The company is aggressively trying to adjust the output at many of its steel producing plants as well as raw material resources in order to maintain profitability.
Furthermore, she says, dog hair has a certain cachet as a raw material for art.
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Until now, Washington politics has been taken on as the raw material of a biting comedy.
It follows the discovery of horse DNA in burgers imported as a raw material from Poland by the firm.
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Labor costs, as well as volatile raw material expenses, badly impaired the business.
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The monetary base has been treated, not as money itself, but as the raw material from which money is created.
Nucor ( NUE) is the largest U.S. operator of mini-mills, smaller steel facilities that use scrap as their raw material.
But with a global capacity glut in 2001 chemical prices softened, even as raw material costs like natural gas began a fivefold price increase.
But it, like many other chemical companies, feel the pain more acutely because petroleum is used as a raw material and to transport their goods.
Like many chemical companies, Huntsman suffered from rapidly escalating petroleum costs, which is used as a raw material, to power its processes and transport its goods.
This is due to stable nature of the business, as raw material costs have been relatively stable thanks to long-term purchasing agreements with farmers and growers worldwide.
But by then the firm was addicted to the stuff, using it as raw material for collateralized debt obligations it could package and sell for rich fees.
But some are also thought to harbour water ice, which could be used as a raw material for the manufacture of rocket propellant or even breathable air.
In his woodwork he tried to bring out those souls rather than treat the wood as so much raw material.
In traditional manufacturing processes, such as machining, material is removed from a piece of raw material to produce a part, also known as subtractive manufacturing.
In the Middle Ages it was discovered to be a rich source of aluminium sulphate - a crucial raw material used as a fixing agent in dyeing cloth.
ArcelorMittal estimated that shipments will decline in the second half of 2011 as industrial consumers built up their raw material inventories during the first half.
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However, Belarus has been able to overcome some of these economic difficulties due to its key location as a transit route for the raw material transported between Russia and other former Soviet Republics to Western Europe, and to large Russian subsidies.
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After years of declining raw-material prices, clothes firms such as Gap announced profit warnings and saw their shares whacked.
It's not all about preserving the everyman's favorite refreshment, either, as the new material will likely lead to the need for fewer raw materials, meaning there's a positive environmental impact too.
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With glass as well as plastic in mind you might want to look into another raw material, soda ash.
This means still higher profit margins as these higher rates take hold, more than mitigating increased raw material costs and lending impetus to higher than consensus earnings extending into next year and beyond.
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The other raw material for photosynthesis, carbon dioxide, will be supplied as the exhaust from industrial plants such as power stations, oil refineries and natural-gas processors.
Among the mutual fund groups that saw inflows this year as oil prices along with gold and silver have steadily climbed the charts are raw material and commodity-related funds.
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Sustainability software can provide alerts if plans are made to purchase prohibited raw material, help report on safety related or environmental incidents, as well as plan optimal responses to those incidents.
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Because components differ a great deal in terms of size, raw material bases and manufacturing methods, it's hard to see them as one monolithic industry.
Much of the nuclear industry's raw material, uranium, by contrast, is conveniently located in friendly places such as Australia and Canada.
Analysts estimate that raw material costs will increase in fiscal 2012, though the company cites operational improvements and increased pricing as able to offset this.
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