Insurance, high-technology industries, food processing, oil refining, and convention business are also important.
High-volume data impose limits to storage technologies, processing capabilities and database modelling.
The University of Illinois (founded in 1867) is the community's chief economic asset, but agriculture (mainly corn [maize] and soybeans), food processing, distribution, high-technology industries, and manufacturing (plastics, ceramics, and office supplies) are also important.
There is also interest from high-technology companies, medical concerns and data processing and call centers.
Today the diversified industries of Tameside include food processing, plastics, and high-technology engineering.
Peter Barge, the chief executive Jones Lang LaSalle AsaidPacific, said his company was involved in 25 projects in India, most of it for back-office processing rather than high-technology functions.
For high-technology companies, which make their money transmitting and processing information, the cost of the real estate they occupy is not much more than a decimal point in their financial calculations.
Publishing, milling, food processing, graphic arts, insurance, and high-technology industries are also important.
TO save water, high-technology plants like the one in North Fulton will have to begin more processing of treated sewage water, sending it out to be consumed.
The new Pitney must go up against well-heeled high-technology competitors that want to handle all their customers' document and message processing jobs -- including mail.
