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June 09, 2008

Raw materials

raw materials (noun) - materials before being processed and used in manufacturing

tariffs on raw materials
sourcing raw materials

supply of raw materials
exhaust supply of raw materials
replenish supply of raw materials

import raw materials
resorting to war to obtain markets and raw materials

petroleum and other raw materials
energy, raw materials, labour and transport
recycled raw materials
deprived of fuel and raw materials, industrial centers were paralyzed

shortages of raw materials
stocks of raw materials
raw materials in stock
plans for importing huge stockpiles of raw materials

continued investment in raw materials and capital goods to sustain growth
ensuring that the exact quantity and quality of raw materials

canal-side sites both for bringing in their coal and other raw materials
poor countries depended on selling raw materials
research and development
raw materials with reduced impact on the environment

the movement of products and raw materials between nations
oil, both as raw material and fuel for the petrochemical industry
import control laws control the supply of raw materials to companies from a foreign parent company
turbulent politics caused panic in the market for one of the world's key raw materials
wagons delivering raw materials at one gate, taking away finished goods at the other
necessary to find some local products to supply in exchange for petroleum and other

raw materials which are unloaded at a port, often called a trans-shipment point

low tariff countries with an industrial economy that relied upon the import of most of the necessary raw materials

many of us that unless we obtained a greater command over our raw materials we would be exposed to a fatal squeeze from the oil companies

the rise in the price of labour relative to the price of raw materials


Example sentences:

* Recycled materials are normally much cheaper than raw materials.

* Deprived of fuel and raw materials, the industrial centres were paralysed.

* Large volumes of raw materials and manufactured and semi-finished goods were routed through the port.

* One reason is the rise in the price of labour relative to the price of raw materials.

* Three Britain, Sweden and Switzerland, traditionally were low tariff countries with an industrial economy that relied upon the import of most of the necessary raw materials.

* The strategy was originally conceived as far back as the late 1960's when it appeared to many of us that unless we obtained a greater command over our raw materials we would be exposed to a fatal squeeze from the oil companies, who were increasingly entering our own field of business.

* Many estimate that countertrade accounts for as much as 10 per cent of Brazil's exports of both raw materials and manufactured goods.

* Large-scale industries in pre-railway days needed canal-side sites both for bringing in their coal and other raw materials and for taking away their heavy products.

* If the reason for resorting to war had traditionally been to achieve territorial conquests, to obtain markets and raw materials, or to overthrow leaders of whom one did not approve, then the events of the First World War offered a corrective.

* The poor countries of the South have always depended on selling raw materials, anything from palm oil to iron ore, to the industrialized North.

* In research and development we will continue to seek suitable alternative raw materials that have a reduced impact on the environment throughout their life cycle.

* The most significant difference between the two types is that the latter require large investment of capital to buy plant and equipment, jigs, tools and dies, factories to stock raw materials and so on, while the service trades do not.

* The import control laws control the supply of raw materials to companies from a foreign parent company, or the prices that can be paid for such imports.

* The Lancashire coal provides fuel from which gas is obtained for use in making acids. The port of Liverpool is used to import other raw materials for the heavy chemical industry, and recently oil, both as raw material and fuel for the petrochemical industry.

* Zaire is one of those faraway countries about which we know very little, but last year its turbulent politics caused panic in the market for one of the world's key raw materials.

* Many merchants have seen the advantages of using the raw materials which are unloaded at a port, often called a trans-shipment point.

* The raw materials of problem solving are data, information, expertise (knowledge plus experience) and reasoning.

* While stocks in the form of raw materials last, I am not talking about nuclear weapons but general armaments, the production will clearly continue.

* However, continued investment of raw materials and capital goods was required if the necessary growth and investment was to be sustained.

* Unprecedented shortages of oil, grain and raw materials had been caused by Russia's failure to maintain agreed supplies.

* A factory is sustained by the energy of its own functioning, the throb and whine of machinery, the clash of metal, the unceasing motion of the assembly lines, the ebb and flow of workers changing shifts, the hiss of airbrakes and the growl of diesel engines from wagons delivering raw materials at one gate, taking away finished goods at the other.

* In addition, since trade with the Soviet Union is intended to be bilaterally balanced, it has been necessary to find some Yugoslav products to supply to the Soviet Union in return for its petroleum and other raw materials.

* Consider power, raw materials, labour and transport.

* Precisely because it lacked access to captive overseas markets for cheap raw materials and for the sale of manufactured goods, the German economy had been forced into developing high-quality competitive produce for cut-throat international markets.

lacked access to captive overseas markets for cheap raw materials and for the sale of manufactured goods
an index which measures the changes in the prices of the raw materials and fuel

* The Producer Price Index is published in two main parts: first, an index which measures the changes in the prices of the raw materials and fuel purchased by UK industries; and secondly, an index which measures the changes in the `;factory gate'; prices of manufactured goods (the `;home sales'; index).

* In a capitalist economy goods, and the labour power, raw materials and machinery used to produce them, are given a monetary value.

* Hitler's architectural schemes required war to provide the booty and raw materials to fund them, and slave-labour to construct them.

* We assist in the movement of products and raw materials between nations all over the world. .

* Knowledge, power and economic resources are the raw materials of social action, and they are all unequally available.

* While this is basically concerned with ensuring that the exact quantity and quality of raw materials, parts and sub-assemblies are delivered" just-in-time" for the next stage of production it& is not merely an inventory system.

* At the end of the year he has raw materials in stock which cost $2,000.

* Faced with a slump in orders, or with any problems over the supply of raw materials, he simply could not employ many of those he needed in brisker times.

* Scotch Whisky companies support employment in various sectors of the economy as a result of their sourcing of raw materials, manufactured and service inputs to their production process.

* Mr David Kerfoot said Railfreight International put nothing but problems in the way of his plan to bring raw materials by train from Germany to his vegetable oil factory.

* Such a concern is explained by the fact that these countries had repeatedly demonstrated their willingness to go to enormous lengths (in effect taxing imports of capital, encouraging exports of capital and, even in the case of Japan, organizing plans for importing huge stockpiles of raw materials) in order to prevent an upward movement of their currencies.


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