UNIT 2 SECONDARY SECTOR

Secondary industries are those that take the raw materials produced by the primary sector and process them to produce manufactured products. 

We can talk of different types of products: intermediate products and consumer products.

 Intermediate products are products that might require further processing before it is saleable to the ultimate consumer, or with other words, these are products that are used to make other products. This further processing might be done by the producer or by another processor. An example could be timber and steel because they are used to produce the final product that can be a house or a building.

Consumer products are products that can be bought by consumers for personal use. An example is the automotive industry that transforms the intermediate products like the steel into consumer products like cars.

The secondary-sector industries in Spain are mainly located along the coast of  País Vasco and in Cataluña. In the past they were important industries: the metal industry, the construction industry and the shipbuilding. In the last year other industries are rising like food, motor, chemical, and technological industries, which produce electronic products and computer components.