SIC 3911 Jewelry, Precious Metal - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category encompasses those establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing jewelry and other articles worn on or carried about the person, made of precious metals such as platinum, gold, and silver (including base metals clad or rolled with precious metals), with or without stones. In addition to personal jewelry, products of this industry include cigarette cases and lighters, vanity cases and compacts; trimmings for umbrellas and canes; and jewel settings and mountings.
SIC 3914 Silverware, Plated Ware, and Stainless Steel Ware - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category includes businesses whose primary activities consist of manufacturing flatware (including knives, forks, and spoons), hollowware, ecclesiastical ware, trophies, trays, and related products made of sterling silver; metal plated with silver, gold, or other metal; nickel silver; pewter; or stainless steel. The category also includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing table flatware with blades and handles of metal.
SIC 3915 Jewelers' Findings and Materials, and Lapidary Work - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing unassembled jewelry parts and stock jewelers' materials such as wire, tubing, and sheeting; and establishments of lapidaries primarily engaged in cutting, slabbing, tumbling, carving, engraving, polishing, or faceting stones from natural or manmade precious or semiprecious gem raw materials, either for sale or on a contract basis for the trade; in recutting, repolishing, and setting gem stones; or in drilling, cutting, or otherwise preparing jewels for instruments, dies, watches, chronometers, and other industrial uses. This industry includes the drilling, sawing, and peeling of real or cultured pearls.
SIC 3931 Musical Instruments - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing musical instruments and parts and accessories for musical instruments. The primary products in this category are pianos, with or without player attachments, and organs.
SIC 3942 Dolls and Stuffed Toys - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing dolls, doll parts, and doll clothing, except doll wigs. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing stuffed toys are also included in this industry.
SIC 3944 Games, Toys, and Children's Vehicles - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This entry consists of establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing games and game sets for adults and children and mechanical and non-mechanical toys. Important industry products include games; toy furniture; doll carriages and carts; construction sets; mechanical trains; toy guns and rifles; baby carriages and strollers; children's tricycles, coaster wagons, play cars, sleds, and other children's outdoor wheel goods and vehicles, except bicycles.
SIC 3949 Sporting and Athletic Goods, Not Elsewhere Classified - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing sporting and athletic goods not elsewhere classified, such as fishing tackle; golf and tennis goods; baseball, football, basketball, and boxing equipment; roller skates and ice skates; gymnasium and playground equipment; billiard and pool tables; and bowling alleys and equipment. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing athletic apparel are classified in the major group for apparel and other finished products made from fabrics and similar materials; those manufacturing athletic footwear are classified in SIC 3021: Rubber and Plastics Footwear and SIC 3149: Footwear, Except Rubber, Not Elsewhere Classified; those manufacturing small arms ammunition are classified in SIC 3482: Small Arms Ammunition; and those manufacturing small arms are classified in SIC 3484: Small Arms.
SIC 3951 Pens, Mechanical Pencils and Parts - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry contains establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing pens (including ballpoint pens), refill cartridges, mechanical pencils, fine and broad tipped markers, and parts.
SIC 3952 Lead Pencils, Crayons and Artists' Materials - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing lead pencils, pencil leads, and crayons, and materials and equipment for artwork, such as airbrushes, drawing tables and boards, palettes, sketch boxes, pantographs, artists colors and waxes, pyrography goods, drawing inks, and drafting materials. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing mechanical pencils are classified in SIC 3951: Pens, Mechanical Pencils, and Parts, and those manufacturing drafting instruments are classified in SIC 3829: Measuring and Controlling Devices, Not Elsewhere Classified.
SIC 3953 Marking Devices - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing stencils for use in painting or marking; or the production of steel letters and figures, rubber and metal hand-stamps, dies, and seals. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing felt tip markers are covered in SIC 3951: Pens, Mechanical Pencils, and Parts.
SIC 3955 Carbon Paper and Inked Ribbons - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry contains establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing carbon paper, spirit or gelatin process and other stencil paper, and inked or carbon ribbons for business machines.
SIC 3961 Costume Jewelry and Costume Novelties, Except Precious Metals - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category encompasses businesses primarily engaged in manufacturing costume jewelry, costume novelties, and ornaments made of all materials, except precious metal, precious or semiprecious stones, and rolled gold paste and gold-filled materials. The products manufactured within this category include such items as necklaces, rings, artificial pearls, compacts, cuff links, and rosaries.
SIC 3965 Fasteners, Buttons, Needles, and Pins - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry includes companies that make notions, such as slide and snap fasteners and zippers, machine and hand needles, pins, hooks and eyes, buckles, buttons, button parts, and button blanks. Companies that make these items from precious metals or from precious or semiprecious stones are classified in SIC 3911: Jewelry, Precious Metals.
SIC 3991 Brooms and Brushes - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing household, industrial, and street sweeping brooms; and brushes, such as paintbrushes, toothbrushes, toilet brushes, and household and industrial brushes.
SIC 3993 Signs and Advertising Specialties - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing electrical, mechanical, cutout, or plate signs and advertising displays, including neon signs and advertising specialties. Sign painting shops doing business on a custom basis are classified in SIC 7389: Business Services, Not Elsewhere Classified.
SIC 3995 Burial Caskets - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry includes companies primarily engaged in manufacturing burial caskets, vaults, and cases, including shipping cases, of wood, metal, fiberglass, or other material except concrete.
SIC 3996 Linoleum, Asphalted-Felt-Base, and other Hard Surface Floor Coverings, Not Elsewhere Classified - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing linoleum, asphalted-felt-base, and other hard surface floor coverings, not elsewhere classified. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing rubber floor coverings are classified in SIC 3069: Fabricated Rubber Products, Not Elsewhere Classified, and those manufacturing cork floor and wall tile are classified in SIC 2499: Wood Products, Not Elsewhere Classified.
SIC 3999 Manufacturing Industries, Not Elsewhere Classified - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing miscellaneous fabricated products, including beauty shop and barber shop equipment; hair work; tobacco pipes and cigarette holders; coin-operated amusement machines; matches; candles; lamp shades; feathers; artificial trees and flowers made from all materials, except glass; dressed and dyed furs; umbrellas, parasols, and canes; and other articles, not elsewhere classified.