iRepresents sales by manufacturers.Not available. 550 MINERALS YEARBOOK


part of this increase resulted from fires rather than from less ef1~Icient
methods generally. /
 Prices and value.—The average value at plants of the carboi~( black
produced in 1932 was 2.75 cents, compared with 3.07 cents ir~ 1931. The 1932
figure undoubtedly *represented the lowest average yet recorded. Most contracts
for deliveries over the early part of the year were based on a price of 3
cents, but general competitive conditions and the failure of the rubber industry
to make a substantial recovery resulted in a decline to 2.75 cents in the
late spring. This price held generally over the remainder of the year, but
the insistence of some large buyers on a protective clause in their contracts
to cover decreases in price made the outlook for higher quotations in 1933
doubtful. Average values in 1932 ranged from 2.68 cents for Panhandle black
to 3.02 cents for Louisiana black.

Quoted prices of various grades of carbon black, 1931—3f~, in cents
per pound
[Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter]
D
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..
Lithoink
qua ies
Standard
rubber, ~
~uaf~i~
(bags, cases)
Works, Louisiana (bags)
' 
Works, Texas
(bags)
1931
Jan.1l                             
22.0

.-~
7.5
7.0
 
4.1
3.6
3.1
4.0
3.5
3.0
Jan.12                                         
Feb.9                              




1932
Apr.25                                         
June13                             
July 18                             

5.75
5.0
 
2.85
2.75

-~






2.82
2.72
in effect as of first of year.


 Competitive products.—Carbon black competes with a number of other
products of which the most important are zinc oxide, bone black, and lampblack.
In many instances the competition of these products with carbon black is
very slight. Each has certain uses in which it excels; neverthelei~s it might
be helpful to show the pertinent statistics for the three principal competitors,
as follows:

Salient statistics of competitive products

Production (pounds)
Value per pound (cents)

 1929 1931 1932
 1929 1931 1932
Bone black          
Lampblack          
Zinc oxide          
 1 54,277,051 33,214,240    (2) 1 10, 765,492 3, 424,048'    (2) 394, 978,000
218,964,0001 160,784,000
 4.6 3.9 (2) 11. 0 9. 4 (2) 6.3 6. 2 5.3