By contrast, the total cost of salaries and material expenses for the Dutch monarchy increased 4.5%, according to Mr. Matthijs' calculations.
However, with the demand for clothing picking up alongside the shortage of cotton, the cost of the raw material has soared.
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For high value manufacturing, product variety is the single biggest driver of cost as it dictates the material requirements and inventory, which is typically over 80 percent of the total cost.
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This bill of material cost, along with other factors such as the cut Nokia gives to its operator and retail partners makes up the retail price of the phone.
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Mr. DOUGLAS FAULKNER (Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy): We think in six years, we can bring down the cost of ethanol from cellulosic material, to be cost competitive with gasoline.
Can adding 50% more labor cost and 20% more material cost actually increase sales of a stagnating product in a highly competitive luxury market space?
Bulk buying of parts reduces each division's material cost (about 60% of the cost of an RV) by up to 4%.
In technical terms, the process starts with the transformation of organic material using cost effective, intermediate technologies, into a highly digestive diet for pigs, ducks and chicken.
It said it had been struggling because of more competition, material cost increases and a drop in demand for its products.
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In 2009, Esa funded a pilot project to examine the cost and practicality of establishing a European source of material for Radioactive Power Sources (RPS).
The prosecution's star witness, one-time oil industry executive Bill Allen, has testified that he sent people on his payroll to work on the Stevens renovation, and that he absorbed tens of thousands of dollars in labor and material cost.
That decreased the cost and increased the speed, efficiency and availability of print material.
Citi's Benson believes the German company Wacker Chemie should be least affected by the feed-in tariffs because of its low-cost position in polysilicon, a material used to make solar panels.
They were crippled in their battle against the Scots by the simple fact that wine, their raw material, cost up to 20 times the price of barley.
Let me provide a look at how a car company tracks profitability of a product program: measured are material cost and labor, and these are deducted from the selling price.
Costs for coal are highly dependent on the cost of gasoline, and the costs for wind are highly dependent on material costs like steel and concrete as wind requires about 10 times the amount of steel, concrete and copper per kWhr than any other energy source.
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Besides the tragically high human and material cost, the latest deluge harbors another sad aspect: much of the losses could have been prevented.
"TV manufacturers strongly believe in 3D and are driving its cost downward, but its value to consumers relies strongly on the availability of quality material to watch, " Gray concluded.
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With the increasing availability of low cost technologies for both production and post-production, this training material will help to fulfil a vital need for the democratization of the non-print media.
And your collection mechanism has to cost you less than the additional value you get by having more material at the end of it.
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Similarly, advertising faces some of the same pressures from the amafessionals, as low-cost programs give consumers an increasing ability to turn out professional-looking material at costs a fraction of what they were.
Asbestos has a lot of uses but I don't subscribe to the view that it is the only low-cost feasible material.
Crude oil, or its substitutes, will be produced for decades, but at an increasingly expensive tariff, both in terms of cost and energy, as it is sourced in the form of a heavy, sour (high-sulphur) material, or in synthetic form from tar-sands, shale and coal.
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