Raige Heavy Industries

Heavy industry is a type of business that involves large-scale undertakings, big equipment, large areas of land, high cost, and high barriers to entry.

Heavy industry tends to be cyclical, benefiting from the start of an economic upturn as investments are made into more expensive, longer-term projects, such as buildings, aerospace, and defense products.

Heavy industry tends to sell what it produces to other industrial customers, versus the end customer, making it a part of the supply chain of other products.

It contrasts with light industry, or production that is small-scale which can be completed in factories or small facilities, costs less, and have lower barriers to entry.