It is nonetheless to be expected that there may be a supply-demand gap for indium, with a substantial escalation in its price, at least over the immediate term which is likely to impact on the inauguration of the thin-film CIGS cell industry.
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Seagate said in an SEC filing this morning that it expects a huge gap between supply and demand for hard disk drives in the December quarter as a result of the recent severe flooding in Thailand, which has hampered production of both drives and key components.
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It is predicted that in 2012, Chinese domestic consumption of REs will match domestic production, and this year will see a peak in availability and a demand-supply gap emerging on the world markets.
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The malign effects exist because there's a gap between the demand for and the supply of unskilled labor and that gap cannot be filled legally under existing immigration laws.
With the demand from the backlight market nearing saturation and the general lighting market yet to take off, growth in demand has been slow, resulting in a huge demand-supply gap that has put pressure on the average LED selling price.
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For their calculations, the two assumed that where there was a gap between demand and conventional supply it would be filled with synthetic fuels, first with tar-sands oil and later with oil from coal and shale. (According to high-end estimates, coal and oil shale could together yield some ten trillion barrels of unconventional crude.) They then calculated what the impact would be on global carbon-dioxide levels.
Under these circumstances, diversification among such sources is but a stop-gap solution that can, at best, have a temporary effect on oil supply and, hence, on national security.
McKinsey estimated that by 2030, there will be a 40% gap between global water supply and demand.
If the ministers act on this recommendation, they will have plugged a vital gap in protecting the food supply of seabirds and other marine life from the threat of overfishing for sandeels.
This will leave a big gap in the UK's energy supply, and this needs to be filled.
That supply of credit lifted house prices and spurred a boom in residential construction, which filled the gap in demand left by sluggish business investment.
This year the economy is expected to expand by 8.2% but critics say the billions of dollars from oil revenues have failed to close the stark gap between a tiny wealthy elite and the millions of poor living without access to electricity, water supply and sanitation.
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