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The Changing Face of Manufacturing: How US Manufacturers are Looking Homeward

GlobalTranz

Remember, realism & optimism breed sustainability!). With the rise in global crude oil production and relative political stability in the major oil producing nations, particularly Iraq and Libya, the price of crude oil has fallen from above $100 a barrel to around $50 a barrel in just a year. Drop in the price of crude oil.

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How the Coronavirus is underscoring the relevance of Global Supply Chain throughput: From the Frontlines of Yokohama, Milan, and Southern Florida

ThroughPut

In fact, I spent an extra year in college at the University of Pennsylvania just to get the exposure of real biotechnology research, after I wrapped up my Chemical Biomolecular Engineering degree with a minor in Pharmaceutics & Biotechnology, exactly for infections like the coronavirus.

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Behind the Numbers of the SCRC Supply Management Index

NC State SCRC

chemicals, resins, IT providers). Air Products & Chemicals Inc. This was felt most drastically in the last few years, when such events as 9/11, the war in Iraq, the West Coast port workers’ strike, and increased regulatory and customs delays brought supply chain operations to a standstill. Colgate-Palmolive Co. Adobe Inc.