And, alongside the manufacturing base, the local university has kept up its metals-research capability.
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The manufacturing base in China was initially built on low-cost and lower-skill jobs, such as clothing and footwear.
Currently, the manufacturing base is becoming high-tech and includes automobiles, iPhones, and a range of very complex products.
So is this something that is really striking America as a whole, the erosion of the manufacturing base that started decades ago?
Many of its entrepreneurs are rapidly gaining their wealth by building the manufacturing base and service industries, including those that are Internet-related.
Perhaps the manufacturing base, small and largely foreign-owned in Britain, seems a less obvious candidate for state support than it does in other countries.
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"The Indian manufacturing base could get a lot more efficient over time, " Mr. Singhal said.
We have, therefore, a real interest in preserving the American manufacturing base, especially in defense and defense-related industries.
Sullivan notes that offshoring moves by his company and others have dramatically increased the electronics manufacturing base in Asia and that will influence where measurement tools are sold.
Earlier this week, Obama released a spot about the closing of a Pennsylvania factory, the latest in a series of ads blaming McCain for the loss of "Rust Belt" jobs by pointing to the disappearing manufacturing base in that state, Ohio and Michigan.
And because the industrial base for manufacturing the transformers and capacitors used in delivering electricity is relatively small, it could take months, maybe years, to fully restore service.
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Before we get into the sort of figures - if we do - can I ask a general question, which is given what's happened to the city and given the shrinking of our manufacturing base - really quite dramatically over the last ten years - how are we going to earn our living as a country over the next ten years?
The profits from this rich manufacturing base financed rows of mansions in the Hillside neighborhood.
The Golden State has shed a third of its manufacturing base over the past decade.
It is the last remnant of an American manufacturing base that once powered the most successful exporting nation in history.
The construction of the factory led to speculation that the auto maker might shift its manufacturing base from Haryana because of the labor problems there.
What has Perryville been doing right to make this city stand out from the hundreds of other cities that have seen their manufacturing base shrink over the decades?
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Since an awful lot of industrial chemistry is catalysed this way, and the chemical industry lies, one way or another, at the base of most manufacturing, there is a good argument that this is the most important prize of the lot.
Without a substantial existing manufacturing base, the best American inventors can hope for is to earn decent royalties from foreign licensees of American manufacturing technologies.
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As the number of mineworkers has declined steadily over the past several years, a small manufacturing base has developed based on farm products that support the milling, canning, leather, and jute industries, as well as an apparel-assembly sector.
The constructor will retain total control over its engine manufacturing base in Viry-Chatillon on the outskirts of Paris and also continue to supply engines to Red Bull in 2010.
The nominee would be charged with making sure administration policy helps the nation's struggling manufacturing base.
Florida is not alone in having to shift away from consumption and towards investment and exports, but its lack of a big manufacturing base makes the task more difficult.
And we heard from manufacturers about all the possibilities that we have in terms of turning our economy around and being a manufacturing base again if we have the workers who have the skills that we need.
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The less Americans are living in base communities and involved in manufacturing for the military, the smaller the number who have any sense of what is involved in keeping the nation secure.
The United States will be focusing in the coming years on strengthening its manufacturing base.
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The United States historically was a manufacturing base -- we made things here and we sold them elsewhere.
There should be a more competitive manufacturing base (in the US), we should focus on getting the regulations right.
The situation is eerily reminiscent of Nigeria in the 1980s when the country neglected its agriculture and manufacturing base and splurged on luxury imports.
Russia, the world's ninth-largest economy, is seeking to diversify away from oil and gas and under President Vladimir Putin has made developing its manufacturing base, particularly the Russian car industry, an economic policy priority.
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