In reality it's also a way of delivering new industrial value--that's the more exciting thing.
Unfortunately, the global industrial value chain is already extracting more resources than nature produces each year.
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Over the same period, industrial value-added was growing at a cracking 9%, said the statistics.
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August industrial value-added output, for instance, was off 0.5% from July.
Third, industrial value-added output jumped 9.2% over the same month last year.
It does not have a great deal of industrial productive value (although it has some), but why is that a problem?
Similarly, Africa should see the United States as a role model and shift its policy attention toward industrial development, starting with adding value to agricultural and mineral resources through aggressive industrial policy.
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This is the Index of Manufacturing and it charts the value of industrial production, inflation adjusted, over the years.
With new lows across all major equity averages the downside risk for the Dow Industrial Average is semiannual value levels at 9, 635 and 8, 468.
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The companies involved read like a Who's Who of industrial America: high-value, energy-intensive businesses like steel, aluminum, plastics, glass, vehicles and packaging.
The dismantling of Westinghouse's industrial business has also unlocked value for shareholders.
In a new statement, HIE said the sale in 2010 was representative of the market value of an industrial site used for smoking fish and meat.
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If most people value gardens more than industrial farmland, is it right to deny them that choice, especially when the benefits of green belts flow mostly to the rich?
Meanwhile, the fall in Germany's stockmarket, which last year was steeper than in any other big, rich economy, has cut the value of their remaining industrial holdings, taking the stuffing out of an old cushion against hard conditions.
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The land, which was sold to raise money for the Regeneration Investment Fund, varies in size and value from a former industrial site in the Cynon Valley to offices in a business park in Newport to farmland in Gwynedd.
They also allow industrial companies and insurers to realise the value of property which may be languishing on their books.
More than that, fashion is just the sort of thing Britain is supposed to be good at in this post-industrial age: creative, high-value-added, cluster-based.
Industrial diamonds are a secondary, low value but well salable product.
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Andy notes in his most recent report that value-added for larger industrial firms and fixed asset investment rose at a pace consistent with 8 to 8.5 percent GDP growth.
Physical gold is still available, but physical silver in particular, which appeals to smaller investors because it is more accessibly priced and has industrial uses as well as precious metal value can take a month or more to reach the hands of buyers.
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"We got the proverbial kick in the pants, " admits Amorim's Mr. de Jesus, before the company invested heavily in research and development and manufacturers began squeezing more value from the leftovers in their industrial production.
My annual pivot for the Dow Industrial Average at 11, 491 is a value level now with a new weekly pivot at 11, 650 and monthly and quarterly risky levels at 12, 091 and 12, 507, which are below the May 2 high at 12, 876.00.
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Canada's industrial mix contains a smaller share of high-value-added sectors than America's.
The next phase of the industrial growth of China will, consequently, involve increased value content of the products produced by Chinese companies.
The notion that cars must form the centre of every industrial economy looks pretty quaint given that the combined market value of Detroit's Big Three is dwarfed by that of Bill Gates's Microsoft.
The bill proposes a compensation of four times the market value for people who give up their land for industrial and infrastructure projects in rural India.
Bill Gross, a fixed-income champion at Pimco, an American asset-management firm, predicted last September that bond returns will outstrip equities until share prices fall to their fair value, that is, until the Dow Jones Industrial Average is at 5, 000 rather than today's 8, 000-odd.
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The DOW Industrial Average shed nearly 213 points, almost 2 percent of its value.
While financial stocks have gotten all the attention this year as the place to be for value, Swaim says Advisory Research sees more opportunity in industrial assets in the U.S. He argues these companies are generating higher cash flow.
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