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As their businesses globalize at increasing rates, managers need frameworks for analyzing industry activities on a worldwide basis. In this paper, a framework for global industry analysis is presented, using the machine tool industry to illustrate how industry overviews, global consumption and production analyses can be used to gain worldwide perspectives on industry behaviors. Breakdowns by company, segment, region and country markets help strategy formulation and resource allocations in the worldwide marketplace. Obtaining the right sorts of information is the key to insightful global analyses. The globalization of industry trade associations and on‐line business news services are major sources of worldwide industry developments.

This looseleaf industry handbook provides a comprehensive and practical guide to the workings of the international zinc industry. Concise and lucid, it considers trading techniques and strategies for different market users and includes useful appendices on zinc specifications and the world's major zinc and lead mines. It is essential for all those involved in the industry. A comprehensive guide to the workings of the international zinc industryWritten by well known industry insidersExamines future trends in demand, trade and pricing

Front -- Contributors -- Contents -- Editorial Introduction to the First Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction -- Quality and safety issues -- Environmental issues -- Polymers -- The sulphur, phosphorus, nitrogen and chlor-alkaliindustries -- Agrochemicals -- The pharmaceutical industry -- Biological catalysis and biotechnology -- The future