The Government has pinned its hopes on Britain reviving the manufacturing powerhouse it once used to be.

While the Paris economy is largely dominated by services, it remains an important manufacturing powerhouse of Europe, especially in industrial sectors such as automobiles, aeronautics, and electronics.

Despite its problems, Guangdong is still a manufacturing powerhouse.

In less than a decade, China has emerged as a manufacturing powerhouse and an indispensable source of low-price goods - toys, furniture and electronics, among others.

During the 1980s, Japan was seen to be a manufacturing powerhouse while American industry was struggling to keep pace.

The city was a manufacturing powerhouse until the early 1970s, when the railroad shops closed.

But like so many explanations of why the United States is not the manufacturing powerhouse it once was, the cost-of-capital argument falls short of being the final word.

He is credited with taking a gritty old city, once a manufacturing powerhouse, back from if not the dead then certainly the terminally ill.

Other factors are also leading the Japanese to worry that their days as a manufacturing powerhouse are on the wane.