noun
definition
Any bulk raw material constituting the principal input for an industrial process.
example
Bio-materials may be substituted for petrochemical feedstocks as petroleum prices rise.
Examples of feedstock in a Sentence
The total cost to the consumer is estimated at $ 8.4 billion a year because producing the required corn feedstock increases corn prices.
By recycling materials to provide the feedstock for other products the amount of material going to incineration or landfill can be reduced.
With salt and coal, it formed the main feedstock for the chemical industry until about 1914.
Meanwhile, another form of agricultural feedstock for heating, biogas, seems to gain little encouragement from the Report.
The process for making fuel from biomass feedstock used in the 1800's is basically the same one used today.
Still in its infancy is the use of wood as chemical feedstock.
This meant that it exhausted its remaining natural gas reserves for production of liquid fuels and petrochemicals feedstock.
He believes the CSI, along with the silicon feedstock shortage and current high costs, will further accelerate the existing trend toward thin-film.
In this system, the compost feedstock is formed into long windrows, in the open air.
Further more if the matter is not dried then decomposition sets in quickly and renders the feedstock unusable.