And supply chains are getting longer as companies source more raw materials and parts from cheaper overseas markets.
Founded in 1986, South Carolina-based 3D Systems manufactures 3D printers, print materials and custom parts.
Networking is done face-to-face through regular meetings as well as throught web- and print-materials, linking women and their groups from different parts of this geographically distinct municipality.
For instance, suppliers who have near-monopolies on crucial parts and materials may be pressed to spread their production facilities geographically.
Many factories operate at half capacity because strict currency controls make it hard for them to pay for imported parts and materials.
Many Venezuelan factories operate at half capacity because strict currency controls make it hard for them to pay for imported parts and materials.
First and foremost economics: China already is or will in time become that largest and fastest growing market for a range of Japanese exports, a key production base for its industrial companies, and a source of important imports, from finished goods, to parts, to primary materials and food.
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Professor Erwin Emmerling of the Technical University of Munich, Germany, said reconstruction of the female Buddha is possible, using remaining parts and other materials, according to the university's website.
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The recklessness of that action sent shock waves through the boardrooms of every Japanese company that has come to rely upon China not just for raw materials, but for intermediate parts and, of course, for finished goods.
Many of the known thefts or attempted thefts of the most dangerous nuclear materials have taken place in Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union.
Stratasys boasts an impressive portfolio of 3D printing and direct digital manufacturing solutions, with systems that produce parts with a wide range of capabilities and materials.
Although most of the building dates from the 16th Century, there are still parts that contain Roman and medieval materials.
Mrs Hunt uses materials including drink cans, takeaway containers, computer parts and babies' dummies.
Many aircraft parts are made from highly specialised metals and other materials: will there be enough of these to go around?
Longer stoppages would be even more expensive, as more and more parts of the economy were touched by a shortage of materials.
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The fixed fee model works for design stages with easily defined goals that are unlikely to change, while parts with less clear objectives are better served via time and materials.
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Umasi, a collection of work by artist Wells Mason, blurs the line between sculpture and furniture, with man-made materials such as stainless steel and tempered glass colliding with organic (exquisitely finished woods) and even obviously salvaged materials (a telephone pole, recycled rubber, bicycle parts).
He runs advanced composite materials, which makes a kind of artificial diamond used to cut and shape jet engine parts.
When you look at major parts of the economy like technology, health care, basic industries, energy and even raw materials producers of copper, iron ore and chemicals, you find them flooded with cash.
Aid agencies offer free building materials to those who will help clear up the dead conger eels, oil drums and concrete girders that litter newly drained parts of the town.
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