smokestack industry

noun

1. informal.
   any of the traditional British industries, esp heavy engineering or manufacturing, as opposed to such modern industries as electronics

Example Sentences

We are still a place where old men gather under the onion domes of the Russian Orthodox churches in the Tremont neighborhood and shake fists at the holes in the sky where their steel mills used to be, while swells in martini bars toast the death of smokestack industry.

From New York Times

Geenen added that the paper industry “gets a bad rap because it’s a smokestack industry, but it is a model that other people should be looking at.”

From Washington Post

Is location for smokestack industry as important in the first part of the 21st century as it was in 1900?

From Forbes

“The ‘90s were a tough period where the minerals industry was regarded as a smokestack industry.’’

From BusinessWeek

Modern manufacturing isn’t the smokestack industry most people think of.

From Forbes