[alt-photo] Re: The Gum Arabic Report

[Loris Medici]

  Thanks for the report Katharine, I guess we may have to search for a 
synthetic replacement product (such as Mowiol) if the situation 
persist... I have 2kg's of good food grade gum powder on hands - which 
works wonderfully for me. Maybe I should buy a couple of kg's more - 
from the same batch. (It's cheap here, something around USD 15 per kg - 
paints and paper cost much more...)

05.07.2010 21:10, Katharine Thayer yazmış:
> ... the industry market report for June continues dire: "The price 
> increase trend of A. senegal continues as the quantities of incoming 
> raw gums keep dwindling. We foresee that this will remain the case. 
> The supply of Hand Picked Select (the highest grade of A. senegal) is 
> extremely limited, will not meet demand, and will remain very high 
> priced."
>
> The price of A. senegal in contrast was very low from 1998-2003 or so; 
> let's hope that our suppliers loaded up during those years of cheap 
> gum and won't have to buy while the price is high.
>
> I just think this is all very fascinating, and share it for whatever 
> it's worth to anyone else. There's a lot more, but that's probably 
> really enough for now, and as I said, this is just bits and pieces 
> I've pulled off the internet, hardly a full account, but I really do 
> think someone should write that book.