Henk reported that Henri Poulenc was said to be selling the plastic ring at aboun the same price as the PWI steel ring; since the production cost of the plastic ring would be much less than the steel, he emphasized that PWI was ignoring a good profit margin if it did not introduce a plastic ring. As the meeting concluded, it was decided that the company should prepare to manufacture the new ring as soon as possible but that until the inventories of the old model and the steel were