Raw material
MATERIAL WHICH HAS NOT BEEN THROUGH A MANUFACTURING PROCESS
Raw Materials; Raw Material; Raw materials; Primary commodities; Feedstock; Basic materials; Virgin Materials; Crude material; Primary commodity; Secondary raw material
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 that are feedstock for future finished products. As feedstock, the term connotes these materials are bottleneck assets and are required to produce other products.