SIC D—Manufacturing
Division · Standard Industrial Classification (1987)
Where D sits
- D Manufacturing
Contains 20 narrower codes
- 20 Food and Kindred Products
- 21 Tobacco Products
- 22 Textile Mill Products
- 23 Apparel and Other Finished Products Made From Fabrics and Similar Materials
- 24 Lumber and Wood Products, Except Furniture
- 25 Furniture and Fixtures
- 26 Paper and Allied Products
- 27 Printing, Publishing, and Allied Industries
- 28 Chemicals and Allied Products
- 29 Petroleum Refining and Related Industries
- 30 Rubber and Miscellaneous Plastics Products
- 31 Leather and Leather Products
- 32 Stone, Clay, Glass, and Concrete Products
- 33 Primary Metal Industries
- 34 Fabricated Metal Products, Except Machinery and Transportation Equipment
- 35 Industrial and Commercial Machinery and Computer Equipment
- 36 Electronic and Other Electrical Equipment and Components, Except Computer Equipment
- 37 Transportation Equipment
- 38 Measuring, Analyzing, and Controlling Instruments; Photographic, Medical and Optical Goods; Watches and Clocks
- 39 Miscellaneous Manufacturing Industries
Description
The manufacturing division includes establishments engaged in the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substances into new products. These establishments are usually described as plants, factories, or mills and characteristically use power driven machines and materials handling equipment. Establishments engaged in assembling component parts of manufactured products are also considered manufacturing if the new product is neither a structure nor other fixed improvement. Also included is the blending of materials, such as lubricating oils, plastics resins, or liquors.
The materials processed by manufacturing establishments include products of agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, and quarrying as well as products of other manufacturing establishments. The new product of a manufacturing establishment may be finished in the sense that it is ready for utilization or consumption, or it may be semifinished to become a raw material for an establishment engaged in further manufacturing. For example, the product of the copper smelter is the raw material used in electrolytic refineries; refined copper is the raw material used by copper wire mills; and copper wire is the raw material used by certain electrical equipment manufacturers.
The materials used by manufacturing establishments may be purchased directly from producers, obtained through customary trade channels, or secured without recourse to the market by transferring the product from one establishment to another which is under the same ownership. Manufacturing production is usually carried on for the wholesale market, for interplant transfer, or to order for industrial users, rather than for direct sale to the domestic consumer.
There are numerous borderline cases between manufacturing and other divisions of the classification system. Specific instances will be found in the descriptions of the individual industries. The following activities, although not always considered as manufacturing, are so classified:
Milk bottling and pasteurizing; Fresh fish packaging (oyster shucking, fish filleting); Apparel jobbing (assigning of materials to contract factories or shops for fabrication or other contract operations) as well as contracting on materials owned by others; Publishing; Ready-mixed concrete production; Leather converting; Logging; Wood preserving; Various service industries to the manufacturing trade, such as typesetting, engraving, plate printing, and preparing electrotyping and stereotype plates, but not blueprinting or photocopying services; Electroplating, plating, metal heat treating, and polishing for the trade; Lapidary work for the trade; Fabricating of signs and advertising displays.