Cardboard shipping materials from various GM plants are recycled into sound-dampening material in the headliners of the Buick Lacrosse and Verano to help keep the cabin quiet.

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The stuff is put through a strainer to remove random debris, then sucked via tubes into a vacuum system that blends it with other polyurethane scraps recovered from car dashboards and shipping materials.

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Due to regulatory and liability pressures, it is important for chemicals companies to focus on managing the risk of making and shipping hazardous materials.

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Promoters say it is well situated for shipping raw materials from China and the Russian Far East to the rest of Asia, or Asian-made goods across the Trans-Siberian railroad to Europe.

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Temple-Inland is the third-largest producer of corrugated packaging materials in North America, serving the shipping and construction markets.

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What has been proven is that if you are one of the top spenders, innovation will impact gross margin (the percentage of revenue left over after subtracting the costs of materials, labor, manufacturing, and direct shipping, and after paying other expenses incurred in making the products or services sold).

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Construction is all about creating materials such as brick, cement and wallboard in one place and shipping it to another place, all of which uses energy.

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There are few industries more tied to global growth than dry bulk shipping, as these ships are responsible for carrying the materials required in economic expansion.

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For years, analysts have warned of the impending oversupply in the dry bulk shipping markets as newbuilds were coming online faster than demand for raw materials was growing.

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