Due to its geographic location and rich resources

Due to its geographic location and rich resources, Australia has a wide range of covered industries. Here, machine building, printing, textile, oil refining, metallurgy and other industries are developing steadily. At the same time manufacturing industry in Australia is considered one of the most developed in the world. On the production of electricity per capital, the country regularly takes first positions. Raw materials industries also keep pace, providing products with domestic market needs. Moreover, well-established exports have long become the main reference point for a number of enterprises. Industry in many sectors is no less actively supplying the world market with its goods. This is reflected in the economic climate within the country, and on the investment attractiveness of the local economy foreign partners.

General characteristics of industry The advanced branch of the country is precisely the industry, since in this sphere a third of the population is employed. The most successful areas are extractive economy, ferrous metallurgy, automotive, food, chemical, light and other industries in Australia, not to mention energy. In terms of exports of bauxite and coal, the country is in the first place, and on the supply of iron ore - on the second. In addition, gold mining has also been established, export of which brings considerable profit to enterprises. About 35% of Australia's total exports are primary metals, fuel raw materials and minerals.

Perhaps, this is one of the main segments of the Australian economy. The region is provided with a multitude of mineral resources, the use of which allowed the state to become one of the largest suppliers of rocks in the world. In particular, Australia's mining industry is focused on the development of quarries with bauxite, opals, diamonds and lead. There is mining of coal, manganese and iron ore. In addition, zinc, silver, tin, nickel, tungsten, titanium and other metals are mined. It is the use of this raw material that allowed the country to form a powerful metallurgical industry. This, incidentally, applies to other branches of the Australian economy. The independence of the region from imports greatly facilitates the development of new sectors at the expense of its own available raw materials.

The basis of the state's energy potential is coal - stone and brown. The only problem in this sector is the lack of provision of natural gas and oil. Since many industries in Australia require the use of these resources, some enterprises are supplied with imported supplies. In recent years, oil companies have significantly increased their output. Still, most of the existing power plants are in TPPs that work on coal. Metallurgical enterprises and developed transport networks provide a modern infrastructure of energy facilities, which increases their effectiveness.

If Australia's mining industry is self-sufficient and independent (at least from imports), then modern energy, in view of technological features, requires recharge external resources. Hydropower reserves have limitations, but for minimal supply of their capacity is enough. Hydroelectric power plants are mainly located on the island of Tasmania and in the so-called Australian Alps.

Transport engineering can be called the pride of the region. The largest auto industry centers are located in Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth. The equipment for providing railway infrastructure is manufactured in Sydney and Newcastle, and shipbuilding enterprises are located in Davenport and Brisbane. However, strict territorial division of industries is not observed. Agricultural engineering is also the basis without which Australia has long been without it. The industry of this industry is mainly located in the southeast of the country

Chemical enterprises are also concentrated in the southern part of the continent. Factories produce acids, explosives, fertilizers for agriculture, synthetic masses and plastic resins.

Australia firmly holds the leading positions in the world market of industry. Many factors contribute to this, but there also unfavorable aspects. For example, the industry has its difficulties, but the introduction of new technologies and the optimized use of imported raw materials help the state support the growth of production volumes. Despite all the difficulties, the region stably maintains its occupied places in the lists of leading industrial countries. A balanced economy helps in this, without which it is impossible to maintain an industry that is more of an unstable industry.