The enormous former pharmaceutical factory now houses other artisanal food start-ups, too - among them is Kombucha Brooklyn.

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They end up substituting one addictive substance for another, manufactured in volume inside the conservative idea mills like pills in a pharmaceutical factory.

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City Hall says it has a firm intention so far to buy a former pharmaceutical factory in Dagenham, help London's film industry and invest in broadband technology.

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But one of his jobs was night watchman at a sugar factory next to the Shifa pharmaceutical plant.

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Now, alongside its washing-machine factory in Qingdao, there rises a pharmaceutical plant, whose synergies even Haier's bosses seem at a loss to explain.

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Interiors were characterized by the economical and innovative use of standard industrial products like aluminum pipe, factory lighting, and warehouse shelving with chemical and pharmaceutical glass and ceramic accessories. (You wouldn't want what your parents liked anyway.) The machine aesthetic of modernism was remade into an industrial arte povera of "found" components for the look that became known and celebrated as High Tech.

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Skilled workers and political stability have attracted foreign investment, such as an Intel silicon-chip factory (the only plant of its kind in Latin America), and a pharmaceutical plant.

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