Although the blockade's real purpose was to promote the growth of French manufacturing, especially the silk industry, by protecting it against imports, the war economy and blockade also stimulated Italian production, prompted the emergence of machine-building and metallurgy sectors, and spurred the completion of important public works.
Aarhus became Denmark's second major centre of research and education, although the electronics and metallurgy sectors also continued to expand.
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Decline was greatest in the food-processing sector, metallurgy, building materials, machinery and vehicles, electronics and related equipment, and textiles.
Administrations rose and fell based on their plans for the manufacturing, mining, metallurgy, and energy sectors and workers' responses to them.
This was followed by such sectors as metallurgy, machinery, textiles, chemicals, building materials, forest products, and light industries.
Finally, the paper stresses the benefit of prospects of multilateral collaboration to join skills and share efforts of R&D to achieve in the nuclear field breakthroughs on materials that have already been achieved over the past decades in other industry sectors (aeronautics, metallurgy, chemistry, etc.).
Silicon is a key material in many industrial sectors as metallurgy, electronics, and photonics.
Other large employers of note include Krifa (a trades union organisation) and 5R, a telemarketing company, while metallurgy and electronics remain important sectors.
