Heavy Engineering
Heavy Engineering : That branch of engineering: (a) which characteristically but not exclusively uses as its raw material ferrous or non-ferrous metals in the form of plate having a thickness greater than 4.5 mm or in the form of angles, shapes, and sections exceeding 80 mm by 80 mm in cross-section; or (b) which is engaged in the machining of components or items large enough to require cranage to present or locate the workpiece to or in a machine tool being used in the fabrication of machines, equipment, or structures. Typical items include steel fabrication for buildings, bridges, and towers; storage tanks and containers; pressure vessels; firetube boilers; process machinery, metal-working machinery; saw-milling and log-handling equipment; cranes, hoists, forklift trucks, rail wagons, and transporters; construction and mining equipment; equipment used in the energy industry, in fertiliser manufacture, pulp and paper manufacture; and ships.
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