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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5027bc27-b038-4107-9c96-ee0f6216abff/2F7ABB4B-4A7F-405D-B8B2-9E84E8DE59B8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manufacturing&oldid=227594201" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manufacturing&oldid=227594201" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manufacturing&oldid=227594201"><P><B>Manufacturing</B> (from <A title="Latin language" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_language">Latin</A> <I>manu factura</I>, "making by hand") is the use of tools and labor to make things for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from <A title="Handicraft" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicraft">handicraft</A> to <A title="High tech" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_tech">high tech</A>, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which <A title="Raw material" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_material">raw materials</A> are transformed into <A title="Finished good" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finished_good">finished goods</A> on a large scale.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manufacturing&oldid=227594201"><P>According to some economists, manufacturing is a wealth-producing sector of an economy, whereas a <A title="Service Sector" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Sector">service</A> sector tends to be wealth-consuming. <SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><A title="" href="#cite_note-0">[1]</A></SUP><SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><A title="" href="#cite_note-1">[2]</A></SUP> <A title="Emerging technologies" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerging_technologies">Emerging technologies</A> have provided some new growth in advanced manufacturing employment opportunities in the <A title="Manufacturing Belt" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Belt">Manufacturing Belt</A> in the <A title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United States</A>. Manufacturing provides important material support for national <A title="Infrastructure" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure">infrastructure</A> and for <A title="National defense" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_defense">national defense</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2F7ABB4B-4A7F-405D-B8B2-9E84E8DE59B8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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