Sentence examples for material prices and from inspiring English sources

[C1.] Results at Volkswagen and BMW were hurt by a strong euro, high raw material prices and tough competition.

British consumers suffer because it pushes up inflation, because of unpredictable oil and raw material prices, and the world's poorest people suffer because basic foods become unaffordable".

But it said it would benefit from recent falls in raw material prices and expected a cost cutting programme to bring in £12m of annual savings by 2015.

And we've already seen the chemical companies pull back on exactly this collection of concerns about high raw material prices and slowing growth".

He said risks in 2010 include the continuing financial and debt crisis, the winding down of national stimulus programmes, high raw material prices and protectionism.

Mr. Ryan described "a sharp rise in a variety of key global commodity and basic material prices," and an increase in interest rates of longer-term Treasury securities.

In this study, we utilized stochastic programming to deal with uncertainties in market demand, raw material price, and product price.

In this contribution, we study the effect of data uncertainty (raw material price and utility cost) on the design of a biorefinery process network.

It is the country's first steel-industry merger since 2002, and comes as rising raw-material prices and steely competition from other East Asian producers have exposed alarming over-capacity.The merger, which both companies hope to sign in April 2012, is, to a degree, a family affair.

And manufacturers are now enjoying reduced costs, partly from lower raw-material prices and partly because they have laid off workers.What has not happened is any substantial reduction in capacity, particularly in Europe where factories are capable of churning out 4m more cars than the market can take even in a good year like 2007 (see chart).

But he also points to concerns over "rising raw materials prices and reports of bottlenecks in some supply chains".