Such margins are closer to the levels building material dealers saw during the housing boom.
Among the top-performing shares in Hong Kong have been China National Building Material Co.
They still bar building material such as concrete, steel and pipes, as well as industrial equipment.
One police official told the BBC that the collapse appeared to have been caused by the use of substandard building material.
One theory is that the toddler could have been accidentally buried beneath building material which had been dumped at the time.
D. in biology at Dartmouth after a senior-year class made him realize that cells could become the building material of the future.
This has led to increased use of coking coal in these countries, which is used for manufacturing steel, a basic building material.
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Sichuan Shuangma Cement Co. jumped 10.1% in Shenzhen, while in Hong Kong, West China Cement climbed 5.1% and China National Building Material Co.
Based in Dallas, Texas, Eagle is a manufacturer and distributor of building material and construction products like cement, gypsum wallboard, recycled paperboard, and concrete and aggregates.
IBISWorld indicates that the surge of new government regulations will galvanize green jobs in the fields of environmental preservation, sustainable building material manufacturing and remediation and environmental cleanup services industries.
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The fact that wood is the most eco-friendly building material is an obvious reason for its use, but as Kantonen explains its aesthetic qualities are being rediscovered and appreciated again.
Not surprisingly, among the least profitable categories were two directly tied to the still-lagging real estate market: stores selling lawn and garden equipment and supplies, and building material and supplies dealers.
The broader index, which includes auto and building material, was softer but still gained from June levels and reached 0.6% on the month, after posting 0.3% month on month gains in June.
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An analysis of financial statements from privately held building material and supplies dealers (NAICS 4441) shows that sales are rebounding a little after three back-to-back years of declines between 2007 and 2009.
The Metal Building Material Business segment provides housing window sashes, building sashes, store facades, sashes for low-to-medium rise buildings, entranceway doors, various types of shutters, curtain walls, gates, carports, banisters, tide barriers, and smoke insulated screens.
Inhalation of asbestos, which was widely used as a building material from the 1950s until 2000, can cause cancer and other serious diseases which the Health and Safety Executive says is responsible for about 4, 000 deaths a year.
Financial analysis of building material dealersDuring its quarterly conference call Monday, Home Depot said building materials and lumber were among product categories that outperformed average company comparable-store sales, according to a transcript of the call by Seeking Alpha.
Still, gross profit declined 2%, principally due to increased building material costs and selling, general and administrative expense rose 14%, primarily due to investments in personnel and other expenses related to plans for growth, including the start-up of its Lexington, Ky.
Building-material costs rose by 30% from 2005 to 2007, says Flag's Mr. Kanavos.
Lafarge's earnings are increasing, and yet the company is cheaper than most building-material peers at 1.3 times revenue and 13 times this year's earnings.
Police also arrested three officers of the municipal agency that clears construction projects in the area, one police official, a building-material supplier, a local politician and a mediator who worked for the builders, Mr. Ballal said.
After experiencing negative adjusted net profit margins in 2009, privately owned building-material and supplies dealers analyzed by Sageworks saw margins return to the black in 2010 and increase to between 2 and 3 percent in 2011.
And the strength, lightness, high melting point and ability to resist corrosion of titanium make it an ideal material for building aircraft parts, supercars and medical implants but it can cost 50 times as much as steel.
And the reduction in outer material gives the building an excellent chance of going up faster and for less money.
Mr Curtin said he had spent his entire childhood building with the toy construction material and was excited to have the "largest set in the world".
Building new movies from old material makes sense.
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The technology works by building up layer upon layer of material - typically plastic - to build complex solid objects.
It is my view that identifying where the building is does not in any material way assist this particular tribunal.
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The fire started in the building's basement where flammable material was stored.
The 36-year-old professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the intellectual ringleader of a cadre of "synthetic biologists" who are building useful devices out of genetic material, much as bits of mortar or silicon are used to erect complex objects.
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