Manufacturing plants

thumb|250px|Volkswagen factory in [[Wolfsburg, Germany]]

thumb|right|Kettles in a modern Trappist beer|Trappist brewery

thumb|Large bricks on a conveyor belt in a modern European factory setting A brickworks, also known as a brick factory, is a factory for the manufacturing of bricks, from clay or shale. Usually a brickworks is located on a clay bedrock (the most common material from which bricks are made), often with a quarry for clay on site. In earlier times bricks were made at brickfields, which would be returned to agricultural use after the clay layer was exhausted.

factory where devices such as integrated circuits are manufactured

production facility where coke and raw gas is produced

equipment that combines various ingredients to form concrete

engineering study to analyze physical configurations for a manufacturing plant

building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States

Vietnamese state-owned weapons-manufacturing factory

closed system enabling year-round vegetable production