifically the suppliers awarded with 60% of the volume, I am able to calculate a maximum performance cycle of 25 days to deliver product to GARD. Assuming inventory is NOT available for some reason requiring an order from polymer suppliers, the longest lead time to receive polymer is 9 days from the 60% suppliers. To receive, process, and produce the material for the customer order, you then add 8 days, as this is the longest production cycle time. Orders are sent to the warehouse, prepared for shipping, and another 6 days may elapse before the order is actually shipped. Using the assumption that GARD is within the 200 mile radius, the longest time that delivery may take place based on twice a week deliveries is 2 days. This gives us a total of 25 days.

Local procurement of materials provides an ease in production at the plant in Hangzhou. Costs are one area that attention is paid so that they can be kept within reason ensuring an affordable product. Throughout the process careful negotiations must be done to ensure there are adequate materials as well as manpower to fulfill the orders that have been placed by customers. The plant has the ability to produce a large amount of stock fans as well as special order merchandise. With specialty orders the process for procurement shift slightly because of the unique nature of the order and the variety of materials that may be used as well. With the procurement of the polymer done locally this also expedites the production process simply because logistics will not be an issue. The necessary machinery for manufacturing is onsite for quick manufacturing times that can quickly move into the production lines for assembly. Assembly leads way into storage for sales. Orders can be filled at the plant as well as shipped directly to the buyer both within China and internationally. Depending on the final destination of the merchandise there are multiple companies that are used to ensure the fastest shipping time to the buyer.

We suggest that we start the analysis process to get some ideas on the cost of renovating the EPC plant to start producing Polypropylene. This would also increase polypropylene production and possibly alleviate the 45 day shut down that is required in the original proposal. Also, it alleviates potential for the EPC plant to lay off employees if a future abandonment of that project took place. EPC employees would be retained and retrained to produce polypropylene.

A polyurethane coating is a high gloss finish with exceptional weathering performance characteristics and superior resistance to corrosion and chemicals. The Navy Industrial Hygienist does an annual assessment for the entire command and does the paint operations quarterly. The Hygienist has been conducting a workplace assessment survey of all touch-up painting operations on aircraft and equipment for the past 12 years and the survey records are located in a file cabinet in Shawn Hurdle office. A team of 4 will be here beginning July 7th for a week monitoring our processes and operations. They take an assessment of areas with high potential risk for injuries, occupational illness or damage to Navy

This consistent innovation cycle and expansion of the distribution network has helped the company to continue its growth story. Moreover, Pidilite’s products have a smaller development phase as they don’t involve a lot of R&D as compared to some other products, nor does it requires major capital investments, as the new products are rolled out from the existing manufacturing units.

Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer employing 550 people with projected annual earnings of $46 million. Riordan’s main customers range from automotive parts manufacturers to the Department of Defense. One of Riordan’s main productions is plastic beverage containers. Riordan’s most recent expansion took place in 2000 when the company relocated operations from Pontiac Michigan to China. The Pontiac Michigan facility was retooled for the manufacture of custom plastic parts

Riordan Manufacturing Industries is a worldwide manufacturer of plastics who employs 550 employees and they are a Fortune 1000 enterprise. Presently, there are three sites that they manufacture from in Hangzhou China they manufacture fan parts made out of plastic. In Pontiac, Michigan they create plastic parts for customer and in Albany, Georgia they produce plastic beverage container. On the other hand

„« Substitute products - plastics and other components have taken market share from steel and will continue to do so.

The two pie charts compare the respective categories of US household garbage in 1990 and 2005. Overall, most of household garbage was the paper in both years while the percentage of plastics in 2005 rose by 10% compared to in 1990.

Our analysis of this case is to advise Hans Thorborg to move to producing the plastic rings. It is important for PWI to evolve with the industry, and refusing to transition to the new product could have a devastating impact on their future sales. Although PWI has a strong presence in the market, it’s stated in the case study that the plastic rings have at least four times the wearing properties of the steel rings. Therefore, while the steel ring currently lasts for an

This report seeks to explain the key differences between the NASA (North American South American) and EROW (Europe and rest of world) sales performance over the past nine months. There are several reasons causing the sales performance figures currently stemming from NASA to be incomparable with the EROW numbers, including the current practice of transferring large quantities of regular butyl rubber from the Sarnia to the Antwerp production facilities. As Polysar operates globally, it

Polysar Limited is Canada’s largest chemical company. Its Rubber Group accounts for 46% of Polysar’s sales. The primary products for this group are butyl and halobutyl and the principal customers for these products are tire manufacturers. The rubber Group has two divisions: NASA (North America & South America) and EROW (Europe & elsewhere). There is product transferring between NASA and EROW and the Vice President of NASA is required to present the performance results to the Board of Directors and explain why the bottom line is lower than expected.

Dave Jentzsch is the General Manager at Blair Rubber Company. He has been the General Manager for the past twenty years at Bleir Rubber Company, Hyload, and Martin Rubber Company in Seville, Ohio. Except for the nine years he spent in the active Navy, he has worked in the rubber engineering field since the Mid-1970s. He is also a retired United States Navy Reserved Commander. Also, he studied Chemical Engineering at Brigham Young Univeristy, graduated with a Bachelors in Nuclear Science from University at Albany, SUNY and an MBA from Regis

TGA is considered one of the best techniques in estimating the lifetime of the polymers. To get the lifetime prediction of the testing material with higher accurate results, Thermo-Microbalance TG 209 F1 Libra was used. One advantage of the TG 209 F1 Libra® is its vertical, top-loading design which guarantees free and safe access to the crucible – there is no hang-down wire with any danger of bending, and no horizontal beam where crashing can occur. When placing the crucible on the sample carrier, there is no effect to the microbalance since the sample carrier is detached by an automatic lifting device. Sample placement is therefore always trouble-free. The maximum temperature of the corrosion-resistant micro-furnace amounts to 1100°C (sample