For nearly six months the Public Utilities Commission of Texas and an independent market monitor have been investigating whether the Dallas-based energy giant manipulated the state's wholesale energy market by briefly withholding production in order to drive up prices during the summer of 2005.
ArcelorMittal officials said that during the seasonal slowdown in the demand for steel, it has cut production at certain locations in order to optimize the production flows and to align the production capacities to demand.
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The sector needs continual tax relief in the form of exemptions from industrial production taxes in order to expand.
The company will need to emphasize its production levels in order to grab a larger share of the growing metals market.
And three, you can order production at any scale, so you can start with 100 and then go to thousands or millions.
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The company will need to have to focus on its production levels in order to grab a larger share of the growing metals market.
But the main problem in the past had "been how to get production volumes up in order to get prices down".
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Unfettered by job assignments, participants can set an objective--say, to reduce production errors or streamline order entry--or come up with novel product ideas.
Specifically, there is concern that the priority of the Chinese would be to maximize production and drive down world prices in order to reduce the cost of domestic food production.
To compete in a globally connected world, companies must leverage technology and automation in order to gain production efficiency and repeatable quality.
For more concrete products, manufacturers have moved towards cheaper materials in order to reduce production costs, but the result can be products that fall apart sooner.
Young companies that were entering mass production of their technologies in order to compete effectively with larger rivals went bust, including Solyndra and Abound Solar.
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But in order to finish production, the filmmakers need money.
"It does seem to represent a recognition on the part of authorities of the need to introduce some reforms in these areas in order to increase production, and to produce some incentive mechanisms, " said Kenzo Oshima, UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs.
Mr. Ghanem suggested, however, that if foreign oil companies didn't send back their staff, who were evacuated at the start of the crisis last month, then Libya would be compelled to offer new oil concessions to other companies from Brazil, China and India in order to restore production and exports to their previous levels.
Mr. Srivastava added that the government is also keen on allocating more coal mines to power-generation companies in order to raise the production of coal.
The trend includes linking production and energy resources in an efficient manner, and moving production closer to market demand in order to minimize transportation related costs.
In the autumn it could not cope with a bulging order book and halted production lines for a month to complete a number of aircraft that were missing parts.
But in the meantime, there is evidence that factories are ramping up production of HFC-22 in order to boost emissions of HFC-23, so that they can make windfall profits from cutting back on HFC-23 later and selling the emission-reduction credits, says Michael Wara of Stanford University.
In addition, seven bead producers from Ghana and Mali attended a high-level workshop (Murano, Italy) in order to improve their bead production technology and marketing strategies.
Bartholomeusz says he can ramp up production extraordinarily quickly because he can simply order new machines from the hard disk equipment maker (and AQT partner) Intevac.
However, in order to push forward the production of curved glass, Apple reportedly has purchased 200-300 glass cutting machines to be used by glass makers, said the sources.
In order to reduce inventories, production is also being slashed.
Patrick Mumford, director of the city's Department of Neighborhood and Business Services, said the city hopes to attract developers to build sound stages in order to bring film-production companies as anchor tenants to the property.
Carmakers in Japan are coping by shifting production to other plants where possible, while in North America, manufacturers are cancelling overtime or stopping production of slow-selling vehicles in order to conserve parts for repairs and for those vehicles in higher demand.
The company also announced production suspension at its German steel mill in order to optimize its inventory.
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Firms had cut production to below the level of sales in order to shed excess inventories, so now they need to reopen factories.
With the live information on production, customers can know how rapidly their order is being filled and get a precise estimate of when finished goods will be shipped to them.
Meanwhile, other companies, such as GCL-Poly Energy, which is among the largest maker of silicon and silicon wafers (for making solar cells) in the world, are willing to expand production and lose money for a while in order to gain market share, Mehta said.
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The company said it will put more people in frontline engineering and production, and fewer in support roles, in order to be more competitive.
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