This includes the production of materials needed to make the product.
Just 30 years ago most companies were focused on the production of raw materials.
Other production of primary materials includes forest products and fish.
The factory was involved in the production of materials for chemical weapons.
"When it comes to the design, the manufacturing, the production of materials, who better than a book publisher?"
More than 650 industrial companies employ nearly 700 000 people, or 62% of the workforce involved in material production.
However, production of such materials is growing more quickly than silicon for the integrated circuit market.
The production of materials rose 0.6 percent in December.
British policy was to encourage the production of raw materials in colonies.
An accident in the aging complex could halt production of nuclear materials.
