Many companies in the sector have started to diversify by concentrating on the booming commercial market or developing new clients in complementary sectors such as automotive manufacturing.

This was an effort to try to save several independent automotive manufacturing companies who were having great difficulty in getting the necessary financial backing.

Explorations with industrial partners are making better, smarter products in industries from telecommunications to automotive manufacturing.

Employment in automotive manufacturing in particular suffered, experiencing a 33% reduction by the end of the recession.

In the 1950s and 1960s, with the decline of the railway as a mode of transportation, other industry began to locate in the city, principally primary and secondary automotive manufacturing.