Venezuelan Manufacturing and Industrial Sectors Defined
Manufacturing: Production Phase Details
Manufacturing: The production phase is intermediate between the artisanal and mechanized stages. It is characterized by a low division of labor, home-based work, and the introduction of socialization in the production process.
This represents the set of economic activities for the transformation of raw or semi-processed materials into products through a mechanical process involving division of labor and specialization.
Types of Industry in Venezuela:
- Industry: This is the application responsible for the technical work, capital, and organization of production processes and distribution of goods.
- Light Industries: These produce goods or articles for consumption or use, such as textiles, food, and pharmaceutical products.
- Intermediate Industries: These produce goods that are subsequently used as feedstock for other industries, such as the chemical industry producing raw material for the pharmaceutical industry.
- Heavy Industries: These produce semi-finished goods necessary for the manufacture of production instruments (e.g., the steel industry).
- Traditional Industries: These originate from artisanal and domestic production, but their goal is to meet the basic needs of the population.
- Intermediate Industry (Redundant): Producing raw materials for other industries.
- Trades: Those that produce machinery for personal use.
- Residual Group: These are the various industries that are not included within the categories previously identified and explained.
Industries in Venezuela
Industries are classified based on their function and output:
- Basic Industries: These transform important natural resources of the country and are characterized by involving a considerable investment of capital sums. Examples include oil, electricity, and aluminum.
- Steel Industry: This industry transforms iron ore into metals through metallurgical processes called "steel." It is based on the purification of the metal iron. Steelmaking in Venezuela is carried out through the plant Siderúrgica del Orinoco (Sidor), located in the northeastern state of Bolívar.
- Petrochemical Industry: Responsible for transforming petroleum raw materials into chemicals of high economic utility value. Its objective is the processing of hydrocarbon elements to convert them into intermediate and final products.
Industrial Areas in Venezuela:
- Central and Capital Region
- Region Zuliana
- West Central Region
- Region of Guayana
- Region of the Andes
- North-East Region
- Region de los Llanos
- Region Indígena (Indigenous Region - *Assumed completion*)