It was the manufacturing arm of Acer Inc., which was spun off in 2000.

Its manufacturing arm, Arthrex Manufacturing Inc. was incorporated in 2002.

(A supply chain problem at a manufacturing arm in China, however, can easily ruin financial results in any given quarter.)

It also has staff in China, where it has a manufacturing arm.

During the second world war the city grew massively in size, due to the influx of workers to the local industry manufacturing arms for the war effort.

Western Electric became the manufacturing arm of the Bell System.

Lee Valley also has a manufacturing arm, called Veritas Tools.

Since over half of GE's revenue is derived from financial services, it is arguably a financial company with a manufacturing arm.

We are seeing more integration of traditional service providers, with their manufacturing arms looking to focus on customers in a very different way.

Marchionne said 'no economy could survive' without a strong manufacturing arm, and that Britain's economy was now seriously unbalanced.