Industry
Huddersfield is a manufacturing town, despite the university being the largest employer. Historically the town produced textiles. The number of people who work in textiles has declined, but the surviving companies produce large quantities of woollen products with little labour. The town is home to textile, chemical and engineering companies; including Cummins Turbo Technologies (turbocharger manufacturers), Huddersfield Fine Worsteds (textiles), C & J Antich (textiles), Syngenta AG (agro-chemicals), James Crowther (textiles), Sellers (Textile Machinery), Trojan Plastics Ltd. (bathroom products manufacturer), Pennine Radio Limited (electronics transformers and sheet metalworking) and a large number of niche manufacturers. Huddersfield is home to Andrew Jones Pies a regional award winning pie-maker, where a worker was killed in a gas explosion on 10 April 2009.
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