These products, in turn become essential components in even more numerous downstream products.
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The Industrial Products segment produces flame retardants (FR) and a variety of bromine compounds as well as other chemicals based primarily on rich mineral resources found in the Dead Sea, and the Performance Products segment is a phosphate powerhouse that produces a number of downstream products for food and industrial applications, offering solutions for the food, cleaning products, fire safety, coatings and electronics industries.
Last quarter, lower realized aluminum and alumina prices offset growth in downstream engineered products and gains from productivity improvements.
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Or the consumers who eventually buy the products far downstream?
This translates to up to three times higher data rate on the downstream compared to currently deployed products.
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The steamboats will have to navigate a gauntlet of locks and dams, and paddle among huge barges heading downstream laden with coal and petroleum products.
Monsanto is a global provider of technology-based solutions and agricultural products for growers and downstream customers, such as grain processors and consumers, in the agricultural markets.
This consists, first, of paying too much attention to the upstream development of new inventions and technologies by scientists and engineers, and too little to the downstream process of turning these inventions into products that tempt people to part with their money, and, second, of the belief that national leadership in upstream activities is the same thing as leadership in generating economic value from innovation.
Some luxury brands considered and even implemented a downstream approach, offering promotions and lower priced products.
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First of all, it ignores the fact that the value chain is connected to the environment, that resources are being extracted at the upstream end and that consumers are dumping their used products back into the environment at the downstream end.
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Joe Atiemo of the Cocoa Board of Ghana is one of the believers. (108K AIFF sound or 108K WAV sound) There are plans in the country for more downstream cocoa processing and more factories to export cocoa products, including high-quality chocolate.
The principal product is polyvinyl chloride resin, which is supplied to downstream subsidiaries to manufacture and market end-user industrial and consumer products.
At the moment, the government subsidizes the downstream sector of the petroleum industry and dictates the price of fuel products, a move which Dangote says has impeded growth in the sector.
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That means everything from the import of refined petroleum, to investment, products, services, technology, and support for both upstream and downstream operations in Iran.
Downstream activities generally refer to the refining of crude oil and distributing its by-products including gasoline, natural gas, LPG and diesel.
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These measures skew the playing field against the United States and other countries by creating substantial competitive benefits for downstream Chinese producers that use the inputs in the production and export of numerous processed steel, aluminum and chemical products and a wide range of further processed products.
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