Haldia is already a licensee of Basell's technology in commodity plastics, and might fancy direct access to Basell's wide expertise in more upmarket stuff.
My thesis was as follows: Chinese companies looking to buy American companies are usually looking for a valuable technology or commodity or, to a much lesser extent, a strong brand name.
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Pacific Crest Securities analyst Brent Bracelin is bullish on Dell's continued market share and sales growth, particularly in enterprise computing, since it is so focused on delivering commodity technology to the masses.
Perhaps Lucas means for his audience to see the danger of a technology that makes human life a commodity.
To this end, members of the WEF YGL are creating technology blueprints, which use widely available commodity hardware and open source software as the building blocks of high-performing, cost-effective cloud solutions.
Last week he was named to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Technology Subcommittee on Data Standardization.
Perhaps no other industry or commodity embodies the best of what modern technology has to offer better than the processes deployed during the exploration for and production of oil.
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Although the companies produce these chemicals in huge quantities, they are not commodity products because it takes Huntsman proprietary technology to make them both cheaply and at a consistent quality.
But the activists are unsatisfied with heavy regulatory burdens that require nearly a decade of extensive environmental and consumer safety testing before a new GE crop can be put on the market, a phenomenon that has made it far too expensive to use the technology to improve any but the largest-scale commodity crops.
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Volatile sectors like technology, fashion and real estate are verboten, as are commodity businesses with large fixed costs (think airlines).
Its best hope is that the solar cell industry doesn't follow the curve of the dram market it is often compared with--a once high-margin technology that turned suddenly, brutally, into a low-profit commodity market.
Food and energy, driven by (notoriously volatile) commodity prices, can experience short-lived supply disruptions tied to weather, geopolitics, technology failures, etc.
Of course, a major global economic catastrophe, or some new breakthrough in energy or agricultural technology, could bring prices down precipitously, but for the most part demographic trends seem likely to favor commodity producers over the coming decade or two.
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Technology markets historically go through a natural cycle of evolving from artificially high prices during the early adoption phase to a commodity based price during its mainstream buyer phase.
They mostly remain convinced that the problem is only temporary, that the economic reports are coming in worse than their forecasts only because they under-estimated the effect the surge in energy and commodity prices would have on consumer spending, and the effect the Japanese earthquake would have on auto and technology production.
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