Employment in manufacturing, concentrated in central Canada, has been falling since 1990, and factory jobs are likely to be hit further as the rising Canadian dollar hurts exports.
The leading industrial sector is electronics manufacturing, concentrated in the suburban towns outside Edinburgh, and there is a sizeable service sector.
She made a conscious decision to run down manufacturing and concentrate on two areas which were arms manufacture and financial services - I wonder in some ways if having financial services and arms manufacturing at the core of your country kind of corrupts you morally, you know it's kind of like robbing people or killing them.
The deal would also have helped Nortel Networks, the largest manufacturer of optical communications networks, pursue its policy of outsourcing most component manufacturing to concentrate on system design.
The Financial Times, calling on the wisdom that the recent economic successes of the financial sector had apparently made self-evident, told the Japanese to give up manufacturing and concentrate on research and on telling other nations what to manufacture.
About two-thirds of the employment in manufacturing is concentrated in New South Wales and Victoria.
Automobile manufacturing is concentrated in Baden-Württemberg, Lower Saxony, Hessen, North Rhine Westphalia, Bavaria, the Saarland, and Thuringia.
Black employment in manufacturing, once concentrated in the Midwest and Northeast, is now spread across every state as companies have migrated to lower-wage towns and cities.
Manufacturing is concentrated in Nalchik (oil-drilling equipment, timber, furniture, textiles, clothing, shoes, and cement and glass products) and Prokhladny (engineering).
Manufacturing is concentrated in Freetown, and production is mainly of consumer goods, such as cigarettes, sugar, alcoholic beverages, soap, footwear, textiles, mineral fuels, and lubricants.
