0 a situation in which companies in an industry can make and supply more products than customers buy or are expected to buy:
Presumably the machinery for release-ribbons, molecular motors, tethering proteins, etc-is energetically expensive to maintain and bulky, and so an overcapacity for release would be wasteful.
A second argument for limited overcapacity may be equitable access to high-tech expensive medical technology.
It does not seem correct to describe as stagnation a condition of booming industry, full employment and hardly any overcapacity at all.
The redundancies derive from overcapacity and price competition affecting disc-drive manufacturers on a worldwide basis.
The industry has for some years been beset by global overcapacity and weak prices.
This overcapacity could also lead to more intense competition.
Now because of serious world overcapacity, this country's merchant shipbuilders are facing their most severe crisis, possibly in this century.
They make a massive contribution to our perceived overcapacity and yet make no contribution whatever to the solution of decommissioning.
