January
2009
Expansion News at Crescent Manufacturing
Passivation
At the end of
August 2008, Crescent made the decision based on environmental issues, to no
longer keep the chemicals in house that allowed us to maintain compliance with
the
QQ-P-35 or the
ASTM A380 passivation specifications.
Beginning in September it became necessary
for us to have this process done by an outside source. Crescent has partnered
with a local finishing company that can provide us overnight service on these
requirements. Any passivation to
ASTM A967 will continue to be done in
house.
If you require
NADCAP
processing, please make sure to specify this on all inquiries and orders as
this is not the standard and will require special handling by a separate
outside processing source.
All
passivation has certification availability.
All commercial parts are provided certs upon request, all
NADCAP
and military items will be provided certs automatically as part of the required
certification package.
As
this was a new venture for both companies initial costs were high and Crescent
was unable to offer much relief to our customers for this added outside
process. Now that we are several months
into our new partnership, we have been able to work out a much improved price
savings that we have begun to pass on to our customers. It is always important
to Crescent to keep our pricing as competitive as possible so that we may offer
the best parts at the best value, to give you, our customers,
"THE
CRESCENT EDGE
."
Material
Costs
2008 was
certainly a year that will be remembered for some time.
Not only did we have $5.00 per gallon fuel
prices, the stock market collapsing, and all the political hubbub of an
election year, but closer to home our industry faced some of the greatest
material cost increases that Crescent has experienced in the past 30 plus
years.
Stainless
steel reached its all time high with increases that peaked at more than double
the cost from just 2 years ago.
Alloy
steels had almost doubled and Mild steel, although lagging way behind, was up
70 to 80%.
Between fuel surcharges and
the scrap market, there seemed no end to the increases.
During the last quarter of the year Crescent was able to
negotiate some larger purchases of material to begin to reduce these
costs. Some have been dropping on their
own but further reductions have been
obtained by working with our suppliers.
These new purchases should be showing up by late second quarter 2009 as
our inventory, and our vendors higher priced inventories dwindle.
New
Products Reminder
Crescent
realizes how easy it is for our customers to associate us with particular
product requirements and how hard it is to get you to remember us for new
ones.
So….. Here is another reminder of
items that have been added to our capabilities within the past year.
1)
Size 6 thru size
5/16
now available in lengths up to and
including 3 inches.
2)
Now offering a
full line of shoulder or grip parts both commercial and military
AN525
MS27039
MS24694
NAS517
NAS623
3) Also available Phillips Hex Heads again both commercial
and military
NAS1096
NAS1801
4)
View our Stocking
Program items listed under "Parts In Inventory" for military items
that we try to keep available or offer a 2-4 week delivery on.
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