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.
The company provides systems for testing and examining the mechanical behavior of materials, products and structures, as well as instrumentation for factory automation.
Salespeople buy marketing materials and products directly from Herbalife.
Then, in May, the Pentagon's Defence Contract Management Agency announced an inquiry into allegations that the company was violating the (aptly-named) Berry amendment, which has prohibited the use of foreign materials in products bought by the Department of Defence for more than 50 years.
Products include respirators, surveillance equipment, radio frequency identification equipment, insulation, weatherproofing materials, cleaning products, mats, and granules for asphalt shingles.
The company also uses advanced materials to manufacture products for scientific, semiconductor and environmental markets.
Firms with a big exposures to raw materials and commodity products have faced rising input costs as of late.
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Members of the congregation used the money to buy materials and make products which they could then sell at a profit.
It hires all sorts of people, and it purchases all sorts of materials to make products that have little value or that none buy, all in the rush to stimulate demand.
The Other Building Materials and Equipment Business segment offers wooden interior furnishing materials, interior fabrics, external tiles for houses and buildings, internal decorative tiles, siding, stone materials, roofing materials, precut products, and solar power generation systems.
These companies are principally engaged in the business of producing raw materials, including paper or wood products, chemicals, construction materials, and mining and metals.
The consumer products giant trimmed its full-year forecast though, reflecting higher materials prices that are impacting products like diapers and baby wipes.
Another Detroit boutique company, Pure Detroit, began selling Detroit-themed materials and Michigan made products in 1998.
Mr FitzGerald expects online activity to transform the way in which the firm obtains its products and materials.
It supplies tapes, dressings, wound closure products, casting materials, electrodes, stethoscopes, drapes and masks.
The polyurethanes, performance products, advanced materials and textile effects segments manufacture and supply organic chemicals, while the pigments segment produces inorganic chemicals.
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These new materials enable designers to create products that are stronger, lighter, more energy efficient, and more durable than anything that exists today.
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Due out in coming months is an array of 200 products using alternative materials: totes, laundry hampers and trash cans made from aluminum, wicker, canvas, sea grass.
Koch tends to invest in industries that convert raw materials into higher-value products, with complicated operations that require a lot of engineering talent and constant innovation in production methods.
Dutch conservative MEP Peter van Dalen said it was time to "stop talking and move to action", claiming that biodiversity is the basis of all the EU's food products and raw materials.
Just as companies take raw materials and refine them into products, so (increasingly) do they also take raw information and add value from a chain of five activities: information gathering, organising, selecting, synthesising and distributing.
Publications, multimedia products and UNESCO materials relating to the climate change knowledge base will be made available at the UNESCO booth (booth 59), where you can discuss the UNESCO Climate Change Initiative and the broad range of related actions with UNESCO staff.
For more concrete products, manufacturers have moved towards cheaper materials in order to reduce production costs, but the result can be products that fall apart sooner.
Shapeways prints more than 10, 000 unique products every month from materials that range from stainless steel to glass, plastics and sandstone.
As housing starts surged at the end of 2012 so too did demand for Spangler's building and construction materials supplier National Gypsum's products.
Imagine the headaches at Dow Chemical, whose business is turning hydrocarbons into products like Styrofoam and materials for everything from shampoo to electronics.
Quality wine begins in the vineyard and requires that both the raw materials (grapes) and final products (the wine itself) are handled really well.
Smaller crews of more highly trained workers who can switch jobs with ease, as the research engineers upstream of them dream up new ways to manufacture products using fewer raw materials and less labor.
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The future growth of the Valley hangs less on under-age college boys in search of tequila than on maquiladoras which assemble duty-free materials with cheap Mexican labour into products for export back into the United States.
In these cases, selection is probably acting on the cost in materials and energy of making the products of the introduced genes (in other words, the protein that bypasses the herbicide, or the poison that protects against the insect).
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