what is heavy industry 
heavy industry relates to a type of business that typically carries a high capital cost capital intensive high barriers to entry and low transportability the term heavy refers to the fact that the items produced by heavy industry used to be products such as iron coal oil ships etc today the reference also refers to industries that disrupt the environment in the form of pollution deforestation etc understanding heavy industryheavy industry businesses typically involve large and heavy products or large and heavy equipment and facilities such as large machine tools and huge buildings or complex or numerous processes because of those factors heavy industry involves higher capital intensity than light industry does heavy industry is also often more heavily cyclical in investment and employment products that result from heavy industry tend to be large in size and low in terms of transportability 