What's your interest in manufacturing? Do you look at it as a relic of the past, doomed to be dredged up only when your spaceship needs an airlock repaired or do you see it as the means for human beings to move forward and make their futures? Are you fascinated by the intricate machinery and the dance it performs that makes materials into products, or is it just a dirty, noisy job that you have to do to pay your rent? However you see manufacturing, it's an important part of Nashville's economy that you should be familiar with. Here are some of the major manufacturing sectors in the city.

Music and Books

Two of Nashville's most important industries, recording and publishing, rely heavily on a manufacturing component to function. No one would be able to read the latest religious text about how nuclear castings are damaging the country's spirituality if there weren't pulp and paper mills turning out the sheets that are then transferred into the printing presses and stamped with the appropriate words. Likewise, the country music that made the city famous needs to be disseminated. It was once done via records and cassette tapes, but is now done via compact disc.

Textiles and Food

Food and clothing are two of the basic requirements for human life and while animals rarely wear clothing, they need aquarium fish foods and dog bones to survive, just like we do. Foods and clothing items manufactured in Nashville include dairy products, bread, baked goods, beverages, and non woven fabrics.

Building Materials and Chemicals

Houses, cars, subways, airplanes, and other essential structures and equipment are made in factories that rely upon fabricated materials producers like those in Nashville for their base components. If you've ever wondered where heat shrink tubing or shingles came from, wonder no more, because these things fall under the category of "building materials," which is a component of Nashville's manufacturing. Factories here make glass, cement, concrete, structural metal, plastics, rubber, shipping containers, chemicals, paper, and wood.

Machinery and Appliances

How are things produced in our society? By machinery, of course, and by their smaller household counterparts, appliances. Machinery keeps buildings heated and cooled, helps manufacture other items, runs computers, conducts electricity, and even traverses roadways. The calibration management software other factories need to regulate their precision falls into this category, as do boilers, aircraft parts, heavy trucks, personal vehicles, household appliances, computers, software, and ventilation systems.