Are increasing oil prices effecting your competitiveness?

By: Allan Kondrup Jensen

Increasing oil prices have a direct influence on the market situation.

For most plastic pipe producers the increasing oil prices have a direct influence on the market situation and must often lead to strategic decisions not to loose market shares such as:

1.       Higher prices on products

2.      Lower earnings when keeping the same prices

3.      The need to lower production and material costs

 Point 3 is for most plastic pipe producers the only real alternative, and this is leading to following actual statements: 

·   The oil prices keep increasing and the prognoses are that this development will continue. What effect does the oil prices have on the raw material prices?

·   Focus on production optimisation and material savings are more important than ever before.

·   Staying competitive is a never ending search for new technology and to be innovative, to improve quality and reduce costs

At SCITEQ we are currently experiencing a growing demand for a new technology which is stabile, none time consuming, provides reliable measurements, accurate, can provide documentation and keep the production at the minimum tolerances and costs. 

SCITEQ has developed a tool to keep production and material costs at a minimum and help secure competitiveness of our partners. The X-Act SL for single layer pipes and X-Act for multilayer pipes are precisely that tool!

An on-line measuring system to help our partners to produce as cost effective as possible with a high accuracy on-line measuring system, which need no calibration, or water as a contact medium, is not affected by temperature and can be used for production documentation and quality control on-line. All features in one unit, giving the most advanced system on the world market today for on-line measurement of single layer and multilayer pipes.

Our experience have learned us that the pay-back time when implementing our X-Act units is normally very acceptable – use below calculation as inspiration.

Contact us for a discussion on innovative thinking!