The resurrection of American manufacturing will require more than simply bringing back production to America.
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Every manufacturer, except Matsushita ( Panasonic), is scaling back production due to the increase in demand for plasma's arch-rival, LCD.
Those who are surviving so far have cut back production, laid off employees or suspended plans to build more factories.
But the plant is designed to be flexible, so it can add new models, or cut back production if necessary.
Deflation amplifies the negative impacts of an economic downturn as falling prices are market signals to producers to cut back production.
After the pipeline was shut down, Alyeska ordered all North Slope producers to scale back production to 5% of normal levels.
But Chrysler wildly overestimated demand for its vehicles, built too many and had to sharply cut back production in the third quarter.
The resurrection of American manufacturing will require more than simply bringing back production to America or making things a bit more efficiently.
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This creates a self-sustaining negative feed back loop as prices fall, produces cut back production, creating more unemployment, reducing demand, which increase deflationary pressures.
In 2005 BP's Thunder Horse production platform in the Gulf experienced equipment problems that required high repair costs and set back production for three years.
Carmakers in Japan and America have had to scale back production.
An oversupply of solar panels in the global market and a tariff recently set by the U.S. government prompted the decision to scale back production, Suntech said.
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Apple is reportedly cutting back production of its hot-selling iPhones.
If you follow the natural gas sector, you might remember that Chesapeake was one of the first in the group to announce plans to scale back production due to plunging prices.
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Conceding the point, Dow has cut back production of chemicals in North America and is content, in effect, to collect a fee for showing the Arabs how to run a chemical plant.
After spending years closing plants and battling with its U.S. unions to get cost-savings, Ford is adding back production and is running at nearly full capacity, said Jim Tetreault, Ford's North American manufacturing chief.
With the country set to celebrate its lunar new year festival in early February, companies have already started scaling back production and tens of millions of workers have begun their annual mass migration from their factories and city jobs back to their rural homes.
Natural gas output fell 5.9 percent worldwide, driven by an 8.7 percent decline in the U.S. Exxon and other domestic gas producers cut back production starting last year after U.S. natural gas prices fell to decade-lows in the wake of the historically warm winter of 2011 - 2012.
"Harley's true earnings and cash flow generating power are held back by production, " says Yurman.
Furry Vengeance is one of those films that only earned back its production budget.
If this should happen, however, OPEC will likely cut back on production and thereby prop up the price.
Most deals these days are structured so that stars don't start earning until the studio has earned back its production and advertising spend.
It looks like chances are very slim that the film will earn back its production and marketing costs let alone turn a profit.
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At prevailing prices, miners are scrambling throughout Australia, the United States and Canada to bring old mines back into production and begin mining new resources.
Across the country, manufacturers are beginning to cut back on production so they can clear out the warehouses, where stored products are literally collecting dust.
He concluded that the release reduced prices by only 3.5%, largely because oil producers (the Saudis in particular) responded to the new crude by cutting back on production.
If a country's comparative advantage lies in slow-growing, traditional industries, it may cut back its production in other, faster-growing industries, so its growth rate may fall.
Those costs would only increase, possibly exponentially, in the event regulators responded to public concerns that further oil leaks might emanate from offshore platforms by cutting back on production in the Gulf of Mexico.
But GM warned that it expects fourth-quarter operating profit to come in well below the level of the first three quarters of the year because it is pulling back on production of trucks and making more small cars, which have narrower margins.
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