SECONDARY ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES (PT.1)

Secondary Economic Activities

Involves taking raw materials and making them into a finished/semi-finished product

Sawmill (Raw material, Semi-finished product, Finished product)

Trunk of a tree - Planks of wood - Table or door

Different types of industry (3)

Heavy Industry – Light Industry – Multi-national Corporations (MNC's) / Footloose Industry

Heavy Industry

Aughinish Alumina factory on the Shannon Estuary

Mineral

Bauxite (imported from the Republic of Guinea)

Aughinish Alumina makes

Alumina, a white powder used for aluminiuim (semi-finished product)

Employs

460 people

The alumina is

Exported by ship to aluminium smelters in the UK and Scandinavia

Aughinish Alumina (Inputs, Processes, Outputs)

Bauxite + energy + labour maintence – Refining/Smelting - Alumina + red mud waste

Light Industry

Intel

Intel makes

Microprocessors (computer chips) for laptops and PC's

Why did Intel locate in Leixlip? (4)

Skilled workers – Airport and port – Greenland site – Solid bedrock

Skilled workers

Colleges like NUI Maynooth provide skilled workers Intel need

Airport and Dublin port

These make it easy to access materials

Greenland site

There was a large greenland site zoned as industrial land

Solid bedrock

Solid bedrock in the area prevents vibrations in the ground

Benefits Intel bring to Ireland

Factory – Employment – Equipment donations – Corporation Tax

Factory

The Intel plant in Leixlip is the largest Intel factory outside the US

Employment

Over 4,900 people are employed, and a huge amount of spin-off employment is connected to Intel

Equipment Donations

Intel makes equipment donations to schools and universities

Corporation Tax

Intel pays corporation tax to the Irish government

Light Industry (Inputs, Processors, Outputs)

Workers - Smoulding - Microchips. Electricity - Measuring - Microprocessors.