But in Toulouse last week Tom Williams, Airbus's head of manufacturing, dropped a hint that the firm's other factory in Britain (at Filton, near Bristol) could lose to French or German plants when Airbus starts making wing panels from composite materials rather than aluminium.
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The document also encourages the use of locally-sourced building materials, rather than bringing it in from elsewhere, when repairs are made to historic sites.
Silicon photonics made with inexpensive silicon rather than expensive and exotic optical materials provides a distinct cost advantage over older optical technologies in addition to providing greater speed, reliability and scalability benefits.
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At the ceremony Boeing affirmed that the virgin test flight of the world's first big airliner to be made largely of composite materials, rather than aluminium, would take place by the end of June.
Government-supported initiatives such as UK NetYear and the planned National Grid for Learning have focused on the process of connecting schools to the Internet and providing online materials, rather than on setting lower-rate or free access.
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Metamaterials are materials that have properties purposefully designed rather than determined by their chemistry.
Flaws added that the company expects Q3 sales in the Specialty Materials unit to be flat sequentially, rather than an increase in the upper single digit range, which is what they previously had expected.
Because of the materials used in construction - carbon fibre rather than aluminium - as well as new engines and aerodynamics, Boeing says the Dreamliner is about 20% more fuel efficient than similarly-sized models flying today.
Everything about the company, from its use of recyclable materials in its packaging to its use of ordinary women rather than supermodels in its advertisements, is designed to emphasise the twin themes of naturalness and sustainability.
Rather than the expensive process of creating semiconductors to capture this energy, the potential materials needed to obtain this effect are much cheaper.
In health, as in other industries, the raw materials can sometimes be moved to where there is skilled labour, rather than vice versa.
Moreover, for all the rhetoric of functionalism, even in their own time the most notable 1920s and '30s Bauhaus buildings and objects were really aesthetic explorations of new materials and techniques, or conceptual critiques of life in an industrial age--rather than technological inventions or discoveries in the scientific sense.
Rather than cheap plaster and vinyl siding, makers of upscale factory housing use everything from precast concrete panels to building materials recycled from soybeans and newsprint.
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