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 city's industries are chiefly concerned with processing those products and include meatpacking, lard refining, leather tanning, shipbuilding, and the manufacturing of textiles, metallurgic goods, electrical and communications equipment, plastics, pharmaceuticals, perfume, beer, and chemicals.
"In looking at the configuration, 2,600 of those jobs were in the health industry and 2,500 in social services, both of which offset the losses in manufacturing, transportation, communications and wholesale trade".
Cheap chips drive down the cost of oil prospecting (see story, p. 235), manufacturing and communications.
This lack of knowledge impacts negatively on the design, formulation, and manufacturing of important products in the pharmaceutical, food, communications, energy, and engineering plastics industries.
This after last May when Motorola signed away to Flextronics 15% of all manufacturing in its communications enterprise divisiona five-year, $30 billion deal.
In recent years industries other than oil, including manufacturing and communications, have begun to thrive.
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