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manufacturing

Any industry that makes products from raw materials by the use of manual labour or machines and that is usually carried out systematically with a division of labour. In a more limited sense, manufacturing is the fabrication or assembly of components into finished products on a fairly large scale. Among the most important manufacturing industries are those that produce aircraft, automobiles, chemicals, clothing, computers, consumer electronics, electrical equipment, furniture, heavy machinery, refined petroleum products, ships, steel, and tools. See also factory; mass production.



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Located within the Allendale Industrial Park, One Pearl Court offers Dataprobe a state-of-the-art light manufacturing facility for their data storage and networking systems.
Already blessed with an abundance of light manufacturing, the city has one of the region's most diversified economies generating many spinoffs in the transportation and service sectors.
They will be state-of-the art facilities with ceilings between 18 feet to 22 feet high and suitable for warehouses, distribution centers or light manufacturing.
 
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