Heavy Industry

Heavy Industry – Heavy industry refers to businesses that manufacture and/or distribute “heavy” in weight commodities such as steel, iron, oil, railways, and machinery.  Heavy industry can also mean products that are “heavy” in production processes such as chemicals.  In more recent times, the term has had a much more negative connotation because of how detrimental the industry’s products are to the environment.  A majority of the products in the heavy industry contribute a great deal to the earth’s pollution.  Generally, the heavy industry is very capital and resource intensive and fledging companies can find the industry to be very hard to break into and be successful.