Petrol and raw materials for industry are in extremely short supply.
This bureaucracy is charged with the job of securing supplies of raw materials so Chinese industry can keep humming--and paying otherwise restless workers.
The new ruling, passed June 3, gives Brazilian government owned power company Eletrobras (EBR), along with national and international equipment partners, the ability to buy capital goods, building materials, infrastructure materials and nuclear industry specific technologies for use in energy generation without having to pay the IPI, or industrial production tax, nor tariffs on imported goods.
These are important raw materials for the steel industry, among others, and China restricts their exports on the grounds that they are exhaustible resources.
Shares fell about 1% after the maker of structural materials for the aerospace industry told investors its 2011 adjusted earnings would be far below expecations.
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In Brazil, meanwhile, huge swathes of Amazon rainforest are being lost to sugarcane plantations, again for the provision of raw materials to the biofuel industry.
He bequeathed to his son two precious gifts: a love of language, and a passion for the raw materials of life and industry timber, such as western red cedar, metals, stones and minerals.
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This year Architecture 2030 introduced the 2030 Challenge for Products, which set benchmarks for reducing the carbon footprint of materials used in the building industry.
Meanwhile an industry using deadly materials spread across more than 40 countries may be about to expand farther and wider, as from Venezuela to Vietnam governments contemplate nuclear power as a source of cleaner energy.
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Government support, the state of the world aviation industry, the price of oil, customer support, World Trade Organization rulings, the speed of technological progress in composite materials, the reaction of industry behemoths Boeing and Airbus are all known unknowables which cause considerable uncertainty to the board of Bombardier.
As the aerospace industry turns to new materials like titanium and car makers shrink engines to boost efficiency, they provide machine-tool makers with new markets.
Such materials have literally hundreds of applications in industry, medicine and university research, and they are scattered about the world accordingly.
Building materials company USG compounded worries about the industry, saying that the housing market was being burdened by an excess supply of new and used homes.
As this survey will show, nanotechnology will indeed affect every industry through improvements to existing materials and products, as well as allowing the creation of entirely new materials.
They mean cheaper gas fill-ups, the survival of the airline and travel industry, and eventually cheaper materials and transportation costs embedded into every consumer and industrial product in early 2009.
DuPont will be out of that business, but will continue to develop technologically advanced products for the automotive industry, focusing on lightweight materials, environmentally friendly refrigerants, bio-based seat fabrics, and biofuels.
Congress' recent decision to raise fuel efficiency requirements has intensified the auto industry's interest in lightweight materials.
It is trying combinatorial techniques to search for other complex materials, such as catalysts for the chemical industry.
Our materials are enabling similar advances in the solar industry, and we intend to announce more about those programs shortly.
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But growth is getting more expensive, as other mining firms, and Western Australia's booming oil and gas industry, compete for labour and materials.
Globally, the nonprofit group ASTM International (formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials) sets voluntary safety standards for the industry regarding design, manufacturing, maintenance and operations.
Applied Materials sees a bright future for the semiconductor industry.
They use the highest quality materials, some of the best people in the industry and offer one of the widest varieties of bike designs.
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At the show there are companies that build manufacturing equipment for hard disk components and semiconductors although each industry also has its unique equipment, materials and processes.
The paper industry consumes a tremendous amount of energy and raw materials: thin cardboard could cut both.
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Tsuga is placing big hopes on the home building materials and white goods sales in the near term and auto industry sales further out.
Its expertise in new materials has made GKN a cornerstone of Britain's aerospace industry, said by the government to be the largest outside America and one of the shining hopes for future growth in manufacturing.
"The MultiSync EA Series has transitioned to LED backlighting, offering our enterprise customers industry-leading low power consumption and less hazardous materials, not to mention a more aesthetically pleasing product, " said Lynn Gu, Product Manager at NEC Display Solutions.
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"All the materials we take out from each aircraft could be used in other industry, especially aeronautical industry, " says Medan.
But last week's manoeuvrings around Saint-Gobain and Lafarge, two large building-materials firms, provide evidence of how much things have changed in French industry.
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