Manufacturing

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Manufacturing Industrial Location Theory
Chapter 10

• Questions
• Review
• Labour
• Energy
• Environment Issues
• Evaluation
• Corporate strategy

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Labour productivity

• Varies from region to region
• Depends on
• Industrial structure
• Education
• Technology
• Capital

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Source Baldwin et al Statistics Canada 2001
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Source Baldwin et al Statistics Canada 2001
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Labour and skills

• Sharply differentiated
• Division of labour
• Skills training
• Deskilling

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Energy

• Renewable
• Hydro-electric
• Solar, wind
• Tidal, geothermal
• Non-renewable
• Fossil fuels coal, oil, gas
• Nuclear fission

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Aluminum

• Electrolysis
• AluminaCarbon?AluminumCO2
• Alumina from bauxite, gross RM
• No bauxite in Canada, formed by solution in
  sub-tropical regions
• Yet Canada is world class Al producer!
• Kitimat and Lac St-Jean region
• Why?

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ALCAN, Alma, Quebec
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Environmental Factors

• Impact varies
• By industry
• By technology
• By region, depending on policy

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Dryden,Ontario
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Environmental Impact

• 1970s - Hg in English-Wabigoon system
• Grassy Narrows IR, Minimata disease
• Dryden Chemicals?Weyerhauser

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Beef Evaluation Advisory Committee

• Wastewater
• Continuous sampling, user pay
• Pre-treatment
• Organics in sewage!
• 5 major waste water producers
• Cogeneration

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Beef Evaluation Advisory Committee

• Stormwater
• Livestock
• Water consumption
• Solid waste disposal
• Air quality
• Transportation noise