"industrial player" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a company or industry that is a major participant in its sector or field. For example, "The electric car market is increasingly becoming dominated by a few industrial players such as Tesla and Nissan."
The key industrial player is De Beers.
"I expect then Halliburton to top Candover's bid and become the winner, unless there's another industrial player".
This approach, say manufacturing's backers, is the key to making Britain a pre-eminent industrial player in other sectors.
The Chinese government has now published its emission reduction goal of carbon dioxide by 2020 and any industrial player is obliged to take effective initiatives to decrease its carbon footprint.
"The consolidation between these two French high-tech groups will pave the way for the creation of a major European industrial player," the finance minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, and the defense minister, Michelle Alliot-Marie, said in a joint statement.
Chinese corporate spies have been charged, for instance, with stealing trade secrets from nuclear industrial player Westinghouse Electric, now owned by a Canadian private equity firm.
He is presently a vice president at CropLife America, a coalition of the major industrial players in the pesticide industry, including Syngenta, Monsanto, Dow Chemical and DuPont.
And, Sönmez says, the relationship between government and industry is just as important for the industrial players as it is for the politicians.
The following quote from the Strategic Research Agenda is illustrative: "This new manufacturing landscape creates opportunities for new kinds of industrial players, in addition to the existing electronics industry value chain, to join the OLAE community building the future technology backbone of European excellence and business creation" (Strategic Research Agenda [20], p. 7).
"The smart money would say that as go the large utilities or large industrial players like Honeywell or Johnson Controls, so will go the industry," he says.
Some established industrial players say valuations are getting too high.
