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March 1988

Productivity in industrial inorganic chemicals

Horst Brand, Ziaul Z. Ahmed

Output per hour improvements were retarded by slack demand; economies of scale could not be fully exploited, but cutbacks of less efficient plants, together with technical advances, bolstered productivity levels. The absence of any long-term improvement in productivity did not characterize all of the industry's components.

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