heavy industry
noun
: the production of goods (such as coal or steel) that are used to make other goods
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The plant is among the last still operating in Ukraine’s Donbas region, once the country’s center of heavy industry and now a focal point of Russian ground offensives that are ravaging towns and cities along the front line.
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Maria Varenikova Nicole Tung, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2024
His goal is to showcase his record and translate that into votes in places like Northampton County and the wider Lehigh Valley that was long famous for its heavy industry.
—Akayla Gardner, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
The Fortescue project calls for renovating a large 410,000-square-foot industrial building, situated at 530 and 601 Piquette St. in the city's Milwaukee Junction area, to create modern office and factory space for assembling components of EV batteries for autos and heavy industry.
—Detroit Free Press, 23 Jan. 2024
Just the night before, this luxury expedition ship had transported me from the bustle of Osaka's crowds and heavy industry to the mysterious and beautiful Seto Inland Sea, the body of water that separates Japan's main islands: Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu.
—Kate Crockett, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Dec. 2023
But rapid electrification can pose huge challenges to heavy industry, reliant on fossil fuels to provide high-temperature heat; and to grid operators, beginning to buckle under the weight of transmission bottlenecks and variable renewables.
—Wood MacKenzie, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
Biden on Thursday visited the Wisconsin border city of Superior in the northwestern corner of the state, across Lake Superior's St. Louis Bay from Duluth, Minn. — two blue communities, known as the Twin Ports, that used to rely on heavy industry and mining.
—Lawrence Andrea, Journal Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2024
Particularly hard hit are its mighty chemical and heavy industry sectors, which are now in rapid decline.
—Jim Vinoski, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
However, by the 1970s, California’s heavy industry was shrinking as one-by-one the plants that had employed hundreds of thousands of workers shut down, with the last remaining major manufacturing industry, aerospace, drying up as the Cold War ended in the 1990s and Pentagon contracts disappeared.
—Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
Maria Varenikova Nicole Tung, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2024
His goal is to showcase his record and translate that into votes in places like Northampton County and the wider Lehigh Valley that was long famous for its heavy industry.
—Akayla Gardner, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
The Fortescue project calls for renovating a large 410,000-square-foot industrial building, situated at 530 and 601 Piquette St. in the city's Milwaukee Junction area, to create modern office and factory space for assembling components of EV batteries for autos and heavy industry.
—Detroit Free Press, 23 Jan. 2024
Just the night before, this luxury expedition ship had transported me from the bustle of Osaka's crowds and heavy industry to the mysterious and beautiful Seto Inland Sea, the body of water that separates Japan's main islands: Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu.
—Kate Crockett, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Dec. 2023
But rapid electrification can pose huge challenges to heavy industry, reliant on fossil fuels to provide high-temperature heat; and to grid operators, beginning to buckle under the weight of transmission bottlenecks and variable renewables.
—Wood MacKenzie, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
Biden on Thursday visited the Wisconsin border city of Superior in the northwestern corner of the state, across Lake Superior's St. Louis Bay from Duluth, Minn. — two blue communities, known as the Twin Ports, that used to rely on heavy industry and mining.
—Lawrence Andrea, Journal Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2024
Particularly hard hit are its mighty chemical and heavy industry sectors, which are now in rapid decline.
—Jim Vinoski, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
However, by the 1970s, California’s heavy industry was shrinking as one-by-one the plants that had employed hundreds of thousands of workers shut down, with the last remaining major manufacturing industry, aerospace, drying up as the Cold War ended in the 1990s and Pentagon contracts disappeared.
—Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
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