Aluminum-maker Alcoa, the first of the 30 Dow Jones industrial average components to report first-quarter earnings, recorded sharply higher profits from a year ago on growing global demand for its products in material in commercial construction and aerospace.
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Therefore suppliers, processors, distributors and retailers need to step up their control and visibility across the supply chains, tracking products from raw material to the point of consumption.
Celebrities, Einhorn says, have led the way in this regard, as many are paid to tweet about products or recieve material goods and gifts in return for seemingly innocuous endorsements.
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This is significant because it strongly supports bird conservationists, who have been arguing that most outbreaks in South-East Asia can be linked to movements of poultry and poultry products or infected material from poultry farms, such as mud on vehicles or people's shoes.
Uncommon Goods includes in its online catalog a lot of products made from recycled material.
Under Ofcom rules, programmes may promote products and services if the material in question is programme-related.
Based in Dallas, Texas, Eagle is a manufacturer and distributor of building material and construction products like cement, gypsum wallboard, recycled paperboard, and concrete and aggregates.
Rounding out the top 10 where: Hangzhou Everfine Photo, a supplier of testing equipment, Shanghai CSG Smart Science, a supplier of power distribution products, Shandong Sinocera Function Material, a maker of ceramic powder for the electronics industry, Beijing Orient National Communication, a software maker, Jiangsu Yunyi, an auto parts maker, Boomsense, a supplier of repeaters, and Staidson Beijing Biopharmaceuticals, a chemicals products maker.
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By adjusting its sophisticated, computer-guided machinery, Forte was able to make its products physically leaner, using less material and lowering costs.
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While companies try to capitalize on the feature-richness, efficiency, or material quality of their products, increasing competition pushes existing products towards commoditization.
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Terms of the deal call for Samsung to pay a license fee to Universal Display, and to buy a minimum amount of phosphorescent OLED material use in OLED products.
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"We buy most of our products now from China and other countries, so perhaps it's not too surprising that to manufacture new products and packaging they need the material to go back there, " spokesman David Mansell said.
Many products also use petroleum-based raw material inputs somewhere in the suppl chain.
What more compelling evidence of the problem do we need than to note that General Motors now spends more for health care of its employees and retirees than for the material required to manufacture its products - steel.
Thanks to the technology revolution, we know more about silicon, particularly when it comes to manufacturing products in high volume, than any other material in the world.
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These raw material inputs are used to make many processed products in a number of primary manufacturing industries, including steel, aluminum and various chemical industries.
He leads a committee of supply-chain executives, currently focused on 18 "high-impact" opportunities to improve efficiency in making major products, including respiratory face masks, stethoscopes and reflective material for highway signs.
Indeed, the material rise in the gross margin of used videogame products since the consummation of the merger suggests as much.
Of late, the company has set out to integrate itself vertically, acquiring companies like Neo Material in order to control the markets for its products once they are mined and purified.
It said it had been struggling because of more competition, material cost increases and a drop in demand for its products.
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The only plastic objects that can not now be recycled are heavily contaminated items, such as paint pots and plastic products, such as carrier bags, coal sacks, and clear material used to seal food containers.
Under the WTO Antidumping Agreement (ADA), governments are permitted to have antidumping laws and to apply antidumping duties to redress dumping that is found to be a cause of material injury to the domestic industry producing the same or similar products.
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Before that I worked in the material balances department, where we had to match supplies and demands for different products.
Its products are used in the construction, road building, mining, forestry, energy, transportation and material-handling industries.
This is bad news for companies who once hoped that e-mail would be a cheap, effective means of marketing new products and services, and content companies who once hoped to save on printing costs by hawking newsletters and other material through cyberspace instead of the mailbox.
Clever though it is, this novel material is unlikely, in and of itself, to take on a starring role in high-tech products, admits Dr Claus.
It appears that Samsung has work arounds or replacement products in place so that even if Apple eventually wins a ban, the ban is not going to have a material financial impact on Samsung.
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