Plant Construction Location Factor is Part of Free Chemical Encyclopedia

Dec. 6, 2012 - PRLog -- As a new part of the first free online encyclopedia of chemical technology, improvement and research economics, Intratec Knowledge Base, Intratec Solutions LLC (http://www.intratec.us) offers now a Plant Construction Location Factor, a powerful tool designed for students and professionals both for comparing available investment data and evaluating which region may provide greater economic attractiveness for a new industrial venture.

The Plant Construction Location Factor presents a rigorous and well-structured methodology for calculating all Location Factors, and the results are presented for specific regions’ capital costs comparison.

It takes into consideration the differences in productivity, labor costs, local steel prices, equipment imports needs, freight, taxes and duties on imported and domestic materials, regional business environments and local availability of sparing equipment.

All data are taken from Intratec’s database and from international statistical organizations and the calculations are performed in a comparative manner, taking a US Gulf Coast-based plant as the reference location. The final location factor is determined by four major indexes: Business Environment, Infrastructure, Labor and Material. Taking the standard reference calculated in 1.00 based in a US Gulf Coast plant it is possible to compare locations as Germany, China, Brazil, Japan and the US itself.

Moreover, the Plant Construction Location Factor enables students, professionals, investors and decision makers to find updates for the current quarter, preliminary values for the current quarter and full historical figures in a forever free online access at http://base.intratec.us.

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