Coping Strategies — Rising Cost Of Commodities

Meanwhile, we see the sellers of those commodities—the oil companies, for example—making what seem like huge profits as prices escalate. According to Arve Sund, senior vice president of the lithography business unit of Hydro Aluminum, the world’s largest provider of aluminum litho sheets, there is more demand than supply because of the huge growth rate in Asia. “We have an infrastructure which has been adjusted to a certain world demand that has now suddenly changed,” he says.