Japanese electric-furnace steelmakers, who complain of scrap-metal shortages, are being forced to cut production.
About 112 million tons of demand were lost during the crisis, so producers were forced to cut production to catch up.
The official said around 30 factories in the busy industrial area had been forced to halt production for the day over fears of violence.
Other refineries were forced to cut production owing to supply shortages.
For example, ConocoPhillips, an oil and gas company, warned on April 23rd that without the pipeline it would be forced to suspend production from its giant Britannia field.
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The ministers are buoyed by the news and will not be forced to cut production to accommodate charter member Iraq as that nation's oil industry remains devastated by the combat and the looting that followed.
Last year a mineworkers' strike forced ARM to halt production at the Modikwa platinum mine for 24 days.
In the 14 weeks that followed, more than 50 scripted television series, including Walt Disney-owned ABC's Desperate Housewives and General Electric-owned NBC's The Office, were forced to shut down production, and several high-profile films were put on hold.
The row forced the Tatas to move production out of West Bengal and make the car elsewhere.
That is boosted cash flow, but it has also led to lack of product in some markets, and forced RIM to ramp up production to meet demand.
Sudan's oil industry suffered when fighting in Heglig forced a halt to oil production in those fields, which account for about half of the country's production of 115, 000 barrels a day.
As these and other policies boosted savings by constraining consumption, other policies, like those aimed at engineering massive loans to capital-intensive manufacturing at very low interest rates, forced rapid growth in domestic production.
Sudan's oil industry suffered further when fighting in Heglig forced a halt to oil production in those fields, which account for about half of the country's entire production of 115, 000 barrels a day.
These companies are forced to keep drilling to meet production quotas long after they stop making money by doing so.
But oil companies are likely to invest less in boosting production if they are forced to divert billions of dollars toward reverse-engineering a smaller pipeline.
Disruption of production and absenteeism have forced the Zimbabwe Tobacco Association to postpone the start of the tobacco selling season, due to begin on 26 April.
The company was forced to revise lower fourth quarter production to 225, 000 to 235, 000 ounces of gold, putting consolidated production guidance for the year to 415, 000 to 425, 000 ounces of gold.
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Randox had previously warned it was concerned about possible contamination with dioxins and other chemicals and said it may be forced to move some of its production to County Donegal were the incinerator to go ahead.
As I noted a previous post, Western Digital late yesterday said that flooding in its factories has forced the company to shut down production, with little hope of returning to normal levels for at least the next few quarters.
Rising pay in China has forced companies to find less-costly production locales, especially for goods that require armies of laborers such as apparel, shoes and linens.
The most likely outcome is that Western Digital will be forced to sell a badly needed potential production plant at a time when its Thailand operations have been hard hit by the Fall Thailand floods.
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The company is still dealing with the problem of low-quality ore from the mine, which forced the company to significantly reduce its copper production outlook for the year.
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The company was forced to sell off 90% of the production, ceding control to BP Amoco, in order to finance a multibillion-dollar project that included pipelines to carry the oil 500 miles from the Andes to Colombia's coast.
It was forced to sell off 90% of the production, ceding control to BP Amoco, in order to finance a multibillion-dollar project that included pipelines to carry the oil 800 kilometers from the Andes to the coast of Colombia.
Those quotas forced rich-world clothing companies to spread their production across many countries, but when they go, production is likely to become more concentrated in China.
Shortly prior to its ceasefire announcement MEND had carried out its boldest attack against Nigeria's oil installations since it launched its campaign of violence in late 2005, when an attack on Shell's Bongo facility, 120km out to sea, forced the Anglo-Dutch major temporarily to halt production equivalent to about 10% of Nigeria's output, and to declare force majeure.
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As the costs of production in stagnant sectors rise, firms are forced to raise prices.
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As Tepco is forced to reckon with the supply shortages, it will have to resume production in several of its other plants which have been shutdown.
If the currency were forced to appreciate, the costs of those inputs would decline, reducing the cost of production and the cost of final goods to U.S. consumers.
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