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Composites: Past, Present & Future
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tions to our suppliers." Notably, only 28 percent of them said this
trend has no signifcance or impact on their businesses. Te rest
said it had import to varying degrees, with 46 percent indicating
moderate to signifcant impact.
Out of the game for more than a decade, Jef McClelland, who
retired from Dexter Corp. (Bay Point, Calif.) when its resin and
adhesive divisions were absorbed by Henkel Corp. in 2000, con-
tends that the supplier-cum-manufacturer phenomenon is "noth-
ing new." Although vertical integration is more prevalent today,
"it was alive and well several decades ago," he afrms. "Te 'issue'
has been around for a long time and appears to be alive, well and
growing!" In fact, he says, the need for growth is an underlying
morph motivator. "Senior management, especially in public com-
panies, always wants growth," he points out. "Of course what they
mean is EPS [earnings-per-share] growth for the shareholders.
For the minions running the various businesses, it means fnding
ways to increase volume, margins and income. Preferably all three,
but especially income. Of' times — and probably now more than
ever — it means to seriously consider forward and/or backward
integration of your capabilities." |
CT |
Editor's Note: More survey results, broken down by market, and
an extended version of this commentary, can be found at short.com-
positesworld.com/whymorph2. And CT will continue to track the
trend. Meanwhile, the discussion is still open. Comments continue to
be welcome. Address them to mike@compositesworld.com.
Looking ahead three to fve years, suppliers/distributors indicated there
would be a modest upswing in the trend toward supplying substructures
and/or fnished parts.
manufacture
substructures
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