Valuable metal prices

How and what are you going to tell your customers who complain about the huge price increase of your machines?

Surely they know about the increases of raw materials’ prices but unable to reconcile those increases with the new prices.
The following tables show the price increase of the metals used to produce transformers: think of it!

Price of copper has increased by 125% in 1 ½ years!

Other materials used in the production of welders are steel and brass ( a mix of copper and zinc ).

Well, they have also experienced huge price increases. Steel price increased by 90% in 2005 and zinc had a price increase by 213% from 01/01/2005 to30/05/2006.

 

Δ %

 

A

B

C

C/A

C/B

METALS

01.01.2005

01.01.2006

28.06.2006

 

 

 

US$/TON

US$/TON

US$/TON

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COPPER

3133

4536

7040

+ 124,7

+ 55,2

ALUMINIUM

1834

2270

2456

+ 33,9

+ 8,19