Definition of Raw Material

The Matter It is a substance that makes up physical bodies, it is made up of elementary particles.

Substances from nature that are used to manufacture various products after an intervention on them

Meanwhile, the raw material it is each of the materials that the industry will use for the conversion of manufactured products. Generally, the raw materials are drawn from nature itself, then subjecting them to a transformation process that will lead to the elaboration of consumer products.

Raw materials are substances that nature brings us closer and that can be intervened by human beings to produce other products as well We said, meanwhile, at this point the creativity of each person is key, since the same added to the raw material will allow creating these new products.

Among the most common examples of raw materials we can mention the wood with which furniture is made design, leather, with which you can make garments and accessories, including jackets, shoes, wallets.

Types of raw materials

Wood has a plant origin and leather comes from animals. But these are not the only sources of raw materials, the universe mineral brings us as many as gold, silver, copper, with which it is possible to make beautiful and valuable jewelry that we will later wear on necks, wrists and ears, necklaces, bracelets and earrings, respectively.
And oil and gas can be obtained from the fossil remains, two elements so important for the operation of means of transport and industries.

On the other hand, raw materials that have been manufactured but that still do not constitute a definitive consumer good are called semi-finished products, products in process or semi-finished products, that is, these are the intermediate step between raw material and consumer goodFor example, the wood of a tree is the raw material, then, when it is transformed into slats or planks, it is transformed into a semi-finished product and finally, when the slats are transformed into a table or any other piece of furniture, it will become a consumer good so that it can be acquired in a trade or company by the final consumer.

We can find raw materials of various kinds as we already indicated and we add others: vegetable (linen, cotton), animal (fur, wool, leather), mineral (copper, marble, bauxite, gold, iron) and fossil (oil, natural gas). The water, hydrogen and air They are also raw materials that allow us to produce agricultural material, fertilizers and nitrogen, respectively.

And the sand, clay, cement, lime, wood, water and silica sand turn out to be the raw materials of the building by excellence.

Indiscriminate exploitation and negative impact on the environment

When addressing this issue we cannot ignore that in many parts of the world the indiscriminate exploitation of raw materials with an excessive commercial desire as the main objective, and without adequate preservation and containment of environment, has generated great damage to it.
Contamination, depletion of soils and resources, to cite the most serious consequences in this sense that occurred and that have been observed and denounced by the organizations environmentalists who look after nature and its resources.

Deforestation carried out in some places without an adequate preservation plan is one of the greatest scourges that the planet has been living and is living today.

All these unconscious actions that are carried out to produce and produce more and thus increase the corporate profits has had a fundamental victim that has yet to recover: our planet.
The climate change that we are appreciating throughout the world is proof of what we mentioned.
And if there is no global awareness about it and concrete plans to counteract it, it will be very difficult to heal it because a large part of those resources cannot be recovered suddenly.

In addition, Raw Material, is the name by which a person is popularly known group of music Spanish which is made up of three brothers, Mónica, Juan and Pedro Fernández de Valderrama Díaz.