Raw Materials

A raw material is something which is used or something that is acted upon by human labour or industry. Raw material is used as building material and needed to build or create a structure or product. The term raw material is often used when referring to any material which is found in nature and is usually unprocessed or in a minimally processed state, such as wood/logs, crude oil and iron ore etc. In some industries the term raw materials is used in a distinct sense and known as a subject of labour, something that has previously been worked on, in other words it doesn’t apply to materials in their unprocessed form. Examples are steel and glass.