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Pricing: Price of Native Food-Grade Tapioca Starch

LINQblog — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:38:52 +0000

Native Tapioca starch, even food-grade tapioca starch is a world commodity and CAPLINQ knows that it must compete against a global market of producers. Despite this, we believe that our tapioca starch prices, produced in Gabon, Africa are very competitive and when you include sea freight charges to South Africa, Europe, and South America – our prices are even more competitive.

Volume-Based Native Tapioca Starch Prices | Cassava Starch

Though CAPLINQ typically publishes its price-list publicly, the commodity business of tapioca starch changes so rapidly that prices change every week. Instead, CAPLINQ refers its customers to the Thai Tapioca Starch Association (TTSA) website where prices of Thai-supplied starch are supplied, and CAPLINQ’s sales price have always been below these prices.

LOOKING FOR AN OFFICIAL PRICE QUOTE? Contact us and let us know your required quantity and the destination port.

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Custom-made Stamped Polyimide to Specification Drawings

LINQblog — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:52:36 +0000

As a manufacturer of polyimide tapes and films (generic version of Kapton), we are often asked whether we can make custom-made shapes and sizes to meet advanced packaging requirements. The requests come from design engineers looking to incorporate polyimide films into their designs, often to create an insulation layers between two parts.

CAPLINQ offers this service and can even supply this for fairly low volume applications. For example, the image shown is a 3mil (0.003″ or 0.075mm) polyimide film with a custom-shape with maximum outside dimensions of 19.4mm x 9.4mm.

Below is CAPLINQ’s pricing for such a request:
#1 A one-time tooling charge of USD$150

#2 Price per part is volume dependent. Lower prices are available for even higher-volumes:
a) 500 Pieces: USD $1.50 /each
b) 1000 Pieces: USD $1.10/each
c) 2000 Pieces: USD $1.00/each

For your no-obligation quote or more information about polyimide tapes or any other of our products, visit us or contact us for more details.

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Factors affecting prices of LINQSTAT Volume Conductive Film

LINQblog — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:12:05 +0000

Customers always want to know “Can I get this LINQSTAT Volume Conductive Film (a 3M Velostat* Alternative) any cheaper?” At first glance it seems like a salesman’s worst nightmare, but when you turn the question to the process engineering team within the production department, you get a whole different reaction.

“You sure can!” is the reply I got recently from a process engineer. Upon further discussion, he gave me some tips that I have included here as a guidelines. Hopefully they serve others as well as they have served me.

It turns out that the price of the LINQSTAT volume conductive film are heavily influenced by two specific attributes of the roll and there is one attribute that has marginal effect on the product cost. These three elements are as follows:

The thickness of the roll
The length of the roll and
The width of the roll (ie. the slitting of the rolls)

LINQSTAT Roll Thickness
The most popular thickness for the rolls of volume conductive film is 4mil (102µm), but this normally makes it only the most readily available, not necessarily the cheapest. 2 mil (50µm) and 3mil (76µm) film thicknesses are also possible, and since the product (and the shipping costs) are dependent on the amount of material used, 2mil and 3mil will be cheaper than the 4 mil.

Though you will need to contact a sales representative for an actual quotation, a close approximation is that the 3mil thick LINQSTAT will be about 10% cheaper than the 4mil thick version and the 2 mil is about 15% cheaper than the 4mil thick version.

Yes, some of the properties will vary depending on the thickness used, but if you can test a thinner version and it works for you, then start enjoying the savings.

LINQSTAT Roll Length
The loading and unloading of the rolls is a manual process, but once the machine is running, there are very few extra costs associated and the discounts that CAPLINQ gets from this can be passed on diretcly to the customer.

Assuming you need to have 150′ (46m) lengths, you will pay a premium to have them delivered in such (relatively) short lengths. In widths wider than a couple inches, these rolls can also be supplied in lengths up to 1500′ (457m). Granted that these lengths can be more cumbersome to handle, but if the operators and machines can handle it, why not take the savings.

To give you an idea, (though again you should contact a sales representative for an official quotation), a 1500′ roll is about 35% cheaper than a 150′ roll of the same product. Elements to consider for this are the loading and unloading of the rolls, the individual cores needed for each roll (and end caps) and individual packaging of the rolls in static-free bags.

Example for rolls of 9″ wide (229mm) x 0.004″ (102µm) thick Linqstat

To give you a better idea of what we’re talking about let me give you an example to show you the differences:

LINQSTAT VCF Roll Dimensions 9” (229mm) Wide X 0.004” (102µm) Thick
Roll Length	Roll Diameter	Roll Weight	Approx. Savings
150′ (45.7m)	4.5″ (108 mm)	4 lbs (1.6 kgs)	0%
750′ (229m)	7.5″ (191 mm)	15 lbs (6.8 kgs)	15%
1500′ (457m)	10″ (254 mm)	28 lbs (12.7 kgs)	35%

Of course, if 1500′ is not possible, you can go shorter (750′, 500′ or even 250′) and there will be a little savings in each roll length longer than the original 150′.

LINQSTAT Roll Width (ie. the slitting of the rolls)
As it turns out, there is very little effect on pricing if the roll widths are longer or shorter. The slitting time is relatively short and does not play a large roll in determining the final product price.

Visit the CAPLINQ LINQSTAT VCF Volume Conductive Film website today to find out more, or contact us for more information.

* 3M is a registered trademark of 3M Corporation. Velostat is a trademark of 3M Corporation.
Neither is affiliated with this site.

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You want that price in U$D or €uro?

LINQblog — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:57:00 +0000

These days, the answer to that question is pretty easy. With the sinking of the US dollar and the strength of the Euro, businesses all over the world are scrambling to do business with American companies. The downside for European companies trying to get in on the action is that shipping costs from the USA generally negate any adding savings of buying in US dollars.

Buy in Europe, Pay in US Dollars

For American companies, who are used to paying in US Dollars, the service CAPLINQ offers isn’t particularly valuable. For European customers however, this is a real windfall. These customers can now negotiate and buy consumable materials for use in Europe and pay in USD – truly the best of both worlds.

How can CAPLINQ do this?
CAPLINQ is not a publicly traded company with shareholders needing to be pleased. We control our own costs and negotiate ourselves as much as we can in US Dollars so that we don’t speculate on currency fluctuations. Sure, we have costs in Euros, but not nearly as much fixed overhead as the big guys and because we have locations on both sides of the Atlantic and can shift resources to best utilize our US Dollar prices.

How else can CAPLINQ offer such low prices?
One of the most obvious ways we control costs is through our marketing and sales budgets.We do have sales people that travel to customer sites when necessary, the operative word here being necessary. Our customers work smarter today than at any other time in history; surfing the web, reading blogs, participating in forums and chatting live with potential suppliers.

CAPLINQ embraces this and uses it to reduce costs. We post blogs that customers read instead mailing newsletters that collect in a pile. We provide live updates and news on our products instead of 10,000 copies of a catalog that sits on customers’ shelves. We have live chat boxes so customers get timely answers to their questions, and we add more and more data to our product pages as questions are asked and answers provided.

We strive to put price tags on as many products as we can, so you can comparative shop and come back to us. If you do find prices better than ours, let us know and we’ll try to beat them.

So visit us today as www.caplinq.com and experience the CAPLINQ difference.

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