The digital machining and outfitting capabilities at Quonset Point make it one of the most advanced naval construction sites in the world, not to mention the biggest industrial employer in Rhode Island.
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China's low costs are luring Taiwan's manufacturers, hollowing out the island's industrial base.
And Glebe Island, an industrial area in the suburb of Balmain, joined the mainland in the 1860s and now acts as a cargo storage area for freighters.
For example, one company widely mentioned as a potential target of activists is Textron, the Providence, Rhode Island-based industrial conglomerate that builds everything from the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor to smart cluster bombs.
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Mr. Rechler split with his family members who still have significant holdings of industrial and office properties on Long Island and since 2010, he has been one of Manhattan's most-active buyers, typically using money from an RXR-run fund and joining with investors including Canadian pension funds.
Erarta occupies a Soviet-era building on a still-gentrifying stretch of prime post-industrial real estate on the tony Vasilyevsky Island.
For example, plans to develop Batam, an island designated as a special industrial zone, as a container terminal to rival nearby Singapore seem a waste of money.
To be sure, the recent Fukushima meltdown, like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island before it, was a serious industrial accident that will be costly to clean up.
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Despite a tunnel between Hokkaido and northern Honshu, Japan's main island, connections to the country's industrial heartland are poor.
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The economic impact of Electric Boat spills over into neighboring Rhode Island, where General Dynamics has established a major industrial facility at Quonset Point to construct hull cylinders for its submarines.
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Much of the movie is set on a private island controlled by the Vanger clan, a wealthy Swedish industrial family peopled with criminals, perverts, solitaries, exiles, dead Nazis, and a grieving old man, Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer), who has never got over the disappearance of his grandniece, forty years earlier.
Many points of interest in Long Island City and neighboring Astoria are related to the area's industrial heritage.
Those in the creative fields like designers, architects and artists are fixing up loft spaces in old industrial warehouses in Chai Wan, Aberdeen and Ap Lei Lau on the south side of the island where a new metro line is being built.
Situated on the small island of Lilla Essingen, in a redbrick warehouse that once belonged to Electrolux, Lux blends industrial heritage and Scandinavian style.
The team made a new, smaller island out of wood salvaged from school desks, got rid of a number of cabinets and put in industrial-style metal shelving.
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