Taking into account labor, materials, transportation, and energy costs, the chemicals, primary metals, and heavy equipment manufacturing industries stand to benefit most from maintaining or expanding facilities in the U.S. Companies in wood, plastic, and rubber products could also benefit significantly, but their lower net imports might limit their benefits from on-shoring.
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Walker responds to "targets" which are made from lengths of wood and blue plastic.
Despite being some 100 yards from a NATO power -- the doorstep of Europe -- and a developed economy, they scavenge for wood and burn plastic to keep warm.
The job consists of us carvers carving decorative items out of poplar from which molds will be made and then casts made of wood-like plastic produced for sale in Woolworths, Kresges and other fine stores.
They then oversee the manufacturing of the wood, resin and plastic game pieces and the cardboard playing surface.
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The bags, which contained waste such as plastic, wood and metal, should have been sent to the Low Level Waste Repository, at Drigg.
It included bricks, plastic, wood, glass, plaster and insulation fibres.
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There is no plastic, no wood, no carpeting, only metal and leather and some rubber mats.
Makeshift straw thatch and wood huts roofed by blue plastic sheeting sprawl in all directions, covering endless miles.
Government evictions and the destruction of the feeble structures, usually just bits of plastic tarp and wood, are fairly commonplace.
At its peak, Jardim Gramacho had about 5, 000 catadores, people who spend their days scouring landfills for plastic, paper, wood, metal and anything else that can be sold to recycling companies.
About half of its 10, 000 North American locations are being rebuilt or refurbished to yield more wood, metal and artwork, and fewer plastic seats.
Dow's materials-engineering center is busy brainstorming ways that plastic can be used to replace wood and steel in durable goods, particularly home appliances and auto parts.
Just so we are clear about this particular waste let me explain directly from the European Topic Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production: CND waste includes soils, concrete, bricks, glass, wood, plasterboard, asbestos, metals and plastic.
Unfortunately, it's harder to love the goofy faux-wood texture that's been baked into the plastic -- it's very much like bad 80s rec room wallpaper.
Mr Twombly, who is being given his first retrospective in 15 years, uses materials that have come to him at random bits of wood, cardboard, bronze boxes, palm leaves and plastic flowers.
The frame is no longer assembled from laser-etched wood, instead there's a powder-coated steel frame with PVC plastic sides to help shield the various moving parts and lend an air of professionalism to the affair.
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