Moving almost all production overseas--to Latin America and Asia--helped to boost operating (that is, Ebitda) margins from 8% three years ago to 14% now.
Today, almost all production is in China and other Asian countries.
As a result, there is almost no domestic production of rare earths in the United States.
The relentless rise in demand for electricity has resulted in nuclear reactors ramping up production almost to capacity.
They almost doubled their production in the quarter and it will likely continue to grow as the year rolls on.
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With the advent of the Eagle Ford Shale in 2008, shale natural gas production almost tripled in Texas between 2009 and 2012.
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Half a million smallholders in Ghana alone use such techniques, and in Burkina Faso they have helped almost triple vegetable production over the past 15 years.
The company said it expects iron-ore production to almost double and that its steel business would improve as well.
Alsatian wineries tend to be family run, intimate operations and production is almost always small lot and high quality.
Many mid-market brands have already moved almost all of their production abroad.
Combined with the wells in the properties purchased from Exxon of 20, 000 BOE, total production suddenly almost doubled to 46 BOE per day.
At Petroecuador, the state oil company, a lack of investment and other problems have cut production by almost 40% over the last decade.
The article also states that China has about a third of the rare earth deposits globally and accounts for almost all of the production.
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Over the last decade the city has concentrated on developing its tourism, education, financial and cultural sectors to diversify its economy, which until recently relied almost exclusively on oil production.
Izhar Gafni, from Israel, spent 18 months just folding the material every-which-way in order to discover a strong enough design, and now he claims his technique is almost ready for mass production.
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"Caviar in France is produced in a very traditional way, with techniques almost identical to the production of wild caviar in Iran and Russia, " says Alan Jones, a caviar consultant and former producer.
Almost all of its production is exported.
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Mines belonging to AngloGold Ashanti have ceased production for almost a month, while workers at another Gold Fields mine - KDC East - have not yet returned to work but this relates to a local union dispute not wages.
Still, he's thwarted by the production's almost total, and truly absurd, absence of fun.
The steadily declining cost of refrigeration has made almost all elements of food production more cost-effective and energy-efficient.
We figured out the production part and almost finished our website but later we realized that we had to stop it.
There are doubts about how green ethanol really is (some say the production process uses almost as much energy as it produces).
Though pipelines have begun operating again after Katrina, 40% of the region's natural gas production, and almost 60% of oil output, is still shut down.
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In the UK, during 2012, electricity generation from coal-fired power stations actually increased to almost 40% of total production, as the price of gas soared, and gas-fired electricity generation was reduced.
Virtually the entire Iraqi population would have a stake in making sure insurgents didn't disrupt oil production, and almost every Iraqi would have an incentive to have a bona fide address at which to collect the checks.
In the case of The Firm, when Sony and Entertainment One went to NBC with the show, almost the entire cost of production had already been covered by the international pre-sales and by tax credits the production would earn from shooting in Canada.
"We're almost at the point of reducing production by 40 or 50%, " he says.
However, it has since soared again, and the United Nations reckons that the country will produce 3, 400 tonnes this year, almost three-quarters of world production.
The U.S. met production goals that were almost inconceivably ambitious.
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