The manufacturing industry concerns economic and spatial aspects such as: the supply of natural resources, their transformation, the distribution of the finished product and the related consequences for the environment.
In the centuries following the industrial revolution, manufacturing activity affected economic and territorial organisation. The birth of manufacturing was preceded by other economic, social and technological transformations that made it possible.
The manufacturing sector is fundamental in all modern economic systems and its industry is often synonymous with the secondary sector and deals with the transformation of primary goods.
The activity can be divided into three main phases:
- supply of raw materials;
- production or transformation of the primary good into a finished or semi-finished product. Clearly, the longer and more complex the transformation process, the more the added value attributed to the final price of the product will increase;
- distribution of the good produced on the market.
