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Increased recycling, product redesign and substitution can improve firm resilience in the face of uncertainties in materials availability. The delays involved in implementing these strategies may result in unprepared firms losing market share to competitors who are better prepared to address these challenges. This paper will expand from previous work in this area by examining the statistical significance...
Materials selection decisions exhibit great influence on the environmental performance of firms through their impact on processing technology, product form, and supply chain configuration. Consequently, materials dictate a product's environmental profile via the burden associated with extraction and refining, transformation from material to product, product performance characteristics during use,...
Platinum group metals, a key material group for electronics manufacturers, exhibit characteristics of a material with high scarcity risk based on Malthusian, Ricardian and structure metrics. This includes high potential future demand growth, high extraction costs and high market concentration of primary supply. The conditions that impact downstream firms are explored through the use of a dynamic material...
Platinum group metals (PGMs) are used in the manufacturing of hard disks and capacitors, components that are crucial to electronics. Between March 2007 and March 2008, platinum prices have gone from about $39/g to over $67/g with more than half the increase occurring in the beginning of 2008. Not only has demand outpaced growth in primary capacity, but also, primary producers in South Africa have...
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