Canon is hardly naive about the benefits of outsourcing: 42% of its worldwide production is overseas.
In fact, OPEC recently announced that worldwide production of sweet crude may have peaked and is now on the decline.
Worldwide steel production got schmeissed and utilities lived off their inventories of steam coal when generating capacity turned into a surplus.
The firm noted that Thailand accounted for 40%-45% of worldwide drive production in the 2011 first half, and that as of early November nearly half of that capacity was directly impacted by flooding.
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Several years ago, CBS ordered up Ed, a quirky drama created by David Letterman's Worldwide Pants production company, but ended up passing on it and handing the show over to General Electric 's NBC, where it ran for four seasons.
Africa and the Caspian Sea region, it figures, can supply it with about 1.6 million barrels a day of oil in a few years, compared with worldwide liquids production (crude and natural gas condensates) of 2.5 million barrels a day last year.
Several years ago, CBS ordered up Ed, a quirky drama created by David Letterman's Worldwide Pants production company, but ended up passing on it and handing the show over to General Electric 's (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC, where it ran for four seasons.
This identified nine key enabling components and named 36 makers who between them accounted for virtually all production worldwide.
In 2001, for instance, the eleven members of OPEC accounted for only just over a third of total oil production worldwide.
Fishery production worldwide leveled off in the 1970s and has stayed flat.
This coal dynamic emerges even with steel production worldwide still depressed.
The only Scottish winner in the innovation category was Aberdeenshire-based Zenith Oilfield Technology for developing well surveillance equipment which has contributed significantly to increasing oil production worldwide.
The biggest challenge facing the new chairman is finding a global niche for Hyundai amidst a worldwide glut of production capability, which is a major motivator for high-profile mergers in the industry.
This technology is used in approximately 94% of the 1 million oil wells in production worldwide, and the market for it is expected to expand further due to an increasing number of maturing oil fields.
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Yet many in the biotechnology industry are likely still wondering how to best take full advantage of this singular event, in order to persuade more people (including public officials) that its technology will beneficially transform food production worldwide, as well as ensure a stronger role for objective scientific thought in the ongoing discussion.
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As infrastructure, tax structures, and mineral rights evolve worldwide, Yeager says, the growth of unconventional production will grow worldwide.
Unfortunately, the prospects for verifying and enforcing compliance with an infinitely more ambitious worldwide ban on the production and possession of chemical weapons are worse still.
Commodities like oil, copper and iron ore just relapsed and both metallurgical and steam coal spot prices stick in the dumps despite serious cutbacks in production, worldwide.
From rugged portable drives to ultra-fast rack-mount arrays, G-Technology's USB, FireWire, eSATA, SAS and Fibre Channel storage solutions support virtually all levels of AV production and can be found in post-production facilities worldwide.
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By then Solow had quit Paramount to become MGM's vice-president of worldwide TV and motion picture production.
He holds four worldwide patents relating to the production of fuels and chemicals from biomaterials at high temperatures.
While helium users are dealing with the effects of limited supply, Congress is working on critical legislation that will continue to ensure a needed source of helium until the private sector has enough helium production to meet worldwide capacity.
We used numbers from Box Office Mojo for worldwide box office returns and estimated production budgets.
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"The FS700 is already accepted worldwide as a high-performance production tool for everything from documentaries to commercials to features, " said Peter Crithary, marketing manager for large sensor technology, Sony Electronics.
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Similar things happened in the copper market as earthquakes in Chile choked production and inflated copper prices worldwide.
Foreign box office, DVD-sales and merchandising can do wonders for a film that grosses poorly in the U.S. Among the films on our list, only The 13th Warrior, an epic 1999 flop starring Antonio Banderas, didn't report a worldwide gross that was higher than its production costs.
The shift from GNP to GDP a few years back put the emphasis on production by labor and property located in the United States rather than production by U.S. entities worldwide.
Meanwhile, Nissan said its worldwide sales sank 19.8% and global production nosedived a record 33.7% on depressed sales in the U.S. Honda Motor reported global production in November tumbled 9.9%, the biggest fall in five years, to 326, 176 vehicles.
This "perfect storm" between facility issues and lower natural gas production overseas has caused a shortage in helium worldwide.
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