تحليل جغرافيّ لصناعة منتجات الألمنيوم في محافظة بابل وآفاقها المستقبليّة

Rp-Geographical Analysis of the Aluminum Products industry in Babil Governorate and Its future Prospects .pdf

Aluminum products industry is one of the branches of modern manufacturing industry. The importance of this industry comes from the fact that it is a vital industry that attracts large numbers of workers, in addition to providing hard currency and meeting the local need for aluminum products, which is constantly increasing. Studying the subject of aluminum products industry is important because the aluminum products industry has a major role in the economic activity in Babil Governorate and Iraq in general, as it works to raise the economic and social level of the study area because it is one of the industries that invests capital and also provides job opportunities for many of the unemployed. Therefore, the study aims to reveal the spatial variation of the aluminum products industry in Babil Governorate. Because it is one of the important industries in the study area and its economic importance in meeting the needs of the population, The research relied on a set of scientific methods, including (the regional method, the historical method, and the descriptive and inferential method). It also relied on quantitative methods represented in analyzing data and information after obtaining them from the field of study, organizing them, and categorizing them.
The research reached a set of results, the most prominent of which was the geographical location that connects the central and southern governorates with the northern governorates. This resulted in flexibility in obtaining raw materials from various governorates at lower costs. This also helped in creating a market for the sale of aluminum products to most of the country’s governorates, as there are (165) facilities in Babylon Governorate for the manufacture of aluminum products according to the random sample that was adopted in the study, as they were distributed over (7) districts, namely (Hillah District, Al-Kifl District, Al-Mahawil District, Al-Hashimiyah District, Al-Musayyab District, Kutha District, Al-Qasim District) and distributed over (19) administrative units, all of which are affiliated with the private sector and are small and medium enterprises, as the number of workers in it reached (827). According to future forecasts for the aluminum products industry in the study area, the researcher believes that there will be an increase in the number of industrial facilities, as it will reach (340) facilities for the manufacture of aluminum products in the year (2033) and the number of workers will reach (1326) workers in the governorate Babylon. As for the most prominent proposals that came from the study, they were represented by investing the available potential for industrial activity represented in the amount of mineral resources reserves, as Iraq possesses many and varied minerals, including bauxite ore, which was discovered in Anbar Governorate in 1990, and its reserves amount to about one million tons, as well as in the northern and undulating region of Iraq, where its quantities are estimated at hundreds of thousands of tons. Considering that bauxite is the basic raw material for the aluminum industry, its mining contributes to the development of industry in Iraq and Babylon Governorate instead of relying on imports, activating the law to protect national industries in general and the aluminum products industry in particular.