Weight loss material
Weight loss material and pure material are terms from business administration that go back to Alfred Weber . He understood a “pure material” to be a product which, in terms of weight, is completely incorporated into the new good during production. A “weight loss material”, on the other hand, is only partially or not at all, but ends up as waste .
Examples of weight loss material are almost all energy sources as well as ores . If, on the other hand, there is a pure refinement, such as in the production of precious metals , the starting product is a pure material. For Alfred Weber, this distinction was important for the development of his site model : production sites that primarily use weight loss material as raw material are often located at the site where this raw material is extracted; the transport of the weight loss material raw material to an outsourced production facility would be too expensive, there is often a higher weight and these materials are more expensive to transport than the other required means of production . On the other hand, the production site of products that mainly use pure weight materials is often directly on the end product market.
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Weber : About the location of industries, 1st part: Pure theory of the location . Tübingen 1909, p. 53.
- ↑ Dieter Strohm: The influence of economic change situations on traffic flows . Duncker & Humblot, 1969, p. 51ff.
- ↑ Erich Schäfer: The company: Introduction to business administration . 10th edition, Springer-Verlag, 2013, p. 71, ISBN 978-3-6631-2053-7 .
- ^ Wolfgang Korndörfer: The location of the company . In: Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre . Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden 1986, pp. 142-153, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-663-13847-1_7 .