Utah’s Top Ten Industries (GSP) More . . .
Utah Industrial Energy Use Utah is 35th in the nation in industrial energy use and 36th in the nation in total energy use. The industrial sector accounts for 36% of the total state electrical consumption, 33% of the total natural gas use and 19% of the total petroleum consumption. (Utah Energy Statistics, Utah Division of Natural Resources. 1997)
Mining At $1.76 billion in 1997, Utah’s non-fuels mineral-industry production value was fifth in the nation The Utah’s mining industry is a significant part of the State’s industrial economy, accounting for 1.8 billion of the 8 billion dollar industrial sector, and 8,000 of the 274,800 industrial sector jobs. More…
Metals Utah’s metals industry contributed 616 million to the states economy and includes primary production of copper, magnesium, steel and zirconium as well as gold refining. Utah has iron, steel, aluminum and copper foundries, an aluminum extrusion plant, copper and aluminum wire plants, metal heat treating and coating facilities as well as numerous metals fabrication plants. More…
Petroleum At 483 million dollars value, the petroleum and coal products sector is a significant portion of Utah’s industrial product. Utah has 5 petroleum refineries with a total combined crude capacity of 158,500 barrels/day, accounting for 29% of the mountain region operating capacity. More…
Technology Utah’s technology sector is industrial as well as software and e-commerce related. Rocket motors, aircraft control systems, airbags that use rocket propellant to inflate in milliseconds, satellites, composite materials, aircraft and missile turbines, are some of the products of Utah’s hard-hat technology industry — worth over 2.3 billion. More…
