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Types of Manufacturing

The document outlines the three main types of industry: primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors. Primary production involves acquiring raw materials, secondary production focuses on manufacturing and assembly, and tertiary production encompasses commercial services that support the production and distribution process. Together, these sectors form a chain of production that delivers finished goods and services to customers.

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Types of Manufacturing

The document outlines the three main types of industry: primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors. Primary production involves acquiring raw materials, secondary production focuses on manufacturing and assembly, and tertiary production encompasses commercial services that support the production and distribution process. Together, these sectors form a chain of production that delivers finished goods and services to customers.

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Primary, secondary and tertiary sectors

There are three main types of industry in which firms operate.


These sectors form a chain of production which provides customers with
finished goods or services.
Primary production: this involves acquiring raw materials. For
example, metals and coal have to be mined, oil drilled from the
ground, rubber tapped from trees, foodstuffs farmed and fish trawled.
This is sometimes known as extractive production.
Secondary production: this is the manufacturing and
assembly process. It involves converting raw materials into
components, for example, making plastics from oil. It also involves
assembling the product, eg building houses, bridges and roads.
Tertiary production: this refers to the commercial services that
support the production and distribution process, eg insurance,
transport, advertising, warehousing and other services such as
teaching and health care.

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