The softness in demand for capital equipment means that for most types, machinery is readily available.
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One, someone is producing this capital equipment and the demand for that labor is increasing.
Expansion was limited by engineering manpower, capital equipment availability , and the wafer fab ecosystem.
Expenditures on capital equipment declined in the fourth quarter of 2006 and early this year.
Someone is also operating or servicing this capital equipment and the demand for that labor is increasing.
All three companies will contribute assets to the new venture, including patents, software, people, cash and capital equipment.
The obvious way to make employees more productive is to give them more, and more up-to-date, capital equipment.
It is a formidable exporter of aerospace machinery, capital equipment and medical technology.
Consider Bessemer Venture Partners' investment in Esprocket, a marketplace for used capital equipment.
Already companies such as Intevac are reporting that sales of large capital equipment to support the HDD industry are increasing.
Downturns in those sectors would, as in any recession, have ripple effects on consumer spending and business capital equipment purchases.
The risk is that higher oil prices will reduce capacity growth, for example by making some capital equipment unprofitable to use.
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While companies can generally hire employees relatively quickly to meet increasing demand, there is a definite lead-time to adding capital equipment.
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For instance, Arch Coal and Consol Energy, the second-largest and fourth-largest U.S. producers, through 2002 plan no increases in spending on new capital equipment.
The new capital equipment takes a certain amount of time (about two years in all three cases) to reach production readiness.
Dedio: The companies that buy their equipment are the big semiconductor capital equipment companies like Applied Materials and Novellus Systems.
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In manufacturing, innovations such as programmable machine tools make capital equipment more flexible, creating a demand for more flexible human capital, too.
Should they invest in new inventory and capital equipment, much less personnel?
Much of it goes into joint ventures with local partners, so Chinese land, labour and capital equipment are put to good use.
Because AAR, not unlike chip capital equipment suppliers, had expanded quickly right into the late 2008 downturn, its financials were hard hit.
Ultra Clean CEO Clarence Granger said in a statement that the company continues to see softening demand in the semi capital equipment sector.
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New regulations requiring companies to adopt cleaner processes will mean that capital equipment is replaced more quickly, to the benefit of such companies.
For instance, Arch Coal and Consol Energy, the second- and fourth-largest U.S. producers, don't plan to increase spending on new capital equipment through 2002.
Although China runs a large trade surplus with America, it runs deficits with other Asian countries from which it imports capital equipment and components.
In 2009-2011, during profitable times, semiconductor makers over-spent on capital equipment, and this has come back to bite them in the form of production overcapacity.
For businesses, a measure that lets firms write off the full cost of capital equipment in the year it is purchased is about to end.
When Reagan took office in 1981 the market value of all American assets--stocks, land, crops, houses, commercial buildings, capital equipment, cars, collectibles, precious metals, etc.
As for Mr. Laia he spent 11 years at Sandia National Labs, and a number of years in semiconductor capital equipment companies including Novellus and KLA-Tencor.
Memories are the most volatile part of semiconductors, so improvements in memories are important to driving overall semiconductor growth, along with growth in semiconductor capital equipment.
More disks and heads per drive, combined with larger HDD unit shipments in 2013 and later years will mean more spending on HDD component capital equipment.
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