After World War II it developed as an industrial city, specializing in equipment for the food industry, automotive parts, furniture, building materials, textiles, and foodstuffs.
The city of 3.5 million sits adjacent to the dynamic U.S.-Mexico border region and has 57 industrial parks specializing in everything from chemicals and cement to telecommunications and industrial machinery.
Gerard Foley had a distinguished career as an industrial physicist specializing in temperature measurement.
It is a rail junction and an industrial centre, specializing in textiles, rubber, furniture, engineering, and the processing of agricultural produce.
Dr. Luttinger spent much of his professional career working in the industrial sector, specializing in polymer chemistry, reverse osmosis, and environmental chemistry.
Sons Jurgen and Rainer took the reins some 40 years later, transforming the business into an industrial powerhouse specializing in drive-automation and power-transmission solutions.
For most of the twentieth century the region supported a thriving agricultural and industrial economy specializing in the manufacture of large-scale farm equipment.
Local public banks are key tools of German industrial policy, specializing in loans to the Mittelstand, the small-to-medium size businesses that are at the core of that country's export engine.
The region is heavily industrial and specializes in the refining of oil and chemicals, machine building, metalworking, and food production.
Trees were selected from around an industrial facility specializing in hard-metal metallurgy, which uses tungsten carbide and cobalt to harden steel (Harris and Humphreys 1983).
