Idk if it is industrial strong, but there is lanes and probably few more listed at lua-users. Do you have any experience to share on these?

The choice of 5.3 is pretty strange, as Lua is known to split in two at 5.2, because LuaJIT was fixed to 5.1 variant with compat backports and is to my opinion an "industrial" Lua standard. 5.x are actually three different (but not absolutely superior to each other) languages with shared 5-like foundation and app-level code compatibility, so speaking about Lua in general is pointless in a sense.

http://lualanes.github.io/lanes/

http://lua-users.org/wiki/MultiTasking

For an interested Lua programmer, there's a kind-of workable approach --

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...

The industry standard in Lua is to have multiple Lua states doing stuff. A different approach, but it is there