processing plants
Where raw becomes refined
Processing plants are industrial facilities where raw materials are transformed into finished or intermediate products.
The term spans many industries: food processing plants convert agricultural products into packaged goods, meat processing plants handle slaughter and butchering, and chemical processing plants refine petroleum or manufacture compounds.
The tomatoes go straight from the fields to the processing plant.
- canneryFood preservation factory
- meatpackingProcessing livestock into food
- glassworksFactory making transparent material
- slaughterhouseAnimal killing facility
- oil refineryPetroleum processing facility
brewery · steel mill · paper mill · sugar refinery · assembly line · conveyor belt · seafood markets · fish processing · bakery · bycatch · quotas · sawmill · aquaculture · fishing vessels · smelter · nets · nuclear power station · factory
- agriculturefarms, crops, farm, farmers, farming
- fishing industrycommercial fishing, fishing fleet, fishing vessels, fishing ports, fishing port
- industrializationfactory, industrial revolution, Industrial Revolution, factories, manufacturing
- industryfactories, factory, automotive, manufacturing plants, aerospace
- manufacturingfactories, factory, car factory, assembly plants, electronics factory
- agribusinessagribusiness, farm, farms, corporate farms, factory farming
processing plantswarehouses
Large goods storage buildings
storage facilities · cold storage · stockpiles · depots · distribution centers
processing plantsnatural habitats
Organisms' original living environments
wilderness · mines · quarries · farms · fisheries
processing plantsretail outlets
Stores selling to consumers
end consumers · points of sale · markets · households · restaurants