 The ENI built, in the Piana district (the low part of the town), a big plant to degasify and build some piping of the methane gas which would take it to the direction of Catania-Priolo.
The extractive activity continues incessantly, but the important resources found in Bronte's territory produced very little local occupation and, unfortunately, did not create any relative advantage to the brontese community. The only consolation is that, at least, it did not create any further pollution in the territory. Few are the present industrial activities on the territory: a small but blooming industrial pole which counts several companies, a few wine and olive oil companies, industries for the transformation of agricultural and zoo technical products, factories of building materials, sawmills. In remarkable growth and development the tourist industry.
Some little industries, dedicated to the shattering and working of lava stone and to the transformation of wood in charcoal still resist (this product, traditionally made and of fine quality, is also exported abroad). The charcoal makers of once, were men who used to live, for most of the year, among the woods of the Nebrodi and of Etna, cutting timber. Today noting much is changed. The technique is always the same: put to burn big wood piles covered with moistened soil to obtain the coal or the charcoal for domestic use. A small brontese company, with the ways and the technique of always, keeps on developing this ancient activity, obtaining a good quality product, requested by many foreign countries.
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