scarcity of raw materials

However, few were produced due to the expense and scarcity of raw materials.

Long Island is an ideal place to produce potato chips because there is no scarcity of raw materials.

In 2007, the industry suffered a loss with about 10 tile factories shutting down due to scarcity of raw materials like clay.

Due to the scarcity of raw materials and strict import control since 1948, he was compelled to branch into radio broadcasting instead.

Both events, combined with the overall energy shortage that characterised the 1970s, resulted in actual or relative scarcity of raw materials.

The situation is obviously difficult because of the price of oil, the price of commodities or the scarcity of raw materials, which are pushing up prices.

The economic structure became very mercantilistic, importing raw materials and exporting finished products - a reflection of Japan's relative scarcity of raw materials.

The Pickers and Rattlers and Stalkers had started to appear long before Killeen's fathers time, seemingly in response to the inevitable scarcities of raw materials.

Like many countries in Central America, Costa Rica's small internal market and scarcity of raw materials make industrialization a slow and difficult process without much room for expansion.

Here he finds a despondent lot of colonists whose dream of building a brave new world has been frustrated by the planet's seismic instability and scarcity of raw materials.

Because of scarcity of raw materials, from folk to buy fewer and fewer old furniture, selling a little piece, so the old furniture is not only up or down.

Competitive pressures make it hard for manufacturers to cut back on the features unless forced by a true scarcity of raw materials (e.g., an oil shortage that drives costs up radically).

Due to the scarcity of raw materials in World War Two, bottle glass production was stopped altogether on 22 April 1944 and only war-important optical glass was produced.

In part this was due to the priority that military consumption and production necessarily had over civilian, however, there was also a considerable scarcity of raw materials and other components required for manufacturing.

It takes account of the scarcity of raw materials, the threat to biodiversity, the move towards sustainable energy and, in particular - and I find this key - the importance of sustainability for our economy.

We really need to know how to make better use of the resources available, particularly in view of the known scarcity of raw materials, and to value the wealth or added value that waste represents for our economy.

Transport difficulties, scarcity of raw materials, increased energy supply costs, difficulties in accessing the Internet, and telecommunications networks, difficult terrain, particularly in the mountains and the furthermost northern areas, depopulation, or illegal immigration - those are the major problems addressed by the report.

Several factors provide major obstacles to the growth of industry: the islands' geographically isolated position, their distance from each other, a scarcity of raw materials and skilled labor, and the high cost of electricity (energy is produced by hydropower, imported petroleum, and wood products) and transportation.

Innovation is the only way out of the financial and economic crisis, as innovation will provide the solution to the problems that affect us all - such as the ageing of the population, climate change and the scarcity of raw materials - and will also put an immediate end to the financial and economic crisis.