'slash demand' is not a correct phrase in written English.
'Slash' is a verb that means to cut or reduce drastically. You could use it in a sentence like, "The government has promised to slash demand for coal energy by 20% by 2030."
Now the euro-zone crisis has slashed demand; in January the company gave the plant back to the government for a symbolic $1.
Since then, PPG has developed a far more environmentally beneficial window named Solarban, which slashes demand for air-conditioning in warm climates.
Crude oil prices collapsed late last year, falling to under $35 a barrel from highs above $145 as the deepening global downturn slashed demand and pushed oil stockpiles higher.
The global economic slowdown has slashed demand for coal, particularly in fast-growing emerging economies, and Bumi's boardroom infighting has been mirrored by a 60 percent fall in the company's share price over the last three years.
But the blast-furnace fires started to go out last year when recession slashed demand for steel and forced ArcelorMittal, the world's biggest steelmaker by some distance, to start closing its least efficient plants.
Fracked oil and gas across the central plains of the Dakotas, Kansas and Nebraska, coupled with oil from Canadian tar sands, has slashed demand for oil imports to the US – resulting in the world market for oil and gas being flooded.
Ireland has been running a small current-account surplus and deficits have generally fallen (though they remain very high in Cyprus and Greece) but they would be far worse if the peripheral economies were not so depressed, which has slashed demand for imports.XXV.XXV
But new emissions standards kicking in this year have slashed demand for older trucks, even though these are grandfathered in under the stricter rules.
Ever since the dot-com meltdown slashed demand for Sun's servers, this quest has acquired a growing sense of urgency.
You don't promote growth by slashing demand.
