322110

Analysis

NAICS 322110 is the 2022 national industry for pulp mills, part of 32211 (Pulp Mills). Census lists 7 example activities under it in the official index.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 24% and employment rose 9%. The 2018 count used NAICS 2017, so part of a large move can come from codes being redefined rather than from businesses opening or closing.

County Business Patterns counts 35 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 9,609 people at an average annual payroll of $106,804 per employee (87th percentile of national industries). 14% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include deinking plants, deinking recovered paper, groundwood pulp manufacturing and pulp manufacturing (i.e., chemical, mechanical, or…, among 7 in all.

Its goods appear in 22 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 4703 (chemical woodpulp, soda or sulfate, other than dissolving…), 4706 (pulps of fibers derived from recovered (waste and scrap)…) and 4704 (chemical woodpulp, sulfite, other than dissolving grades). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

For example, manufacturing both pulp and paper are classified in 322120 (Paper Mills) instead.