SIC 2812 Alkalies and Chlorine - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry classification includes establishments engaged in manufacturing alkalies and chlorine. Examples of products include compressed or liquefied chlorine, sodium or potassium hydroxide, sodium bicarbonate, and soda ash (not produced at mines).
SIC 2813 Industrial Gases - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry classification contains establishments primarily involved in manufacturing industrial gases (organic as well as inorganic) that may be sold in compressed, liquid, or solid form. Industrial gases include acetylene, argon, carbon dioxide, helium, hydrogen, neon, nitrogen, nitrous oxide, and oxygen.
SIC 2816 Inorganic Pigments - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry classification is comprised of establishments engaged in manufacturing inorganic color pigments, white pigments, and black pigments, including animal black and bone black. Carbon black is classified in SIC 2895: Carbon Black.
SIC 2819 Industrial Inorganic Chemicals, Not Elsewhere Classified - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category includes establishments primarily involved in manufacturing industrial inorganic chemicals not elsewhere classified. A few examples are alum, ammonium compounds (except for fertilizer), industrial bleaches (sodium or calcium hypochlorite), chemical catalysts, hydrazine, hydrochloric acid, hydrogen peroxide, inorganic sodium compounds, and sulfuric acid.
SIC 2821 Plastic Materials and Resins - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
The plastic materials and resins industry is comprised of companies primarily engaged in manufacturing various resins and plastics for sale to other industries that create plastic sheets, rods, films, and other products. Information on related products can be found under SIC 2822: Synthetic Rubber, SIC 2823: Cellulose Man-made Fibers, and SIC 2824: Organic Fibers—Noncellulosic.
SIC 2822 Synthetic Rubber (Vulcanizable Elastomers) - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing synthetic rubber by polymerization or copolymerization. An elastomer, for the purpose of this classification, is a rubber-like material capable of vulcanization, such as copolymers of butadiene and styrene, or butadiene and acrylonitrile, polybutadienes, chloroprene rubbers, and isobutylene-isoprene copolymers.
SIC 2823 Cellulosic Manmade Fibers - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
The cellulosic manmade fiber industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing rayon and acetate fibers in the form of monofilament, yarn, staple, or tow. These fibers are suitable for further manufacturing in other industries on spindles, looms, knitting machines, or other textile processing equipment.
SIC 2824 Organic Fibers—Noncellulosic - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing noncellulosic, or synthetic, fibers comprise the manmade organic fibers industry. The fibers are created in the form of monofilament, yarn, staple, or tow suitable for further manufacturing on spindles, looms, knitting machines, or other textile processing equipment.
SIC 2833 Medicinal Chemicals and Botanical Products - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing bulk organic and inorganic medicinal chemicals and their derivatives, as well as processing—grading, grinding, milling—bulk botanical drugs and herbs. Included in this industry are establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing agar and similar products of natural origin, endocrine products, manufacturing or isolating basic vitamins, and isolating active medicinal principals from botanical drugs and herbs.
SIC 2834 Pharmaceutical Preparations - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing, fabricating, or processing drugs in pharmaceutical preparations for human or veterinary use. The greater part of the products of these establishments are finished in the form intended for final consumption, such as ampoules, tablets, capsules, vials, ointments, medicinal powders, solutions, and suspensions.
SIC 2835 In Vitro and in Vivo Diagnostic Substances - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing in vitro ("in glass," such as a test tube) and in vivo ("in the body") diagnostic substances, whether or not packaged for retail sale. These materials are chemical, biological, or radioactive substances used in diagnosing or monitoring the state of human or veterinary health by identifying and measuring normal or abnormal constituents of body fluids or tissues.
SIC 2836 Biological Products, Except Diagnostic Substances - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in the production of bacterial and virus vaccines, toxoids, and analogous products (such as allergenic extracts), serums, plasmas, and other blood derivatives for human or veterinary use, other than in vitro and in vivo diagnostic substances. Included in this industry are establishments primarily engaged in the production of micro-biological products for other uses.
SIC 2841 Soap and Other Detergents, Except Specialty Cleaners - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category includes establishments primarily engaged in the manufacture of soap and detergents. It includes companies who make crude and refined glycerin products from fats, or synthetic detergents such as laundry detergents, dishwashing compounds, and personal cleansing bars.
SIC 2842 Specialty Cleaning, Polishing, and Sanitation Preparations - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category includes companies that primarily make specialty cleaning products (those designed for specific surfaces such as bathrooms, ovens, drains, carpets, and upholstery), polishes and waxes (such as for furniture, metal, flooring, and glass), and other sanitation preparations including disinfectants and deodorizers. This category also includes companies making products such as household bleaches and ammonia, laundry starches, and fabric softeners.
SIC 2843 Surface Active Agents, Finishing Agents, Sulfonated Oils, and Assistants - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry classification includes establishments primarily involved in making compounds that, when dissolved in water, reduce the water's surface tension. Products include preparations such as wetting agents, emulsifiers, and penetrants.
SIC 2844 Perfumes, Cosmetics, and Other Toilet Preparations - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing perfumes, cosmetics, and other toilet preparations. Manufacturers of shampoos, shaving products, personal deodorants, hair preparations, suntan lotions and oils, talcum powders, toothpastes and powders, mouthwashes, and premoistened towelettes are included.
SIC 2851 Paints, Varnishes, Lacquers, Enamels, and Allied Products - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry category includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing paints (in paste and ready-mixed form); varnishes; lacquers; enamels; shellac; dry powder coatings; putties, wood fillers, and sealers; paint and varnish removers; paintbrush cleaners; and allied paint products.
SIC 2861 Gum and Wood Chemicals - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
The gum and wood chemicals industry is comprised of establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing hardwood and softwood distillation products, natural dyes, tanning materials, and related products. Companies that make synthetic organic tanning materials and synthetic organic dyes are classified in SIC 2869: Industrial Organic Chemicals, Not Elsewhere Classified and SIC 2865: Cyclic Organic Crudes and Intermediates, and Organic Dyes and Pigments, respectively.
SIC 2865 Cyclic Organic Crudes and Intermediates and Organic Dyes and Pigments - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing cyclic organic crudes and intermediates and organic dyes and pigments. Important products of this industry include (1) aromatic chemicals such as benzene, toluene, mixed xylenes, and naphthalene;(2) synthetic organic dyes; and (3) synthetic organic pigments.
SIC 2869 Industrial Organic Chemicals, Not Elsewhere Classified - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry includes companies primarily engaged in the production of organic chemicals used by other manufacturing industries. It encompasses the majority of U.S.
SIC 2873 Nitrogenous Fertilizers - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing nitrogenous fertilizer materials or mixed fertilizers from nitrogenous materials produced in the same establishment.
SIC 2874 Phosphatic Fertilizers - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing phosphatic fertilizer materials, or mixed fertilizers from phosphatic materials produced in the same establishment.
SIC 2875 Fertilizers, Mixing Only - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in mixing fertilizers from already-processed fertilizer materials. In the industry, "fertilizer materials" refers specifically to fertilizers that have no more than one of the three primary plant nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium).
SIC 2879 Pesticides and Agricultural Chemicals, Not Elsewhere Classified - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category includes establishments primarily engaged in the formulation and preparation of ready-to-use agricultural and household pesticides from technical chemicals or concentrates, and the production of concentrates that require further processing before use as agricultural pesticides. This industry also includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing or formulating agricultural chemicals, not elsewhere classified, such as minor or trace elements and soil conditioners.
SIC 2891 Adhesives and Sealants - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
The adhesives and sealants industry consists primarily of manufacturers of industrial and household adhesives, glues, caulking compounds, sealants, and linoleum, tile, and rubber cements from vegetable, animal, or synthetic plastics materials, purchased or produced in the same establishment. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing gelatin and sizes are classified in SIC 2899: Chemicals and Chemical Preparations, Not Elsewhere Classified, and those manufacturing vegetable gelatin or agar-agar are classified in SIC 2833: Medicinal Chemicals and Botanical Products.
SIC 2892 Explosives - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing explosives. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing ammunition for small arms are classified in SIC 3482: Small Arms Ammunition, and those manufacturing fireworks are classified in SIC 2899: Chemicals and Chemical Preparations, Not Elsewhere Classified.
SIC 2893 Printing Ink - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This classification includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing printing ink, including gravure ink, screen process ink, and lithographic ink. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing writing ink and fluids are classified in SIC 2899: Chemicals and Chemical Preparations, Not Elsewhere Classified.
SIC 2895 Carbon Black - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing carbon black (channel and furnace black). Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing bone and lamp black are classified in SIC 2816: Inorganic Pigments.
SIC 2899 Chemicals and Chemical Preparations, Not Elsewhere Classified - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry consists primarily of establishments engaged in manufacturing miscellaneous chemical preparations, not elsewhere classified, such as fatty acids, essential oils, gelatin (except vegetable), sizes, bluing, laundry sours, writing and stamp pad ink, industrial compounds, such as boiler and heat insulating compounds, metal, oil, and water treating compounds, waterproofing compounds, and chemical supplies for foundries. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing vegetable gelatin are classified in SIC 2833: Medicinal Chemicals and Botanical Products; those manufacturing dessert preparations based on gelatin are classified in SIC 2099: Food Preparations, Not Elsewhere Classified; those manufacturing printing ink are classified in SIC 2893: Printing Ink; and those manufacturing drawing ink are classified in SIC 3952: Lead Pencils, Crayons, and Artists' Materials.