raw material

Also known as feedstock, ingredient

material which has not been through a manufacturing process

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Raw materials are basic materials that haven't been processed or manufactured yet—like crude oil, timber, or iron ore pulled straight from nature. They matter because they're the essential starting point for making finished products like plastic goods, furniture, or steel tools.

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Sulfur at harbor in North Vancouver, British Columbia, ready to be loaded onto a ship Latex being collected from a tapped rubber tree A raw material, also known as a feedstock, unprocessed material, or primary commodity, is a basic material that is used to produce goods, finished goods, energy, or intermediate materials/Intermediate goods that are feedstock for future finished products. As feedstock, the term connotes these materials are bottleneck assets and are required to produce other products.

The term raw material denotes materials in unprocessed or minimally processed states such as raw latex, crude oil, cotton, coal, raw biomass, iron ore, plastic, air, logs, and water. The term secondary raw material denotes waste material which has been recycled and injected back into use as productive material.