Among positive aspects are cheap commodities like oil, copper and steel.
The country is responsible for half the growth in purchases of aluminum, copper and steel and more than 85% of the growth in tin and nickel.
As our commodities team has highlighted, the intensity of use for some industrial metals such as copper and steel will decline markedly over the next few years.
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The price of oil, copper, steel, international shipping--even mud--shot up.
But before long, her house and garage were littered with barrels overflowing with fragments of aluminum, copper and stainless steel.
To prove his point, he sterilized copper and stainless steel plates, then coated them with around 10 million cells each of MRSA. The plates were then monitored under a microscope to see what happened to the bacteria.
Steel and copper traders told Barclays analysts that their inventories were not particularly high.
Cheaper steel and copper should help reduce the cost of making wind turbines.
Ford noted that higher costs for steel, copper, investment in future products, and inflation eroded profits, despite the strong performance.
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However, inventories are starting to come down and new housing starts will follow with a six-month lag, Barclays analysts said, providing some upside risk to demand for cement, steel and copper.
And it means that high oil prices and rising costs for commodities like steel, copper and other raw materials are finally resulting in higher prices for things like machinery, bicycles and coffee-makers the stuff that companies and consumers buy.
Muscles and physical stamina were required for jobs in the steel mills and copper mines.
High-efficiency motors, which have more copper coils and thinner laminate steel, cost more to make.
"They typically had a steel casing, copper for conducting power down them and optical fibres for collecting data, " he said.
From January, 5p and 10p coins are set to be minted using steel instead of copper and will be 11% thicker.
Basically, marriage is a market, like steel scrap or copper.
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The US, Britain and the EU now all make pennies and cents out of steel with a copper plating as copper rose in price making brass and bronze worth more than face value.
China is undergoing a sweeping infrastructure build-out that has created an almost insatiable demand for coal, copper and iron ore (for steel production).
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The generator transformer - measuring over 13ft (4m) high, 29ft (9m) long and 13ft (4m) wide - contains more than 30 tonnes of copper and around 120 tonnes of steel.
In cyclical sectors like steel, coal, copper, or even aerospace and oil I can model average earning power over a full cycle or even use a discount table on assets in the ground.
The market presently sniffs more early on profit margin leverage in coal mines, steel rolling mills and copper producers albeit many of these properties could easily violate loan covenants over the next 12 months.
Costs for coal are highly dependent on the cost of gasoline, and the costs for wind are highly dependent on material costs like steel and concrete as wind requires about 10 times the amount of steel, concrete and copper per kWhr than any other energy source.
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In the materials group, Reliance Steel, one of the largest U.S. metals service centers, distributes a line of more than 100, 000 metal products, including carbon, alloy, stainless and specialty steel, aluminum, brass as well as copper products.
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Sky-high metals prices combined with the weak U.S. economy in recent years have led brazen thieves to strip copper wire out of vacant homes, swipe stainless-steel beer kegs from bars and even make off with manhole covers, street lights and parts of fire hydrants.
Aluminum Corp. of China and Jiangxi Copper each finished down 1.2%, and Angang Steel fell 0.5%.
Within a matter of minutes, the MRSA on the copper surface began to die off, whereas the population thrived on the stainless steel.
After all, the Chinese appeared to need every ounce of copper, gold and silver he could sell them, the Japanese were taking the steel, and the Koreans the plastic.
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