Industry of Uzbekistan4

Industry of Uzbekistan4
Uzbekistan's industrial sector accounted for 33 percent of its NMP in 1991. Despite some
efforts to diversify its industrial base, industry remains dominated by raw materials extraction
and processing, most of which is connected with cotton production and minerals. In 1993 total
manufacturing had decreased by 1 percent from its 1990 level, and mining output had decreased
by more than 8 percent.
Light Industry
The predominant light industries are primary processing of cotton, wool, and silk into fabric for
export, and food processing. In 1989 light industry accounted for 27.1 percent of industrial
production; that category was completely dominated by two sectors, textiles (18.2 percent) and
agricultural food processing (8.9 percent). The nature of the Uzbek textile industry in the mid-
1990s reflects the Soviet allotment to Uzbekistan of primary textile processing rather than
production of finished products. Food processing has diversified to some degree; the industry
specializes in production of dried apricots, raisins, and peaches. Other products are cottonseed
oil for cooking, wine, and tobacco


Specialty equipment: Machine tools
The machine tool is the principal manufacturing equipment in a machine shop. It is essential in the manufacture of every product from a giant turbine to minute jewels for aircraft instruments.
One of the simplest tools is the ordinary drilling machine. It consists of a spindle which
imparts rotary motion to the drilling tool, mechanism for feeding the tool into the work, a table
on which the work rests, and frame. The drilling machines or drill presses are grouped into the
following four classes: sensitive, upright, radial and multi-spindle machines.
A milling machine is a machine-tool that removes metal as the work is fed against a
rotating cutter.
The lathe is a machine tool which can perform a wide variety of operations. It is primarily
used for turning and boring operations. In addition, the lathe can be used for drilling, reaming,
tapping and, by employing suitable adapters, operations of milling and grinding may be carried
out without difficulty.
The lathe is the oldest machine-tool, but it is still widely used. There are many types of lathes that differ in their size, design, method of drive, arrangement of gears and purpose.
According to the character of work performed, the design and construction lathes are
divided into the following types: bench lathes, chucking lathes and automatic lathes. There are
also screw machines, boring mills, crankshaft lathes, wheel lathes, etc.