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Table VI-8
Quartz surface products: Raw materials of U.S. producers, by type, 2017-19
Item
Fiscal year
2017 2018 2019
Raw materials (1,000 dollars)
Silica *** *** ***
Resin Binder *** *** ***
Pigment *** *** ***
Other material inputs *** *** ***
Total raw materials *** *** ***
Unit raw materials (dollars per square foot)
Silica *** *** ***
Resin Binder *** *** ***
Pigment *** *** ***
Other material inputs *** *** ***
Unit raw materials *** *** ***
Source: Compiled from data submitted in response to Commission questionnaires.
***. 12 ***. 13
Conversion costs
With respect to U.S. producers, other factory costs (“OFC”) were the second largest
component of COGS, ranging from *** percent (in 2018) to *** percent (in 2017) of total COGS,
while direct labor costs ranged from *** percent (in 2018) to *** percent (in 2017) of total
COGS (see table VI-1). 14 For independent fabricators, OFC were the second largest component
of COGS, ranging from *** percent (in 2018) to *** percent (in 2017 and 2019)
12
Email from ***, March 4, 2020.
13
***. Email from ***, February 25, 2020.
14
In regards to the labor activities in the automated manufacturing process, Cambria testified that
“there are some aspects where labors are physically intervening on the product, but mostly, they're
operating computer interface and activating technology and equipment, different unit operations,
whether it be distributors or presses or ovens or cooling towers, these types of things and they're
monitoring that throughout and intervening appropriately through the production line. And then there's
the removal of the slab. It weighs you know 600 pounds, so there's removing of the slab with cranes and
forklifts and this type of thing, so there's the warehousing handling teams that are driving fork trucks
and moving cranes and this type of things. And then there's crews to do loading and the physical work to
load the products on the trucks and this type of thing, so it's a combination”. Conference transcript, pp.
83-84 (Davis).
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