This will give manufacturers the ability to dramatically increase capacity while reducing unit costs.
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The airline estimates non-fuel unit costs to be 1% higher in Q3 on a y-o-y basis.
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This results in low production levels of individual dye lots and associated higher unit costs.
Cost per average seat mile (CASM), a key measure of unit costs, rose 10.5% to 12.26 cents.
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SITA's network at incremental cost, its unit costs are far lower than its actual volumes would imply.
Though much smaller, its quality and unit costs will be the same as at Renault's best plants in France.
Each move to a larger wafer size (required every so often to keep unit costs down) requires more expensive equipment.
More sales equal larger economies of scale, which lowers per-unit costs of production for businesses and cuts prices for consumers.
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Respondents reported that average unit costs increased substantially and said they expected them to increase again significantly over the next quarter.
What is more, the unit costs of producing a new bomber are sure to be higher than those associated with the B-2.
Unit volume shipments of these products, particularly for video work, are expected in 2012 and that will drive the unit costs down.
The funding, which will finance up to 75 percent of new-unit costs, will help take the chain to 50 units by year-end.
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The prof's New Economy spin was that frictional diminishing returns did not apply to software or Internet firms because of their tiny marginal unit costs.
All the components to make the chip, including modem, antenna, microprocessor and memory, can be fabricated as a single unit helping to keep unit costs low.
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.
The packaging and testing phase account for close to 60 percent of the cost of an LED today so unified semiconductors would further help drive down unit costs, while increasing throughput.
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Although responsiveness does pay in some cases, it often makes sense for firms to use their rapid production abilities to operate at higher volumes instead, lowering unit costs while making customers wait.
Final deliveries of the F-22 were completed in the second quarter of 2012, and thereafter the production was halted citing high unit costs for F-22 and delays in Russian and Chinese fifth-generation fighter jets.
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As Congress gets a view of the actual costs, it responds by slowing procurement or reducing the final numbers, which drives up unit costs and usually leads to far smaller numbers in the final acquisition.
Tracking data from the 50 largest listed oil and gas producing companies globally (ex FSU) indicates that cash, production and unit costs in 2011 grew at a rate significantly faster than the 10 year average.
That has led to the loss of 15, 000 troy ounces of platinum output, an expected 8.5% increase in unit costs for the year and a risk that the company would miss its full-year production target of 750, 000 ounces, Lonmin said.
For the average industry, the average company, we can make huge progress on solar, we can make huge progress on wind, but the unit costs -- energy costs that you get from those technologies relative to coal are still going to be pretty substantial.
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What really matters for jobs and competitiveness is not consumer price inflation, but the rate of change of unit labor costs. (Unit labor costs are wage rates adjusted for changes in productivity.) A recent study from the Boston Consulting Group suggests that Chinese unit labor costs will grow at about 8.5 percent per year over the next five years.
And today's government report on productivity and costs showed that unit labor costs grew 4.2% from the first quarter, above the consensus of 3.8% and much faster than the growth rate of productivity, which increased 1.1%, way below the 4.3% pace of last quarter.
Unit labor costs in Brazil from January 2010 to December 2012 rose by 44%, Volpon estimates.
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Were unit wage costs to rise too far, they could recover competitiveness more quickly.
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Since then it is largely because China's unit labour costs have grown much faster than America's.
That is, that unit labour costs were too high and that they needed to come down.
Furthermore, unit labor costs increased 2.2% in the second quarter, possibly putting additional pressure on margins.
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