Important industries include food processing, especially in Lincoln and other central and southern towns, and oil refining, chemicals manufacturing, and steel production in northern Lincolnshire.
Oil refining, chemicals, and petrochemicals continued to dominate, but electronics, aerospace components, and other high-technology items became increasingly important in the last quarter of the 20th century.
Along with his brother David, Charles Koch co-owns the second-largest privately owned company in the United States, Koch Industries, a conglomerate involved in an array of businesses including oil refining, chemicals, and consumer products.
Exxon Mobil's chairman, Lee Raymond, called it a "very broad and mutually attractive partnership," that included a deal to study the development of refining, chemicals, and fuel marketing businesses in the country's Guangdong Province.
Although some heavy industry remains (refining, chemicals, electrical equipment, and metal pipes), it is now a centre for high-technology products (including solar panels) and consumer goods, such as food products, clothing, and cosmetics.
Its portfolio includes refining, chemicals, plastics and textiles.
Alkylation, in petroleum refining, chemical process in which light, gaseous hydrocarbons are combined to produce high-octane components of gasoline.
The unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland has steel mills, petroleum refining, chemical industries, and one of Britain's leading seaports, while neighbouring Middlesbrough is an engineering centre.
The existence of the port has favoured the establishment of important and diverse industries: petroleum refining, chemical and metallurgical industries, food processing, and electronics manufacturing.
Western Turkmenistan is one of the most industrially developed regions of the republic, emphasizing oil extraction and refining, chemical and mining industries, and fisheries and fish processing (along the Caspian Sea).
The Tonnage Gases segment provides hydrogen, carbon monoxide, nitrogen, oxygen, and synthesis gas principally to the energy production and refining, chemical, and metallurgical industries worldwide.
