Cotton ginning, weaving, sugar refining, rice milling, and manufacturing are some of other business taking place here.
The chief industries of Suri include rice milling, cotton and silk weaving, and furniture manufacture.
Papermaking is also a large industry, as is food processing (especially rice milling).
In the field of industry it has just to contain with rice milling, leather and cotton only, but due to political reasons government is now bringing new projects.
Brewers rice and second heads are one of the many byproducts that rice milling creates.
Being an agricultural town, the predominant industries are agriculture based like modern rice milling, palm oil refinery, poultry, live stock and coir based.
Small scale and handicraft units are also engaged in shell crafts, bakery products, rice milling, furniture making, etc.
Elliott's venture into rice milling with Water Wheel Holdings led to a corporate collapse in 2000.
However, rice milling still continues to be a major economic activities.
The first industries in Siam were rice milling and sugar production.