The town grew as a market centre in the medieval period and became important in the 18th and 19th centuries as a centre of cotton textile manufacture, with special emphasis on heavy textiles for industrial uses.
PBDEs have been measured in air, at higher concentrations in rooms with electronics equipment, and in dust where equipment as well as furniture and heavy textiles are present.
In a country so reliant upon its agriculture, the inundation which submerged swaths of cropland and killed large populations of livestock promised to have a lasting effect on the production of food and of raw materials such as cotton, which sustains the country's export-heavy textile industry.
At first the tablets made life easier for Santhisuk: they helped him endure the long hours lugging heavy fabric bales in a Bangkok textiles factory.
Mr. Birla built on the company started by his father to establish one of India's biggest business conglomerates, with interests in industries like sugar, fertilizers, chemicals, heavy engineering, textile, shipping and media, among many others.
The main imports are liquid fuels, fertilizers, wheat, heavy equipment, textiles, and beverages.
Pacific Asian states have effectively found a new market to export their cars, heavy machinery, textiles, and electronics.
Industries include heavy engineering works, textile and machine-making plants, and flour mills and breweries.
Chemnitz is a transportation hub and industrial centre, with light and heavy engineering, a textile industry, and factories for automobiles and electronics.
The concentration of heavy metals in textile sludge and soil are shown in Table 3.
