Blasting powders for industries, mines, and quarries were becoming more important, and in 1857 the company produced a "soda powder" that was the first strictly industrial explosive.
Otherwise the industry's explosive rise may end badly.
In 2006 a total of £330m was lent to individuals – but over the next few years the industry enjoyed explosive growth.
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It was his recognition of the video game industry's explosive growth while he was a president at Disney that moved him, he said, to approach Comcast two years ago and propose an all-video-game network.
Over the last two decades, she has built three of the nation's largest state lotteries from scratch — Florida, Georgia and Tennessee — turning them into multibillion-dollar enterprises that have helped fuel the industry's explosive growth.
SAN FRANCISCO — Even before Electronic Arts roiled the video game world on Sunday with its $2 billion hostile takeover bid for Take-Two Interactive, even before Phil Harrison, president of Sony's worldwide game studios, announced his resignation on Monday, one could plainly see the creative and financial disruptions underlying the industry's explosive growth.
Despite the industry's explosive growth, Internet advertising is stuck in a creative rut.
Polysilicon manufacturers like MEMC can't produce enough ingots to fuel the solar industry's explosive growth.
But don't let that burp scare you: Ciena has ample growth ahead of it, thanks to the telecom industry's explosive upgrade of infrastructure.
According to the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry, craftspeople from around the world are being drawn to the industry's explosive growth, with worldwide sales more than doubling from 2000 to 2014.
