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Chepstow developed from mediæval times as a port and trading centre.

Its port functions, together with its shipbuilding industry, have now virtually ceased.

The industries which developed on the shipyard sites, particularly the fabrication of major engineering structures by the Mabey Group, continue close to the town centre as well as on the Newhouse Farm industrial estate beside the M48 motorway, where wind turbine towers are now assembled.

Other local industries have included the material for artificial ski slopes, developed at the " Dendix " brush factory, which in its time was a producer of all sizes of industrial brushes.

The works, now operated by Osborn-Unipol, relocated out of the town centre to a new site beside the motorway in 2011.

There are smaller industrial estates in Bulwark, and close to the town's railway station, and the Newhouse Farm industrial estate is also a major distribution centre.

Other notable locally based businesses include Architen Landrell, a manufacturer of tensile architectural structures, and MVM Films, a distributor of Japanese animated films.