Sentences with phrase «from lowering production costs»

Industrial Capitalism shifted capital and production overseas for a «two - fer» — to skim unprecedented profits from lowering production costs and by expanding into newly opened economies in China, India and elsewhere.

Not exact matches

The elimination of tariffs allows companies to dramatically lower their production costs by sourcing inputs from the most efficient factories, wherever they might be.

The low cost of capital, over the same period, did not help business investments either; they increased at an average annual rate of 0.8 percent because the poor sales outlook at home did not require large expansions of production capacities, and exports were increasingly sourced from overseas factory outlets.

Chris Beer, a portfolio manager at RBC, says that about 80 % of their new production over the next 12 to 18 months will come from low cost and long life mines, which will increase free cash flow.

Gold and nickel producer Independence Group has posted a 264 per cent increase in profit for the six months to December, on the back of increased production from its Jaguar and Tropicana operations and at lower costs.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

As Japanese rivals grabbed business away from them, U.S. electronics companies moved production to countries with lower labor costs.

Cenovus» first quarter saw an increase in its oil sands production to 144,000 barrels per day, up 20 % from the same period in 2014, and lowered operating costs across its assets.

Carlson hopes to leverage his low - cost gas into partnerships with downstream end - users without having to be a big investor: «If we're going to recover a large portion of the value generated from our natural gas production, we're going to have to take our value further down the supply chain.»

The unwinding of NAFTA would likely lead automakers to shift production from Mexico to other low - cost countries.

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During the year ended December 31, 2008, we had a gross loss of $ 1.1 million due to the lower pricing for our initial vehicles, the high materials and manufacturing costs associated with our first generation Tesla Roadster and limited economies of scale from low vehicle production volumes.

All content production has been outsourced from the start, and the current owner spends only a few hours per month managing the site and the main owner tasks can all be outsourced at a low cost.

In addition Carbon Tracker, a market friendly group, now informs investors that low oil prices will favor existing production from low carbon and low cost conventional sources.

Important near - term influences on prices will be the significant increases in production costs that have occurred recently, arising from higher fuel prices, increases in a range of other commodity prices and the effect of the lower exchange rate on prices of imported inputs.

Instead of giving incentives to automakers to keep operations and jobs in the U.S., the unwinding of NAFTA would likely lead to automakers shift production from Mexico to other low - cost countries, including China, India and other parts of Asia.

Together with an enhanced exploration budget of $ 125 - million, the objective of Beyond 20/20 is to maximise the net asset value of our existing mines and projects by continuing to grow low - cost gold production from our growing gold reserves,» Goldcorp president and CEO David Garofalo said in a statement.

In a world of falling prices, however, it will be high cost production from shale formations and the oil sands, not the low cost conventional crude from places such as Saudi Arabia and Iran that will be hit the hardest.

But in a major shift away from the previous Saudi - led policy of maintaining production to squeeze high - cost US shale - oil producers, OPEC countries agreed to target a lower level of 32.5 — 33.0 million barrels a day, although there was some skepticism about the absence of details on which members would curb output and by how much, which were delayed until the next meeting in November.

But if doing so raises the costs of production within their nations, they may have to protect their producers from being undercut by goods imported from countries that have lower standards.

The consumer finds a great variety of goods available at cheaper prices, because they can flow unimpeded from other countries, including those where production costs are lower.

Successfully launched at drinktec 2017, the world's leading trade fair for the beverage and liquid food industry, the OptiFeed ® crown feeder and the EvoFilm ™ shrink - wrapping system are two new solutions from Gebo Cermex that boost reliable and flexible production, at improved speeds, while reducing environmental footprint and lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

To survive and thrive, Australian cotton farmers need higher yields and lower production costs, as well as in - built protection from pests like the Helicoverpa larvae.

From being roughly comparable in 2000, New Zealand's dairy production is now about double that of Australia's with a much lower cost structure and much greater consolidation of farms.

Don Mackay from The Feed Lot Association says he's not scared of foreign fish farmers low production costs.

I also think your point about wondering if they would take Vea because they wouldn't pay Poe / Hankins works in his favor, as they can get similar production from a younger player at a way lower cost.

At home, livestock producers face the prospect of competing against imports from low - cost, low - welfare production systems.

These interventions are lowering the cost of doing business, and are shifting the focus of our economy from an emphasis on taxation to an expansion of production.»

Baru, who took over the mantle of leadership of NNPC from Honourable Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, July 4 2016, said already NNPC had lowered operating costs of production from $ 27 / barrels to $ 22 / barrels.

Amongst others, a monetary policy that will stabilise the currency and reduce significantly the cost of borrowing, in addition to a raft of tax cuts, he said, have been put in place to bring relief to businesses, with the aim of lowering the cost of doing business and shifting the focus of our economy from taxation to production.

A publicly owned drug research and production utility, operating at cost for public benefit instead of private profit, would use high revenues from drugs that are taken daily or frequently in order to subsidize research and production of low - revenue drugs like vaccines for Ebola, malaria, and other infectious diseases that are used once.

So we know that some long period of time from now, we'll be on a sustainable, low - embodied energy, crustally abundant advanced materials, advanced distributable, renewable energy; somewhere between here and there, a lot of capital equipment is going to become obsolete, because the marginal cost of production of it is so much more than the new way of doing it that the new way will put it out of business.

Due to the lower costs of production (lower pesticide use) and higher yields resulting from the planting of Bt cotton, farmers have experienced increased incomes.

«This lowers the cost of purifying the molecule for drug production, an important factor from an industrial standpoint,» he said.

The internet and low production costs will free us from work and want, says social theorist Jeremy Rifkin — but what will we do then?

The aim of the expert is to perfect the technique of cultivation, execute it at a large scale, at low cost and with high efficiency, for a fishing cooperative or a company to benefit from its production and sales and thus preserving the species.

Bioprocess engineer Rafael Garcia of ARS and biochemical engineer Zhiyou Wen of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg are designing a study to grow EPA - and DHA - producing microbes using low - cost by - products of other processes, such as glycerol from biodiesel production and rendered animal protein from slaughterhouses.

Both customers and producers benefit from the lower rejection rate, as well as the lower production costs.

However, the cost savings from the system outweigh the lower production.

Future technologies that need R&D: high - efficiency photovoltaics (say, 50 % conversion)(as well as lowering the cost of PV), energy storage systems for intermittent sources like solar and wind (hydrogen storage, other methods), advances in biofuel technology (for example, hydrogen production from algae, cellulosic ethanol, etc..)

The researchers hope the process, which is now being scaled up by Sanofi - Aventis on a nonprofit basis, will improve the efficiency and lower the cost of production of artemisinin, which is currently extracted from the bark of wormwood trees.

In particular it's gratifying to me to see that the game rewards thinking about sources of long - term competitive advantage, be it from brand recognition, low production costs gained from learning - by - doing (a nice touch!)

On the other, Paramount made it clear that this was a «spiritual successor», not a sequel, to Cloverfield, that the film had been repurposed from a kidnap thriller screenplay called The Cellar, and was achieved with a lower production cost than its predecessor.

Most of the VW Group's EU profits come from Audi, which builds most of its mainstream cars in Ingolstadt and Neckarlsum, Germany, but for much bigger profit margins than Wolfsburg's VWs, and from Skoda, which still maintains mostly Czechia - based production, at significantly lower costs.

S&S also proclaimed that publishing operating income was $ 13 million for the first quarter of 2016, which is an increase from $ 12 million in the first quarter of 2015, primarily reflecting lower production and selling costs.

The company's operating income grew from $ 12m to $ 13m, reflecting «lower production and selling costs», CBS added.

Agrium's nitrogen segment also has a majority of production in Canada and benefits from lower operating costs as a result.

He assures his clientele that while his treats are produced in a China - based facility — to keep costs low — they strictly adhere to American safety and quality regulations by testing each batch of treats through Silliker laboratories before it is shipped from the production facility to the United States.

As PS3's production costs have been cut in half recently, prices of the SKU's lowered, and software sales on the rise, Sony's game division has begun making some money and posted profits for the last financial quarter — Sept - Dec» 07, where Sony sold 4.9 million units — meaning the big three are now all profiting from their console businesses.

It must be making a fortune, when you consider the low production costs and simply gigantic roster of fantastic titles to choose from.