الصناعات المعدنية في مدينة كربلاء المقدسة واقعها واتجاهاتها المستقبلية

Mineral industries in the holy city of karbala reality and future trends

   The current study shows the reality of metal industries in the holy city of Kerbala and its future dimensions. Metal industries are regarded as one of the important industries in Iraq in general and in the holy city of Kerbala in specific. That importance is due to its ability to employ a large number of hands as well as its ability to raise the population living levels and to decrease unemployment. That is because it mainly relates to consumer’s taste and desire. In addition to that is knowing the geographical distributions of the metal industries according to various standards ( number of factories, number of hands, capital costs, machines costs, the total area of construction, construction area, payment value ).
These industries started, day after day, grow up and develop to company the increasing demand on their products due to the continuous growth and development in population growth in the holy city of Kerbala reaching population quarters to 66 in 2016. The high spread of these industries inside the inhabited quarters in the holy city of Kerbala concentrated in 19 geographical sites. The main products of these metal industries are doors, windows, fences, divisions, shades, counters, gas kiln, water tank, air conditioning ducts, mortar hands, etc.
The researcher limited Kerbala – Al Hur axil as a base direction, growth, development, and expecting the future metal industries due to the suitable spatial geographical qualifications. That is because the metal industries metal industries were found as a sample of the area polluted industries for holy Kerbala environment.
This calls for paying more attention and development in the future. It is also a kind of industries that have direct harms on the employees’ health due to the painting material and welding flash that causes eye damage, severe nose allergy, and other diseases that hurt the employees.
The higher concentration of metal industries in the holy city of Kerbala was in Al Huderyah section as the first rank among other sections. It reached to 424 factories, while the highest concentration of metal industries in one quarter of the holy city of Kerbala was the industrial quarter which reached to 295 factories.