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NAICS 2022

321

Wood Product Manufacturing

Analysis

NAICS 321 is the 2022 subsector for wood product manufacturing. Census lists 405 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 13,900 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 432,255 people at an average annual payroll of $57,421 per employee (28th percentile of national industries). 33% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

Across its national industries Census lists 405 index entries; typical ones are beams, wood, made from logs or bolts, bridge and trestle parts, wood, treating, hardwood plywood composites manufacturing and panels, softwood plywood, manufacturing.

Its goods appear in 499 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 4412 (plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood), 4407 (wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether…) and 4409 (wood (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

It splits into 3 more detailed codes. The largest by establishments is 3219 (Other Wood Product Manufacturing) with 9,391.

Its more detailed codes are 3211 Sawmills and Wood Preservation (3,053 establishments), 3212 Veneer, Plywood, and Engineered Wood Product Manufacturing (1,456 establishments) and 3219 Other Wood Product Manufacturing (9,391 establishments).

Official definition

Establishments in the Wood Product Manufacturing subsector manufacture wood products, such as lumber, plywood, veneers, wood containers, wood flooring, wood trusses, manufactured homes (i.e., mobile homes), and prefabricated wood buildings. The production processes of the Wood Product Manufacturing subsector include sawing, planing, shaping, laminating, and assembling wood products starting from logs that are cut into bolts, or lumber that then may be further cut, or shaped by lathes or other shaping tools. The lumber or other transformed wood shapes may also be subsequently planed or smoothed, and assembled into finished products, such as wood containers. The Wood Product Manufacturing subsector includes establishments that make wood products from logs and bolts that are sawed and shaped, and establishments that purchase sawed lumber and make wood products. With the exception of sawmills and wood preservation establishments, the establishments are grouped into industries mainly based on the specific products manufactured.

Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.

Index entries (405)

  • Beams, wood, made from logs or bolts
  • Bridge and trestle parts, wood, treating
  • Hardwood plywood composites manufacturing
  • Panels, softwood plywood, manufacturing
  • Arches, glue laminated or pre-engineered wood, manufacturing
  • Board, bagasse, manufacturing
  • Door frames and sash, wood and covered wood, manufacturing
  • Blanks, wood (e.g., bowling pins, handles, textile machinery accessories), manufacturing
  • Bamboo flooring manufacturing
  • Ammunition boxes, wood, manufacturing
  • Buildings, mobile, commercial use, manufacturing
  • Buildings, prefabricated, wood, manufacturing
  • Applicators, wood, manufacturing