Monday, July 28, 2008
Olympics, zum von RC Kraftstoffpreiszunahme zu verursachen Categories - Fuel, Industry, Racing , trackback
Es hat viel Gespräch vor kurzem über das kurze Versorgungsmaterial von Nitro gegeben, aber es würde die hohen kommenden olympischen Spiele in China verursacht eine Preiszunahme zwischen von 15 u. von 20% im Einzelhandelspreis des vorbildlichen Autokraftstoffs erscheinen. Der größte Grund für die Zunahme ist, daß das Hauptfabrikliefern Nitro an vorbildliche Kraftstoffhersteller während der Dauer der Spiele geschlossen worden sind, während der chinesische Versuch, zum der Luftverschmutzung zu verringern zu denen dargelegt vom internationalen olympischen Ausschuß ebnet.
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MERLIN Kraftstoff haben uns, daß seit Januar es fast eine 60% Zunahme des Preises von Nitro gegeben hat und dieses, das mit dem schlechten Versorgungsmaterial kombiniert wird, Problemen verursacht, insbesondere für kleinere Kraftstoffhersteller erklärt. MERLIN, das sagen, haben sie die großen genug auf lagerniveaus, zum der gegenwärtigen Kraftstoffpreise beizubehalten, bis Oktober Annäherungen von einer Anzahl von den europäischen rivalisierenden Herstellern gehabt haben, die einem Versorgungsmaterial von nach Nitro suchen.
Das gegenwärtige kurze Versorgungsmaterial von Nitro ist nicht gerecht, den rc Markt bewirkend aber, schleppt auch das Laufen in den US mit dem Vorstand des NHRA, das ein Verbot auf der Prüfung auf brennende obere Kraftstoffnitroautos impossing ist. Mannschaften einer Zahl werden auch gezwungen, Spiritus zu den Vorwärmung Maschinen zu benutzen, um Nitroaktien zu konservieren. Das folgende youtube Bildschirm gibt einen guten Einblick zu den Problemen, die z.Z. durch das NHRA gegenübergestellt werden.
EFRA berücksichtigen die Ausgaben betreffend sind Nitro und arbeiten bereits in Richtung zum Verringern der Niveaus von Nitro verwendet durch jede Kategorie Gaslaufen. Ein Antrag, zum des Maximum die Erlaubnis gehabten Nitroniveaus für jede Kategorie zu verringern ist z.Z. unter Diskussion durch technischen Ausschuß EFRAS aus beiden Gründen von Kosten und zu helfen, Maschine Energie zu verringern. Sander de Graaf, der 1:8 Onroad Abschnitt-Repräsentant für EFRA, erklärt uns, daß der Gebrauch von alternativen Biokraftstoffen für den Sport besprochen wird.
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uel Shortage Q & A
Ken Cutler, Senior Vice President
Great Planes Model Distributors
With all sorts of wild rumors and speculation flying everywhere
regarding the
availability of nitro methane hobby fuel, we thought that it would help
if we tried
to clear up the confusion by answering some of the most frequently asked
questions we have been receiving.
Q. I heard that one nitromethane factory closed which has created a
massive shortage in fuel. Is that true?
A. Not really. There are only two large capacity plants in the world
that produce
fuel grade nitromethane suitable for use in hobby fuels. One is in the
US, the
other in China. Both are still fully operational and conducting business
as usual.
The US plant that supplies many of the US hobby fuel bottlers has
decided to
temporarily reserve all of its production capacity for other more
profitable
business sectors such as pharmaceutical and agricultural products where
demand
is skyrocketing.
This decision left several bottlers scrambling to re-source their
nitromethane
supply, prompting them to eliminate availability of the over 20% nitro
blends in
order to conserve their nitro supply. This is a short term problem, not
a massive
shortage situation.
Great Planes has been assured by our factory that we have enough nitro
to
continue supplying all percentages of fuel, even those above 20%.
However, we
have been informed by Homeland Security that nitro percentages over 50%
can
no longer be produced. Current supplies can be bottled and sold but no
more
produced. There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that the FBI is
closing down
nitro methane plants because of Homeland Security issues.
Q. Is there a shortage of nitromethane production?
A. Yes and No. There are no problems related to the production of
nitromethane other than the Chinese factory being limited to a five day
work
week. This limitation is not new and is and has been a problem for all
factories in
most of the industrial areas of China for the past several years.
Nitromethane is
not being limited nor is it on allocation and from what we understand;
there are
no indications whatsoever that it will be.
Q. I heard that the fuel shortage had something to do with the
Olympic Games. Is this true?
A. No. The rumor that China wanted to clean the air in Beijing for the
Olympics
and shut down factories is true to a degree, but the factory that
produces the
nitromethane used in our proprietary fuels is not in Beijing and is not
affected.
Q. If there are no production problems or capacity problems with
nitromethane then why is there a sudden shortage of fuel?
A. Panic buying. The rumors which have led some to believe that there
would be
no hobby fuel available spread like wild fire causing panic buying and
hoarding of
fuel. Our own standard 8 to 10 week inventory of fuel was virtually gone
in a
matter of days as was our next re-stocking order. We literally went
through three
months of fuel inventory in less than two weeks. Until the supply chain
is fully
replenished which could take up to six weeks, there might be some on and
off
availability problems.
Q. If there is no nitro shortage, then why did you and everyone else
raise your prices on fuel at nearly the same time?
A. This would be a much more interesting story if this were about
international
intrigue, price fixing, collusion and price gouging, but it is not. The
truth is that
the cost to produce nitro fuel has been steadily increasing over the
past six
months and it has nothing to do with supply and demand and/or phantom
shortages.
Our bottler has not been passing all of these increases on to us
immediately and
we have not passed any of the increases on to you, our customers, until
just
recently. The cost of certain raw materials, methanol, propane and
sulfur that are
used to make nitromethane, are rapidly climbing. The price of sulfur
alone has
risen approximately five times in the last twelve months. Further
increases in raw
material costs such as plastic (for bottles) are a result of escalating
crude oil costs.
In addition, the factories are faced with a 17% loss due to the
elimination of
China’s export VAT rebates, an 18% loss due to the weakening of the
dollar and
increased freight costs due to higher oil prices. Currently we have no
guarantee
on our pricing and are being quoted pricing on a shipment-to-shipment
basis. We
expect nitro fuel prices will continue to increase, at least in the
short term.
Many of the other fuel vendors who were purchasing nitro in the US have
had to
re-source to the nitromethane producer located in China and also are
susceptible
to these price increases.