0 a traditional industry that produces large machines or materials used in other industries and creates pollution in doing so:
There's been a steady decline in smokestack industries such as shipbuilding and steel.
1 an industry involved in making things using processes that burn a lot of coal or oil and produce a lot of pollution:
Unlike old smokestack industries that stagnated in the 1970s and 1980s, the tech field is strong and diverse.
The transition from the smokestack industries of the past has been painful, but necessary.
That fight was not a fight for a smokestack industry.
This is not a smokestack industry to be decently buried; it is not a lame duck industry producing an unwanted product at an unacceptable price.
The shipping industry is emphatically not a smokestack industry that is simply looking for handouts.
It is not a smokestack industry that has been gradually run down.
We need a new maritime policy which should recognised that shipbuilding is not a smokestack industry or a thing of the past.
So is the fact that local air and water quality tends to improve with the expansion of the service sector and the relocation of smokestack industries.
But this increase in scale brought coal mining into the same economic sphere as the other smokestack industries of the time, including the railroads and iron manufacturing.
We were often told that changes were inevitable as old outdated smokestack industries declined.
