Metal industry - manufacturing industry ; includes metal repair (car, ship and etc.), tool, sanitary and technical industry, production of metal structures, metal accessories, hardware for cultural and economic purposes. [one]
Together with the engineering industry is considered as a machine-building complex .
It occupies a key position in the field of industrial production, since it supplies metalworking production technology to all industries and thereby contributes significantly to the growth of labor productivity in industry.
Enterprises and associations of the metalworking industry can be included in various sectors of the economy: forestry and woodworking, medical industry, in various branches of engineering, etc. [1]
Metal processing company can perform any work on metal processing, from simple metal cutting to the manufacture of high-tech and sophisticated products and parts. Enterprises of other industries ( engineering ) may include a metalworking shop.
- Metalworking is the process of working with metal, as a result of which individual metal assemblies or entire structures are created from it. Metal processing in sheets is used in the construction of houses, engineering, construction of railways, equipment and ships.
History
Metalworking enterprises existed in ancient times, however, the methods of metal processing were significantly different from modern methods. Forged metal-working enterprises can rightfully be considered as forges .
At present, hand metalworking is quite rare, this function is performed by a variety of specialized, multifunctional program-controlled machines that are installed by metalworking enterprises.
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- ↑ 1 2 Large Encyclopedic Dictionary. 2000