Spring Material Market Pressures: What's causing the escalating prices and surcharges and when can springmakers expect them to level out?

摘要

At its Spring Convention in May 2004, the Spring Manufacturers Institute hosted a panel of wire suppliers to provide springmakers insight into the current climate and what might be expected in the months ahead. The panel included Dan Gutos, vice president of Leggett & Platt Inc. in Carthage, MO (representing commercial-grade materials); Steve Kraft, marketing manager of Precision Steel Warehouse in Franklin Park, IL (representing warehousing and distribution); Kirk Manning, vice president - sales and marketing of Haldex Garphyttan Corp. in South Bend, IN (representing ferrous valve-quality materials); Dave Shol-lock, product manager of Sandvik Materials Technology in Clark Summit, PA, (representing stainless and nonferrous materials); and Bill Snyder, vice president - commercial of American Spring Wire in Bedford Heights, OH (representing general spring materials).