Today, energy management is a consideration throughout the procurement process and for production planning in most enterprises.
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Milchan gets on the speakerphone, calls an assistant at New Regency Enterprises, his production company, and asks to be connected to some people who earlier that day had discussed his investing in a national media company whose name Milchan would prefer not to see in print.
Other taxes on production consist of all taxes, except taxes on products, payable by enterprises in connection with their participation in the production process.
Enterprises may scale down production, reduce investments, or turn down opportunities to innovate.
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In fact, consolidation is happening because the government believes it can ensure better pollution oversight, labor conditions and quality control of production processes in large state-run enterprises than in the multitude of tiny private businesses that cut corners in pollution controls and make mistakes like getting melamine into the dairy supply chain.
The solution that Apple stores recommend is iKlear, a non-toxic liquid cleaner, which its manufacturer Meridrew Enterprises says Apple uses on its own production lines.
The purchasing, production, and investment decisions of state-owned enterprises, nationalized industries, sovereign wealth funds, and other government-influenced actors all affect markets in ways that skew outcomes away from their optimums.
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Lumbering state enterprises still dominate telecoms, transport and power production.
As with much of farming and food production, it is the large-scale industrial-commercial enterprises that draw more criticism than small family-run farms.
Authorities and state enterprises are still finding ways to bring online new production of PX a chemical used to make polyester and plastic bottles and is in increasing demand as China's appetite for consumer goods grows.
That will only change if officials let prices rise to market levels, and allow state enterprises to respond freely to market demand, rather than being ruled by production quotas fixed by economic plans.
The production of modern wind turbines, solar panels and nuclear power plants are extremely energy-intensive enterprises, and are by and large powered by the burning of fossil fuels.
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