Industrial

The industrial segment of the economy has seen troubles lately.

Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.

The sight of a teenager walking the small town's streets would usually go unnoticed, but to Benicia Police Cpl. Kirk Keffer, things didn't look right on the quiet street in the industrial part of town.

Handicraft is less standardized then industrial products, hence less artistic or rather flawless.

More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.

This is an industrial product—it's much too strong for home use.

Come, all ye workers, from every land, / Come, join in the grand industrial band; / Then we our share of this earth shall demand.

Italy is a part-industrial, part-rural nation.