Sentences with phrase «lower their production costs by»

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

Opel's volume can help PSA lower production costs by spreading technology, platforms and components to Opel vehicles.

Recognized in previous companies helping them lower their production costs by smart marketing and designs.

Not exact matches

In September, Ford confirmed that all of the company's small - car production will leave U.S. plants and head to lower - cost Mexico by 2019, but no plants would be closed as a result.

Demand by the consumer electronics industry for low cost lithium - ion batteries has made mass production in Asia more economical.

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.

Western Australia's only onshore oil producer has suspended production after being hit by the low oil price and the high cost of trucking its output to Wyndham rather than the much closer port at Broome.

Shares in local gold miner Millennium Minerals closed 13.7 per cent higher today on news it had increased its projected gold production by 11 per cent while lowering costs.

Mid-tier nickel miners Western Areas and Mincor Resources have released positive quarterly results on the back of lower costs and improved production, with Mincor also defying the industry trend by saying it would increase its exploration spending.

BP's project pipeline is looking thin, it says, while Total needs to speed up its plans to acquire low - cost, long - life assets and shift towards natural gas production by 2035.

Wylie's gambit seeks to resolve two issues: the assumption by publishers that existing contracts written before the advent of e-books automatically confer digital publishing rights, and the assumption that authors» royalty rates should remain at historic levels despite lower e-book production costs for publishers.

Cage - free systems give hens more room to move around but also result in higher feed costs, lower egg production per bird, increased cannibalism among the flock and greater vulnerability to diseases, according to a report by agricultural consultant Promar International.

«The curtailments will contribute to the Company's long - term goal of lowering Alcoa's position on the world aluminum production cost curve by 10 percentage points,» the company said in a statement.

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.

Besides the extremely low production cost, the lab on a chip is also promising because it can be created by technicians in remote areas who don't necessarily have access to expensive lab machinery.

Consumer staples industries can be significantly affected by competitive pricing particularly with respect to the growth of low - cost emerging market production, government regulation, the performance of overall economy, interest rates, and consumer confidence.

The bottom - line improvement was fueled primarily by reduced production costs -LRB--13 %) and, to a lesser extent, lower SG&A -LRB--2 %) and R&D -LRB--1 %) outlays, which helped mitigate a 2 % year - over-year dip in sales.

The year - over-year improvement was driven primarily by reduced taxes, lower restructuring charges, and a modest top - line advance (+1 %), partially offset by increased production (+4 %), SG&A (+3 %), and research & development (+2 %) costs.

None of this is to suggest that China's old economy, characterized by raw materials production and low - cost manufacturing, is disappearing any time very soon.

In its third - quarter shareholder letter, Tesla management said it expected higher per - unit vehicle production costs, driven by low - volume early production Model 3 units, to continue to negatively impact the company's automotive gross profit margin.

Tesla's much awaited low - cost all - electric sedan, Model 3, will go into production by 2017 and start at $ 35,000 (before taxes), according to a tweet by CEO Elon Musk.

The scoping study report for the project completed by Australian company, Resource Development Group, considers Mofe Creek an early start - up, low capital cost project with a production rate of up to 2.5 - million tons a year.

CEO Steve Williams said the loss of production and ongoing effects of deeper discounts paid for western Canadian heavy crude were offset by higher prices for its offshore production, higher realized profit margins in its refining and marketing arms and lower feedstock costs.

Gold production and costs for the quarter were in line with expectations, with higher production and lower costs expected in the second half of 2018 driven by the timing of capital expenditures, higher throughput, and improved grades.

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.

This has forced up costs so that the lower breakeven points brought about by production efficiencies may not obtain.

The company began commercial - scale production of copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin - film solar PV modules in late 2012, at a time when most thin film companies were being wiped out by low - cost crystalline silicon.

Variable Cost — Usually directly proportional to the (high or low) volume of units being produced by a company or small business; generally, they rise as production increase, and fall as production decreases.

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.

And on Friday, Shell stunned investors by saying profit for the fourth quarter would be sharply lower than in previous periods, partly because of higher costs and lower production.

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.

Similarly, by combining the production of white mould cheese at Troldhede Dairy, our costs will be lowered, which will benefit our farmer owners.»

«We are inspired by the breadth of advances, including interactive user experiences, clean labeling, advances in safety and sustainability, and expanded manufacturing options and lower production costs, especially with digital printing.»

Premium Ingredients claims that the Premilac XLK - 10007 can lower the production cost of Feta type cheese by minimizing syneresis, replacing milk fat with vegetable fat and enabling increases in cheese yield.

He said SUNY Poly may also have made a mistake constructing a factory for an LED light bulb maker, given the fact that LED light bulb production is increasingly dominated by low - cost Chinese manufacturers who have brought the price of LED bulbs almost down to that of incandescents.

At the same time, it is argued by opponents that organic can never be more than a niche market on account of its high production costs and its low levels of productivity.

It isn't a TV commercial, but a low - cost production that the campaign is trying to spread by e-mail among supporters and potential supporters.

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.

Yale University chemists have helped develop a family of new chemical catalysts that are expected to lower the cost and boost the sustainability of the production of chemical compounds used by a number of industries.

«All of the syngas goes into heat or energy production,» Synfuels chemist Ed Peterson says, and the company cuts down on cost by using such by - products to make energy and employing components built with cheaper steel alloyed with carbon as well as easy to maintain low pressures.

Awarded $ 9,948 in Charger Innovation Fund support for further development and advised by Biology Department Chair Dr. Debra Moriarity, the device's creators aim to lower production costs of testing cultures to allow drugs to be screened for failure earlier, saving on the cost of drug development.

Production of fuel cells, electrolyzers and hydrogen storage tanks with lower cost and higher efficiency will be enabled by the work in Research Area 2 (lead by SINTEF).

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.

Shadow Complex comes to Xbox Live and more than projecting the revival of a genre out of use by industry it surfaces the difficulty of organizing a large - scale production at a low cost.

And Altman's film barely broke even — although at a cost of a little more than $ 1 million it was a low - budget production by 1977 standards.

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!)

During the address, chairman Rupert Stadler said that «co-operation» with Porsche (basically nicking its J1 EV platform) had lowered the potential development costs for such a car by hundreds of millions of Euros and made possible a much shorter production timescale that should see it hit showrooms in 2020.

Hybrid stalwarts Honda and Toyota are making a move to capitalize on their early investment in gas - electric technology by increasing production numbers, lowering costs, and offering hybrids for around $ 20,000.

However, despite being built in Hungary, where production costs are lower, the sedan will cost more than the hatch, entry - level pricing for which was reduced by more than $ 5000 to $ 35,600 — matching Mercedes - Benz's cheapest new A-Class.

Music by Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) are the same price as Music by London Philharmonic Orchestra's even though Trent produces everything himself on a Mac at low cost — contrast that with the production cost to record and pay for all the players!