The Prato industrial zone now accounts for more than 30% of Italy's textile imports from China.
Each industrial zone with duty-free facilities promoted economic liberty through the phenomenon of convergence.
The police said an electrical fault was the likely cause for the fire in the Ashulia industrial zone.
For years, the 1, 000-acre stretch of undeveloped land, bordering on an industrial zone, was of little interest to anyone.
Jenin's much-hyped joint Palestinian-Israeli industrial zone is still a bare patch of land.
Meanwhile, South Korea says all but seven of its workers have returned from the Kaesong industrial zone in North Korea.
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"More than half of Italian-owned businesses in the industrial zone have gone to the wall over the past decade, " Mr Landi continues.
Thanks to public money, it has an industrial zone with state-of-the-art infrastructure.
When he checked their details, though, he discovered three of them claimed to be from the Swansea Enterprise Park - an industrial zone.
Another factor that makes the garment sector a tinderbox is its location or rather, the lack of an industrial zone for garment manufacture.
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.
"Across from the service station by Pizza Hut, the Industrial Zone of Pavas" read an emailed invitation to a press conference on regional inequality from the United Nations Development Program.
Latma films its programs in a bomb shelter in the industrial zone of Petach Tikvah, but the studio, which does not have many of the technical requirements for television programming, will undergo an upgrade before the pilot is filmed.
As if to emphasise the point, the briefcases given as part of a press kit to journalists at the summit were manufactured in an industrial zone where 13, 000 Jordanian workers piece Israeli components into goods that are sold free of duty in the United States.
This is home to 74 factories that produce mainly textiles and electronic gadgets for export--duty-free and quota-free--to the U.S. These factories make up what is called a qualifying industrial zone (QIZ), an entity designated by the U.S. in 1996 to help increase imports from Jordan.
Major industrial companies and miners were also weighed by news of a 0.8% drop in euro-zone industrial production in April from March to its lowest level since September 2010.
New data indicate that euro-zone industrial orders plummeted in September, falling by 6.4%.
On the dim side in Europe Wednesday, Euro zone industrial production fell 1.4% in October from September.
The 17-country Euro zone industrial production rose by 0.4% from January to February.
Gains in European markets were limited by a weak Euro zone industrial production report Monday that showed a 0.3% decline from October to November.
Capping it all off was a euro zone Industrial New Orders report which showed that this segment had grown by a whopping 3.8% in May.
Euro-zone industrial production for February rose 0.4% on the month, besting expectations of a 0.1% increase, although January's decline was revised to 0.6% from a previous estimate of 0.4%.
And its government is well-off, getting revenue from an industrial free-trade zone sited in the middle of the rainforest.
In Europe, the Stoxx Europe 600 shed 1.1%, despite an unexpected increase in May industrial production in the euro zone.
The Stoxx Europe 600 slipped 0.1%, after news that industrial production in the euro zone fell more than expected in January.
Industrial production in the euro zone rose in March, offering hope that the bloc's economy might have grown in the first quarter.
In economic news, industrial output in the euro zone rose by 0.9% in August from a month earlier, Eurostat said, suggesting the region's economy was recovering gradually.
But in the mezzanine lobby of the site is evidence that more is coming: a model for a 4, 300-acre industrial park and special economic zone (SEZ), the first private one in Pakistan.
European stocks mostly declined, with the Stoxx Europe 600 down 0.4%, after industrial-production data in the euro zone showed output fell in November from the previous year.
In other overnight news, German industrial output fell more than expected, while Euro zone retail sales also declined in September.
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