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22 Machinery Component Maintenance and Repair

Table 2-1
Maintenance Cost in the Chemical Process Industries, 1982’
Maintenance cost as percent of
plant, property and equipment
1982 Change - Historical cost -
(million 1981-82 Current
Original Depreciated’
(%)
dollars)
Chemical companies -- cost2
Du Pont $1,433.03 22.9% 5.9% 10.2% 8.0%
Union Carbidc 579.0 -12.0 s .4 9.6 7.2
Dow Chemical 559.0 -11.2 5 .O 9.5 6.1
Monsanto 378.0 -11.8 5.8 11.4 8.9
Allied 292.0 -5.8 5.6 10.2 7.1
PPG Industries 284.8 -2.4 8.5 14.3 10.9
W.R. Grace 200.2 -12.7 4.8 7.4 5.1
Celanese 185.0 -7.0 5 .O 11.5 9.1
American Cyanamid 155.1 -11.9 6.0 12.0 7.8
Hcrcules 135.5 2.5 6.5 14.7 10.1
Diamond Shamrock 110.7 -7.1 3.5 5.2 3.3
Ethyl 95.8 4.0 7.9 14.4 10.2
Stauffer Chemical 83.8 -13.2 4.2 7.0 4.4
Rohm and Haas 78.2 -8.4 6.0 14.3 10.7
Air Products and Chem. 86.4 0.7 3.6 6.2 4.7
Morton-Norwich 42.3 9.6 11.5 20.5 12.2
Pennwalt 33.8 -4.5 5.1 9.9 6.6
Big Three Industries 27.1 -11.2 2.5 3.5 2.6
Other CPI companies
Exxon 1,927.6 -3.8 3.3 4.9 2.7
U.S. Steel 1,277.0 -22.3 5.8 17.4 6.0
Mobil 991.0 -1.5 3.6 5.8 3.2
Eastman Kodak 673.0 11.2 7.2 13.3 7.8
Texaco 581.0 -14.3 2.5 4.1 2.6
Goodyear Tire 499.6 -1.7 10.5 22.4 13.2
Procter & Gamble 284.0 8.8 5.2 7.2 4.2
Firestone Tire 190.0 -2.6 9.1 17.9 13.8
BF Goodrich 148.8 -2.3 6.6 11.1 8.1
Olin 126.9 -3.8 7.1 15.1 11.2
Int’l. Min. & Chem. 115.5 -9.4 6.0 9.4 6.2
Borden 102.1 -3.1 5.2 8.4 4.8
Uniroyal Tire 76.7 -13.8 6.2 14.6 8.0
National Distillers & Chem. 64.2 -9.3 6.8 13.1 8.4
Esmark 39.7 -5.5 9.1 25.8 6.2
Sherwin-Williams 28.0 -10.5 6.2 12.3 7.8
I The asset’s remaining sewice potential. Present cost of acquiring the asset’s remaining service potential.
Includes the first full-year operation of Conoco. Source: 10K forms and annual reports filled by companies with
the Securities and Exchange Commission.
* Figures taken ffom reports filled annually with the Securities and Exchange Commis-
sion, compiled by Chemical Week Magazine (July 6, 1983).