All told, 15 out of 27 industrial sectors all witnessed a contraction in February.
Revenues from the commercial and industrial sectors have fallen sharply as a result of the economic downturn.
Among the industrial sectors, investors were most enthusiastic about the prospects for information technology, construction, services and pharmaceuticals.
Like other industrial sectors, utilities are emerging from hard times and they are trying to prepare for the future.
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And funds specialised in particular industrial sectors may charge over 2% a year, pleading the volatility of their markets.
EnerNOC provides demand response services, energy efficiency and energy procurement services to end-users in the commercial, institutional and industrial sectors.
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Boston Consulting Group has predicted that around 2015 it will become more economical to manufacture in the U.S. than China in seven industrial sectors.
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Local consumer markets are still evolving and key industries such as the IT and industrial sectors are continuing to move forward despite the current economic climate.
Labor markets will weaken at first, but unemployed resources will over time migrate toward the manufacturing and industrial sectors most damaged by current policies that sustain such high labor costs.
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Richardson also proposes the implementation of a market-based cap and trade system for greenhouse gas emissions in order to create incentives for the electric and industrial sectors to make significant reductions in their carbon emissions.
In December it announced that state-owned enterprises under the central government would remain in control of industrial sectors considered crucial to national security and economic welfare: military equipment, electric power, oil and petrochemicals, telecommunications, coal, aviation and shipping.
They are tantamount to a discriminatory tax narrowly focused on certain industrial sectors--in the case of pharmaceuticals, a sector that at great financial risk develops and makes products critical to public health and to the overall reduction of health care costs.
Industrial and retail sectors have also performed well this year, returning 16.2% and 15.58%, respectively, according to NARIET.
De Beers is a family of companies that dominate the diamond, diamond mining, diamond trading and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors.
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The current stock rally is clearly becoming more selective, as the industrial and materials sectors appear to have topped out.
These core uses (what they refer to as direct water and steam services in the commercial, residential, industrial and power sectors) eat up 12.3 quadrillion BTU per year.
The Tinmith technology has been used to write a number of applications, which he hopes will be applied across a variety of industrial and business sectors in the years to come.
It is part of a drive to force banks to take a tougher view of credit worthiness, and to slow industrial expansion in sectors such as steel and cement which are driving up inflation and threatening growth.
Although a powerful military could not be sustained over the long haul without a prosperous economic base, it has been unusual, until recently in the case of China, to describe a country's power in terms of its economic output or its dominance of key industrial or trade sectors.
In recent months, global economic concerns have slowed aluminum demand in the construction, industrial products and packaging sectors.
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Unison said it would ballot its members in the pre-school, nursery, primary and secondary education sectors on industrial action in response to the cuts.
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Our overweight in industrial, technology and energy sectors, reflects a domestic bias.
Production of crops and livestock is water-intensive, and agriculture alone accounts for 70% of all water withdrawn by the combined agriculture, municipal and industrial (including energy) sectors.
Mr Cable also used his speech to say the government is refocusing its industrial policy on supporting key sectors of the economy, such as aerospace, the car industry and science.
Overall, China views promotion of green sectors as sound industrial policy: it aims to be the world market leader in solar panels, wind turbines, fuel-efficient cars, and other clean energy industries.
Since independence in 1968, Mauritius has developed from a low-income, agriculturally based economy to a middle-income diversified economy with growing industrial, financial, and tourist sectors.
He and Berrard are buying up businesses in the industrial cleaning, waste and chemical sectors, aiming to expand the combined Swisher Hygiene entity into a nationwide force, all with the same red-and-white logo.
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