English-Czech translations for raw material

• surovina
  Bioetanol pochází z polních plodin a je to v podstatě zemědělská surovina. Bioethanol comes from a field crop and is essentially an agricultural raw material.
  Tato surovina je nám k dispozici zde, v Evropské unii, takže bychom to v našich diskusích měli také zohlednit. This raw material is available to us here in the European Union, so we should include this in our discussions.
  Nedávná potravinová krize zejména ukázala, že potraviny nejsou surovina jako každá jiná. In particular, the recent food crisis has shown that food is not just any raw material.

Definition of raw material

• A material in its unprocessed, natural state considered usable for manufacture
• Any input to a factory or other installation which processes it

Examples

• Petroleum is the raw material refined into various fuels and needed for countless chemicals
• The assembly plants raw materials are finished parts from Asian suppliers.

Related words

• raw materials
• secondary raw material
• textile raw material