The industry as a dominant economic and productive activity is intertwined with the lives and progress of Achaia for almost two centuries.

Before ten years, the Patras Science Park attempting to shed light on unknown moments of the industrial history of Achaia and wanting to capture the «golden centenary» economic development in the region, released «Album Achaian Industry 1840 - 1940», based on research and texts the scholar of industrial history Mr. Nikos Sarafopoulos.