SIC 3411 Metal Cans - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

The metal can and shipping container industry includes companies engaged in the manufacture of metal cans from purchased materials, primarily steel and aluminum. The majority of the cans and containers produced in this industry are used to package various foods and beverages.

SIC 3412 Metal Shipping Barrels, Drums, Kegs, and Pails - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing metal shipping barrels, drums, kegs, and pails.

SIC 3421 Cutlery - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category includes establishments primarily engaged in the manufacture of items such as pocket knives, safety razors, razor blades, straight razors, table cutlery, scissors, shears, manicure tools, kitchen and butcher knives, and artisan's knives. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing precious metal cutlery and table cutlery with handles of metal are classified SIC 3914: Silverware, Plated Ware, and Stainless Steel Ware; those manufacturing electric razors, knives, or scissors are classified in SIC 3634: Electric Housewares and Fans; those manufacturing hair clippers for human use are classified in SIC 3999: Manufacturing Industries, Not Elsewhere Classified; those manufacturing them for animal use in SIC 3523: Farm Machinery and Equipment; and those manufacturing power hedge shears and trimmers are classified in SIC 3524: Lawn and Garden Tractors and Home Lawn and Garden Equipment.

SIC 3423 Hand and Edge Tools, Except Machine Tools and Handsaws - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

Firms in this industry manufacture simple, edged hand-tools such as files, axes, chisels, prying bars, rulers, soldering irons, tongs, rakes, and cutters for metalworking, woodworking, and general maintenance. Saws and saw blades are discussed in SIC 3425: Saw Blades and Handsaws, while metal-cutting dies and power-driven hand tools, attachments, and accessories appear under the major group for industrial and commercial machinery and computer equipment.

SIC 3425 Saw Blades and Handsaws - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing handsaws and saw blades for hand-and power-driven saws. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing power driven sawing machines are classified in the major group for industrial and commercial machinery and computer equipment.

SIC 3429 Hardware, Not Elsewhere Classified - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing miscellaneous metal products usually termed hardware, not elsewhere classified. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing nuts and bolts are classified in SIC 3452: Bolts, Nuts, Screws, Rivets, and Washers; those manufacturing nails and spikes are classified in the major group for primary metal industries; those manufacturing cutlery are classified in SIC 3421: Cutlery; those manufacturing hand tools are classified in SIC 3423: Hand and Edge Tools, Except Machine Tools and Handsaws; and those manufacturing pole line and transmission hardware are classified in industry group SIC 3640: Electric Lighting and Wiring Equipment.

SIC 3431 Enameled Iron and Metal Sanitary Ware - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing enameled iron, cast iron, or pressed metal sanitary wares, such as bathtubs, sinks, toilets, and other bathroom and household plumbing fixtures. Nonmetallic plumbing products are listed in SIC 3088: Plastic Plumbing Fixtures, SIC 3261: Vitreous Sanitary Ware, and SIC 3469: Porcelain Enameled Kitchen, Household, and Hospital Ware.

SIC 3432 Plumbing Fixtures and Fittings - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

Companies that produce metal plumbing fixtures and parts make up the plumbing fixture and fittings industry. This classification also encompasses establishments engaged in the assembly of plastic components into fixtures and fittings.

SIC 3433 Heating Equipment, Except Electric and Warm Air Furnaces - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing heating equipment, except electric and warm air furnaces, including gas, oil, and stoker coal-fired equipment for the automatic utilization of gaseous, liquid, and solid fuels. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing warm air furnaces are classified in SIC 3585: Air-Conditioning and Warm Air Heating Equipment and Commercial and Industrial Refrigeration Equipment; cooking stoves and ranges are classified in SIC 3631: Household Cooking Equipment; boiler shops primarily engaged in the production of industrial, power, and marine boilers are classified in SIC 3443: Fabricated Plate Work (Boiler Shops); and those manufacturing industrial process furnaces and ovens are classified in SIC 3567: Industrial Process Furnaces and Ovens.

SIC 3441 Fabricated Structural Metal - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This classification includes establishments primarily engaged in fabricating iron and steel or other metal for structural purposes, such as bridges, buildings, and sections for ships, boats, and barges. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing metal doors, sash, frames, molding, and trim are classified in SIC 3442: Metal Doors, Sash, Frames, Molding, and Trim; and establishments doing fabrication work at the site of construction are classified in the Construction industries.

SIC 3442 Metal Doors, Sash, Frames, Molding, and Trim - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

Companies in this industry are engaged primarily in manufacturing ferrous and nonferrous metal doors, sash, window and door frames and screens, molding, and trim. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing metal covered wood doors, windows, sash, door frames, molding, and trim are classified in SIC 2431: Millwork.

SIC 3443 Fabricated Plate Work—Boiler Shops - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This classification includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing power and marine boilers, pressure and nonpressure tanks, processing and storage vessels, heat exchangers, and weldments and similar products; these are made by cutting, forming, and joining metal plates, shapes, bars, sheets, pipe mill products, and tubing to custom or standard design for factory or field assembly. Excluded from this category are establishments primarily involved in manufacturing warm air heating furnaces, which are classified in SIC 3585: Air Conditioning and Warm Air Heating Equipment and Commercial and Industrial Refrigeration Equipment.

SIC 3444 Sheet Metal Work - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This industry encompasses companies primarily engaged in manufacturing sheet metal work for buildings (not including fabrication work done by construction contractors at the place of construction) as well as stovepipes, light tanks, and other products of sheet metal.

SIC 3446 Architectural and Ornamental Metal Work - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing architectural and ornamental metal work, such as stairs and staircases, open steel flooring (grating), fire escapes, grilles, railings, and fences and gates, except those made from wire. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing fences and gates from purchased wire are classified in SIC 3496: Miscellaneous Fabricated Wire Products; those manufacturing prefabricated metal buildings and parts are classified in SIC 3448: Prefabricated Metal Buildings and Components; and those manufacturing miscellaneous metal work are classified in SIC 3449: Miscellaneous Structural Metal Work.

SIC 3448 Prefabricated Metal Buildings and Components - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing portable and other prefabricated metal buildings and parts and prefabricated exterior metal panels.

SIC 3449 Miscellaneous Structural Metal Work - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing miscellaneous structural metal work, such as metal plaster bases, fabricated bar joists, and concrete reinforcing bars. Also included in this industry are establishments primarily engaged in custom roll-forming of metal.

SIC 3451 Screw Machine Products - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing automatic or hand screw machine products from rod, bar, or tube stock of metal, fiber, plastics, or other material. The products of this industry consist of a wide variety of unassembled parts and are usually manufactured on a job or order basis.

SIC 3452 Bolts, Nuts, Screws, Rivets, and Washers - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing metal bolts, nuts, screws, rivets, washers, formed and threaded wire goods, and special industrial fasteners. Rolling mills engaged in manufacturing similar products are classified in the major group for primary metal industries (33); establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing screw machine products are classified in SIC 3451: Screw Machine Products; and those manufacturing plastic fasteners are classified in SIC 3089: Plastics Products, Not Elsewhere Classified.

SIC 3462 Iron and Steel Forgings - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This industry includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing iron and steel forgings, with or without the use of dies. These establishments generally operate on a job or order basis, manufacturing forgings for sale to others or for interplant transfer.

SIC 3463 Nonferrous Forgings - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing nonferrous forgings, with or without the use of dies. These establishments generally operate on a job or order basis, manufacturing forgings for sale to others or for interplant transfer.

SIC 3465 Automotive Stampings - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category includes establishments that primarily manufacture metal auto parts, such as body panels, hubs, and trim pieces, usually for sale to other manufacturers or for use in assembly facilities located off-site. Those firms that utilize the stamped products in the manufacture of end products in the same establishment are categorized by that end-product.

SIC 3466 Crowns and Closures - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing metal crowns and closures, including both bottle caps and jar crowns and tops.

SIC 3469 Metal Stampings, Not Elsewhere Classified - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing metal stampings and spun products, not elsewhere classified, including porcelain enameled products. Products of this industry include household appliance housings and parts, cooking and kitchen utensils, and other non-automotive job stampings.

SIC 3471 Electroplating, Plating, Polishing, Anodizing, and Coloring - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category includes establishments primarily engaged in all types of electroplating, plating, anodizing, coloring, and finishing of metals and formed products for the trade. Also included in this industry are establishments that perform these types of activities on their own account, on purchased metals or formed products.

SIC 3479 Coating, Engraving, and Allied Services, Not Elsewhere Classified - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This industry includes establishments primarily engaged in performing the following types of services on metals, for the trade: (1) enameling, lacquering, and varnishing metal products; (2) hot dip galvanizing of mill sheets, plates and bars, castings, and formed products fabricated of iron and steel; hot dip coating such items with aluminum, lead, or zinc; retinning cans and utensils;(3) engraving, chasing, and etching jewelry, silverware, notarial, and other seals, and other metal products for purposes other than printing; and (4) other metal services, not elsewhere classified. Also included in this industry are establishments that perform these types of activities on their own account on purchased metals or formed products.

SIC 3482 Small Arms Ammunition - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This industry includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing ammunition for small arms having a bore of 30 millimeters (1.18 inches) or less. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing ammunition, except for small arms, are classified in SIC 3483: Ammunition, Except for Small Arms; those manufacturing blasting and detonating caps and safety fuses are classified in SIC 2892: Explosives; and those manufacturing fireworks are classified in SIC 2899: Chemicals and Chemical Preparations, Not Elsewhere Classified.

SIC 3483 Ammunition, Except for Small Arms - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing ammunition, not elsewhere classified, or in loading and assembling ammunition of more than 30 millimeters (or more than 1.18 inches), including component parts. This industry also includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing bombs, mines, torpedoes, grenades, depth charges, chemical warfare projectiles, and their component parts.

SIC 3484 Small Arms - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing small firearms or parts for small firearms. Small firearms, defined as having a bore of 30 millimeters (mm) or less, include pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, and submachine guns.

SIC 3489 Ordnance and Accessories, Not Elsewhere Classified - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing ordnance and accessories, not elsewhere classified, such as naval, aircraft, anti-aircraft, tank, coast, and field artillery having a bore more than 30 mm. (or more than 1.18 inch), and components.

SIC 3491 Industrial Valves - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing industrial valves. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing fluid power valves are classified in SIC 3492: Fluid Power Valves and Hose Fittings; those manufacturing plumbing fixture fittings and trim are classified in SIC 3432: Plumbing Fixture Fittings and Trim; and those manufacturing plumbing and heating valves are classified in SIC 3494: Valves and Pipe Fittings, Not Elsewhere Classified.

SIC 3492 Fluid Power Valves and Hose Fittings - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing hydraulic and pneumatic valves, hose and tube fittings, and hose assemblies for fluid power systems. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing fluid power cylinders are classified in SIC 3593: Fluid Power Cylinders and Actuators; those manufacturing fluid power pumps are classified in SIC 3594: Fluid Power Pumps and Motors; and those manufacturing hydraulic intake and exhaust motor vehicle valves are classified in SIC 3592: Carburetors, Pistons, Piston Rings, and Valves.

SIC 3493 Steel Springs, Except Wire - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing leaf springs, hot wound springs, and coiled flat springs. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing wire springs are classified in SIC 3495: Wire Springs.

SIC 3494 Valves and Pipe Fittings, Not Elsewhere Classified - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing metal valves and pipe fittings, not elsewhere classified, such as plumbing and heating valves, and pipe fittings, flanges, and unions, except from purchased pipes. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing plastic pipe fittings are classified in SIC 3089: Plastics Products, Not Elsewhere Classified; those manufacturing plumbing fixture fittings and trim are classified in SIC 3432: Plumbing Fixture Fittings and Trim; and those manufacturing fittings and couplings for garden hoses are classified in SIC 3429: Hardware, Not Elsewhere Classified.

SIC 3495 Wire Springs - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This industry consists of establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing wire springs from purchased wire. Establishments primarily engaged in assembling wire bedsprings or seats are classified in the Furniture and Fixtures industries.

SIC 3496 Miscellaneous Fabricated Wire Products - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing miscellaneous fabricated wire products from purchased wire, such as noninsulated wire rope and cable, fencing, screening, netting, paper machine wire cloth, hangers, paper clips, kitchenware, and wire carts. Rolling mills engaged in manufacturing wire products are classified in the Primary Metal Industries.

SIC 3497 Metal Foil and Leaf - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing gold, silver, tin, and other metal foil (including converted metal foil) and leaf. Also included are establishments primarily engaged in converting metal foil (including aluminum) into wrappers, cookware, dinnerware, and containers, except bags and liners.

SIC 3498 Fabricated Pipe and Pipe Fittings - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

This industry covers establishments primarily engaged in fabricating pipes and pipe fittings from purchased metal pipe by processes such as cutting, threading, and bending. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing cast iron pipe and fittings, including cast and forged pipe fittings that have been machined and threaded, are classified in SIC 3321: Gray and Ductile Iron Foundries; those manufacturing welded and heavy riveted pipe and seamless steel pipe are classified in SIC 3317: Steel Pipe and Tubes; and those manufacturing products such as banisters, railings, and guards from pipe are classified in SIC 3446: Architecture and Ornamental Metal Work.

SIC 3499 Fabricated Metal Products, Not Elsewhere Classified - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History

The fabricated metal products not elsewhere classified industry encompasses establishments that manufacture miscellaneous metal goods for both commercial and residential applications. Examples of industry output include metal ladders, ironing boards, steel safes, toilet fixtures, trophies, lawnmower wheels, chairs, barricades, ammunition boxes, and automobile seat frames.