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There's been a lot of speculating about margins.
Why not put some numbers on it?
To get things started, how much is a ton of bricks? You may assume the standard
assortment found in a blue tub or other basic bucket. Further assume that the
wholesale cost is 2/3 of retail. For extra credit, give the quantities of each
brick type in a ton of bricks, and their fraction by weight.
Use the metric ton standard. This will be the unit by which ABS is sold in
commodity markets.
ABS is created from naphtha by petrochemical giants such as BASF. Prices for
both have been rising steeply.
-Erik
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