With tight profit margins, companies find it difficult to fund remediation.
"Most of our import partners have very tight profit margins," Mr. Shen said.
"There are scores of companies on low valuations, many with expensive overheads and tight profit margins," he said.
With petroleum refinery capacity tight, profit margins soared for independent refiners, and the Howard Weil Bloomberg index of those stocks gained 37percentt.
Supply networks where operational control extends well over organizational boundaries have emerged in industries producing relatively complex and customized products with tight profit margins.
The extreme operating conditions employed in the high-pressure free-radical polymerization of ethylene, and the tight profit margins of the LDPE market provide a strong economic incentive to seek the optimal operation of a high-pressure LDPE reactor.
Life and pensions, although also suffering from tight profit margins, are thought to be an area of potential rapid growth because of the introduction of stakeholder pensions.
The tight profit margins under which the Chemical Process Industry (CPI) operates are forcing companies to pay more and more attention to the design and operation of their Supply Chains (SC).
Custodians handle huge sums the new bank will keep $16.6 trillion-worth of assets but only get to hold on to a tiny sliver and, says David Hendler at CreditSights, a research firm, must live with very tight profit margins.
"Now companies, with the tight profit margins that they're facing, they don't make as many packaging mistakes or other errors that would result in food coming into food banks".
But tight profit margins and falling demand (or is it rising demand in a captive market?) can make for some pretty piratical behaviour as well as unavoidable belt tightening by wholesome voluntary groups.
