The secondary sector of industry includes those economic sectors that create a finished, useable product: manufacturing and construction. This sector of industry generally takes the output of the primary sector and manufactures finished goods or products to a point where they are suitable for use by other businesses, for export, or sale to domestic consumers. This sector is often divided into light industry and heavy industry. Many of these industries consume large quantities of energy and require factories and machinery to convert the raw materials into goods and products. They also produce waste materials and waste heat that may pose environmental problems or cause pollution. Divisions of this sector include:

• Aerospace manufacturing
• Automobile manufacturing
• Brewing industry
• Chemical industry
• Clothing industry
• Electronics
• Engineering
• Energy industries including the production of petroleum, gas and Electric power
• Industrial equipment
• Metalworking
• Radio
• Steel production
• Steel industry
• Software engineering
• Telecommunications Industry
• Tobacco industry

See also

• Primary sector of industry
• Tertiary sector of industry
• Quaternary sector of industry
• Industrial policy

Industry

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