Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism

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Factory

This activity includes the manufacture of intermediate and final products from mined or quarried non-metallic minerals, such as sand, gravel, stone or clay. This activity includes: - Manufacture of refractory products: Refractory mortars, concretes etc; refractory ceramic goods; heat-insulating ceramic goods of siliceous fossil meals; refractory bricks, blocks and tiles etc; retorts, crucibles, muffles, nozzles, tubes, pipes etc; refractory articles containing magnesite, dolomite or chromite. - Manufacture of clay building materials: non-refractory ceramic hearth or wall tiles, mosaic cubes etc; manufacture of non-refractory ceramic flags and paving; structural non-refractory clay building materials such as ceramic bricks, roofing tiles, chimney pots, pipes, conduits etc; flooring blocks in baked clay; ceramic sanitary fixtures - Manufacture of cement, lime and plaster: clinkers and hydraulic cements, including Portland, aluminous cement, slag cement and superphosphate cements; quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime; manufacture of plasters of calcined gypsum or calcined sulphate; manufacture of calcined dolomite - Manufacture of articles of concrete, cement and plaster: precast concrete, cement or artificial stone articles for use in construction; prefabricated structural components for buildings or civil engineering of cement, concrete or artificial stone; plaster articles for use in construction; powdered mortars; ready-mix and dry-mix concrete and mortarsThis activity also includes: - cutting, shaping and finishing of stone for use in construction, in cemeteries, on roads, as roofing etc. - manufacture of stone furniture