With factories across the region, the company concentrates its high-end work in Hong Kong and labor-intensive production in China.
As I understand it, Austrians believe easy money produces low interest rates, which causes a shift toward more capital-intensive production methods.
It uses a more labour-intensive production system than the Japanese firms it competes with to take advantage of low labour costs.
Astute Indian industrialists such as Mr Kalyani have moved into capital-intensive production.
Because of inflexibility in the labour market and high labour costs, German companies do much of their labour-intensive production abroad, keeping the capital-intensive operations at home.
High taxes favor capital intensive production, small businesses and entrepreneurs.
Farmers have moved towards more capital-intensive production and cut jobs.
In Dongguan, factory managers face the choice of increasing wages (which they have hardly adjusted for years), shifting to less labour-intensive production or moving to areas where cheap labour is more abundant.
It has led to deforestation in countries like Brazil, for instance, and, in countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), intensive livestock production has become a major source of pollution.
The reserve life of a typical gold mine is no more than 10 years so the reinvestment rate for exploration and incremental production is capital intensive.
What we need is to make large-scale mechanized food production less carbon-intensive and more sustainable.
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"Poland is becoming one of the biggest country's for production that is labor intensive, " he added.
Because meat production is so resource intensive, livestock farming actually accounts for 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
The ioFX is also designed to accelerate video playback and rendering, video and image editing and compositing, encoding and transcoding as well as other data-intensive activities required in contemporary digital production.
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It has happened because rich-world companies have replaced workers with new technology to boost productivity and shifted production from labour-intensive products such as textiles to higher-tech, higher value-added, sectors such as pharmaceuticals.
Within this decade, we will see 3D printers doing the small-scale production of previously labor-intensive crafts and goods.
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Many communities have therefore expressed concern about their water quality, in addition to the production process that is carbon intensive.
By the end of this decade, we will see 3D printers doing the small-scale production of previously labor-intensive crafts and goods.
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With most of the work done by hand without any help from modern technology, its production is a lengthy and labour-intensive process.
Production of crops and livestock is water-intensive, and agriculture alone accounts for 70% of all water withdrawn by the combined agriculture, municipal and industrial (including energy) sectors.
As oil and gas firms spend increasingly large parts of their budgets to explore and develop new sources of oil, gas and unconventional sources of hydrocarbons, upstream services firms like Halliburton are expected to reap the windfall as the exploration and production of oil become more challenging and technologically intensive.
He needs to attract partners and fresh capital to make his ventures, most of them capital intensive start-ups, bring in expected revenues and reach production targets.
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This has been achieved through extensive development, strict quality control, and a stringent pre-production testing requirement of 400 drives passing 500 hours of intensive tests with zero errors.
As oil production falls and oil prices rise, research will become more intensive as industry puts both feet forward to develop the next generation of energy technology.
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.
Unconventional oil production (whether from shale or oil sands) is an energy-intensive process, and emits more CO2 than conventional extractive methods do.
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America's export boom is likely to be led by firms that are already global in scale and by sectors in which America has a clear competitive advantage: sophisticated, knowledge-intensive capital goods like microprocessors, and high-end services like engineering, oil-production services and even (witness KPF) architecture.
The production of modern wind turbines, solar panels and nuclear power plants are extremely energy-intensive enterprises, and are by and large powered by the burning of fossil fuels.
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As a result, production the bioengineered chemicals, materials and living systems is limited by the time-consuming and resource-intensive processes involved in producing them.
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