Britian's Hanson has simplified itself in building materials supply, and the U.S. has the demand.
Together the Coke and Heinz bottles share a common materials platform that, as others adopt it, will result in growing scale economies, lower unit costs and more stable materials supply.
Part of it funds the next round of letters of credit the manufacturer will use to ensure a steady supply of raw materials over the life of the supply contract.
Sales were also healthy at building materials and garden supply stores, as well as electronics and appliance stores.
In it, he pointed out that some 126 hectares of traditional land had been granted to Padang to supply raw materials for cement.
Because building materials were in short supply, he invented a new concrete-making process that enabled him to build a factory and go into production.
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Finally, the supply of raw materials is likely to surge in the decade ahead in response to the global resource investment boom, putting further pressure on prices.
The good supply of raw materials - leather for making shoes - and its good geographic location, allowing easy access to Europe and the rest of Africa, were also factors.
It is rare for investors to take physical delivery of commodities, so no raw materials are removed from the supply chain (another reason why investors are unlikely to affect spot prices).
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Angel said it was nearing the end of negotiations with a "sizeable customer" on a long-term supply contract for materials supplied directly from ABL. The group expects other contracts to follow.
Antidumping duties on magnesium, polyvinyl chloride, and hot-rolled steel, for example, enable petitioning U.S. companies that often dominate domestic supply of raw materials to foreclose alternative sources and then thrust higher prices on their U.S. customers.
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In collaboration with the NPD Group, its parent company, DisplaySearch uniquely offers a true end-to-end view of the display supply chain from materials and components to shipments of electronic devices with displays to sales of major consumer and commercial channels.
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Universal Display Corporation, who supply the phosphorescent raw materials, would not confirm.
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Because the situation in Japan continues to develop, supply interruptions related to materials and components from Japan could manifest themselves in the weeks ahead.
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That means measuring and reducing the embodied energy of a product throughout the supply chain, from materials extraction to processing to transportation to product use and disposal.
AV's industrial fast charging systems support thousands of electric materials handling vehicles in mission-critical supply chains for Fortune 500 enterprises.
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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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Petrol and raw materials for industry are in extremely short supply.
That would bolster the global market for these precious commodities, reducing costs from raw materials all the way across the manufacturing supply chain, and ultimately to consumers.
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China runs a deficit with most of its trading partners, which supply oil, other raw materials and industrial components, and makes up for it by running large surpluses with its U.S. and European export markets.
"We may experience a significant disruption in the supply of fabrics or raw materials from current sources or, in the event of a disruption, we may be unable to locate alternative materials suppliers of comparable quality at an acceptable price, or at all, " the company said in the filing.
But a quarter of the resources come from the supply chain, from sourcing raw materials.
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If Mr Mesa survives to 2007, a vital part of his job will be to help supply Bolivia with the missing raw materials of democracy.
The materials then goes through a multi-tiered supply chain where they are sold and possibly resold several times before reaching facilities that specialize in either cutting and polishing gemstones and diamonds, or turning raw precious metal into jewelry-grade material.
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Second, disruptive new business models are overwhelmingly likely to be hybrids that bring together at least two different innovations in areas that include product design, supply chain organization, retailing models, materials science research, manufacturing and organizational effectiveness.
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With only two washing facilities in the country and no domestic supply of fabrics, trims or even packaging materials, long lead times are required.
The potential applications, Raptopoulos explained, include delivery of medicines to disconnected areas, enabling farmers to supply products directly to customers and providing vital materials to areas cut off by natural disasters.
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"Combining the world class-technology and materials expertise of Nanosys with the engineering, design and supply chain capabilities of 3M will unlock a powerful new color viewing experience for consumers, " said Jim Bauman, Vice President of the Optical Systems Division at 3M.
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Second, as Shell President John Hofmeister pointed out in his testimony, prices are shooting skyward in part because of rising demand in China and India, the rising cost of materials and labor, and international events, such as supply disruptions in the Niger Delta.
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