Sala Pipe Fittings Produce Pipe Elbows and Reducers from Stainless

Multiple Choice

Sala pipe fittings produce pipe elbows and reducers from stainless steel. The company can process up to 20 000 tonnes of stainless steel sheets in a year. The company pays the steel company $800 per tonne of stainless steel sheets and each tonne is used to manufacture $2000 worth of elbows and reducers. Variable processing costs are $470 per tonne and fixed processing costs $3.4 million per year at all production levels. Administrative overhead is $3 million per year regardless of the volume of the production. Marketing and transportation costs work out to be $230 per tonne. Determine the break-even volume in terms of percent capacity utilization.

A) 30%
B) 34%
C) 43.8%
D) 24.6%
E) 64%