Sentences with phrase «massive scale economies»

Steel has become highly specialized in more technology interesting and profitable alloys, leaving the lower end, construction steel and non-specialty steel to foreign producers with their massive scale economies.

Not exact matches

Writer Tom Foster, in «Reprogramming Retail,» depicts what is being called a «post-Amazon world,» in which scrappy, inventive retailers use quality, high - touch service and an appeal to customers» hearts to compete with the online giant's massive economies of scale.

Since they are the ones getting into the less - exploited asset classes and strategies, they are also not achieving the economies of scale of a State Street SPDR ETF family or BlackRock's iShares, which can charge less based on massive asset bases, said Michael Rawson, ETF analyst at Morningstar.

It has built a massive battery plant in Nevada it calls a Gigafactory and plans to build several more of these glob - ally in the next few years, thinking that massive manufacturing economies of scale will drive costs down.

The U.S. economy is massive on a global scale, and much of the country's economic capabilities can be traced back to the innovation, knowledge, and productivity that tends to be clustered in urban areas.

Justice Agbim noted that «the fuel subsidy fraud involved corruption and fraud on a very massive scale»; that it involved many oil companies and officials of government's regulatory agencies «looting and stealing of trillions of naira from the Federal Government of Nigeria and threatening the security and economy of Nigeria.»

This comes as automakers from around the world are struggling to make low - emissions vehicles scale up in China, the United States and other markets where programs and regulations are calling for massive gains in fuel economy over the next 10 to 15 years.

Photovoltaics now benefit from economies of scale, as well as from massive government subsidies and investments that solar - thermal technologies do not have, says Mugnier.

This new distribution did not involve economies of scale, massive warehouses, the endless shipping of paper in various stages of production from one part of the country to another.

See this MarketWatch article for more, but in short: risky lending on a massive scale may once again be jeopardizing the economy for all of us.

The lack of numerous competitors in both its defense and aerospace businesses, combined with General Dynamics» massive size, which allows it great economies of scale, results in not only above average margins and returns on capital, but profitability that has consistently increased over time.

Supreme Commander was a «spiritual successor» to Total Annihilation, an attempt to bring its massive scale of combat, large selection of units, an interesting economy / base construction model, and the crowd - pleasing nuclear superweapons back into the minds of gamers, and it being re-released at the time that Supreme Commander is getting its own sequel allows fans to relive history as they step into the future.

Mr McIntyre is exactly right: If we take Big Climate at their word that the entire global economy needs massive re-orientation on a scale never before contemplated, it will require the largest societal consensus â $ «left and right and center, in America, in Canada, in Britain, in Europe... Yet all Big Climate does is retreat ever deeper into its shrinking echo chamber and compile ever longer lists of people who are beyond the pale â $ «Professor Curry, Professor Christy, Professor Bengtsson, Professor Pielke, Professor Soon, Lord Lawson, the Bishop of Chester, the winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics, the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics... It might be quicker for Mann, Trenberth, Gavin Schmidt and the other climate enforcers to make a short list of those to whom they are prepared to grant a say in the future of the planet.

True, some people argue that between dematerialization of our economy and a massive scale up of renewables, it is perfectly possible to pursue green growth for the foreseeable future, but others are arguing it's time to move to a post-growth society.

Electric cars have existed for a very long time, but unlike fossil fuel - powered cars, they stayed at the pre-Model T stage (no mass production, no economies of scale, no massive R&D;).

It seems to me that the wild west show down south over the last decade is what landed the entire world economy in the tank, based upon the quick and easy sale of homes on a massive one - to - one scale culminating in world - wide sales of vastly over-valued U. S. real estate secured mortgages masqueraded as investment vehicles.