Heavy industry

Heavy industry is industry that involves one or more characteristics such as large and heavy products; large and heavy equipment and facilities (such as heavy equipment, large machine tools, and huge buildings); or complex or numerous processes. Because of those factors, heavy industry often involves higher capital intensity than light industry does, and it is also often more heavily cyclical in investment and employment.

Traditional examples from the mid-19th century through the early 20th included steelmaking, artillery production, locomotive erection, machine tool building, and the heavier types of mining. From the late 19th century through the mid-20th, as the chemical industry and electrical industry developed, they involved components of both heavy industry and light industry, which was soon also true for the automotive industry and the aircraft industry. Modern shipbuilding (since steel replaced wood) is considered heavy industry. In the post–World War II era, construction of large systems, such as skyscrapers, large dams, and large rockets, is also often classed as heavy industry.

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Weekly Market Review: Stocks Post Losses Despite Falling Treasury Yields

The Epoch Times 20 Apr 2025
The Dow Jones Industrials and the tech-heavy Nasdaq led the losses on mixed earnings and economic reports ... The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 1.14 percent to close at ......
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Volvo Group to cut up to 800 U.S. jobs amid trade policy uncertainty

Philenews 20 Apr 2025
The broader automotive and trucking industries have been grappling with these pressures, leading to reduced order volumes and strategic realignments. “Orders for heavy-duty trucks remain negatively impacted by market uncertainty surrounding freight rates, demand, ......
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Earth Day Reset: Top 10 Real Environmental Issues, by Steve Penfield

The Unz Review 20 Apr 2025
As a result, America’s coal power, petroleum refineries, steel plants, paper mills, cement kilns and other heavy industries shut down by the hundreds—and puritanical eco-zealots celebrated every bit of it ... Those arbitrary and voluminous rules now make it nearly impossible to build or expand heavy industry in America....
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Jim Ratcliffe’s chemicals business under pressure from Trump tariffs, Moody’s warns

The Observer 20 Apr 2025
Weaker economic growth typically leads to lower demand for the petrochemicals used in heavy industry, which has a knock-on effect on the demand for crude ... And we see opportunities to benefit from industry rationalisation ahead....
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NWI group, Sierra Club react to Indiana environmental, public health action

Chicago Tribune 20 Apr 2025
“There’s some fundamental challenges that we have with our farming practices and industry influence ... “To cherry-pick one industry while you’re allowing the rest of these heavy industries to pollute communities and make America unhealthy is a very dangerous game to play,” Ansari said....
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Palomar Health board backs CEO despite recent difficulties

San Diego Union-Tribune 20 Apr 2025
But opinions differ on just how much the top boss is responsible for the situation that California’s largest public health care district now finds itself in ... 14 ... Cash balances have also dwindled ... “Increases in labor costs and drug costs, with no corresponding increase in fees, put heavy financial pressure throughout the industry ... ....
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Goods transporters end nationwide strike after talks with authorities

Dawn 19 Apr 2025
... faults in heavy vehicles in due course of time.” ... Besides, he said it had forwarded the proposal to dedicate or establish roads for heavy vehicles in the industrial areas of the city and reserve tracks for motorcycles on those thoroughfares to avoid accidents in the future....
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Structural reforms driving steady economic recovery: commerce minister

The News International 19 Apr 2025
He highlighted several pressing concerns, including the depreciation of the rupee, high energy tariffs, the imposition of maximum demand indicator (MDI) charges on non-operational industries, soaring land prices in industrial estates, and heavy duties and taxes on raw materials and intermediate goods....
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Kolhapur disaster management unit signs MoU with IIT-Mandi

The Times of India 19 Apr 2025
It is susceptible to calamities such as heavy rain, floods, landslides, forest fires, road accidents, industrial accidents, accidents at religious places of mass gathering and other man-made disasters ... It is susceptible to calamities such as heavy rain, floods, landslides, forest ......
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MAN Calls for More Inclusive, Supportive Nigerian Automotive Policy

This Day 19 Apr 2025
we have witnessed renewed energy in policy conversations and programmatic interventions aimed at repositioning the industry ... “However, the current structure of the industry, characterised by a heavy reliance on imported components, presents a significant challenge to its long-term sustainability and resilience.”....
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Pakistan’s economic revival gains global acknowledgment: Commerce Minister

Urdu Point 19 Apr 2025
</p><p>He identified several pressing issues facing the industry, including the devaluation of the rupee, high energy tariffs, the imposition of Maximum Demand Indicator (MDI) charges on closed industries, exorbitant land prices in industrial estates and heavy duties and taxes on raw materials and intermediate goods....
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From Alia Bhatt’s dewy glow to Priyanka Chopra’s bold lips: 5 Bollywood-inspired makeup looks to ...

Hindustan Times 19 Apr 2025
From the orangey bronze blush of the 70s, the heavy pink aesthetic of the 80s, to the terracotta, grunge, and earthy tones inspiring the 90s and early 2000s, the beauty industry has created some inspiring and contemporary looks simply by playing with blushes ... Heavy contouring is ......
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Businesses seek PM’s intervention as logistics crisis deepens

Dawn 19 Apr 2025
“This disruption is inflicting heavy financial losses on the business community and creating a cascading effect on industrial productivity and national economic stability.”. “On the import side, the inability to move containers is choking supply chains, delaying production and pushing industries into operational chaos,” he claimed....

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