Analysis
NAICS 322120 is the 2022 national industry for paper mills, part of 32212 (Paper Mills). Census lists 51 example activities under it in the official index.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include absorbent paper stock manufacturing, asphalt paper made in paper mills, bond paper made in paper mills and book paper, coated, made in paper mills, among 51 in all.
Census lists 4 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 322110, 322130, 3222 and 325992. Businesses that do several things are classified by their primary activity, the one that generates the most value, so check those boundaries before settling on this code.
For example, manufacturing pulp without manufacturing paper are classified in 322110 (Pulp Mills) instead.
County Business Patterns publishes no national count for it, either because the code is out of the survey's scope or because the figures are suppressed to protect individual businesses.
Official definition
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing paper from pulp. These establishments may manufacture or purchase pulp. In addition, the establishments may convert the paper they make. The activity of making paper classifies an establishment into this industry regardless of the output.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
| The business mainly does | Use instead |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing pulp without manufacturing paper | 322110 Pulp Mills |
| Manufacturing paperboard | 322130 Paperboard Mills |
| Converting paper without manufacturing paper | 3222 Converted Paper Product Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing photographic sensitized paper from purchased paper | 325992 Photographic Film, Paper, Plate, Chemical, and Copy Toner Manufacturing |
Index entries (51)
- Absorbent paper stock manufacturing
- Asphalt paper made in paper mills
- Bond paper made in paper mills
- Book paper, coated, made in paper mills
- Bristols paper stock manufacturing
- Building paper stock manufacturing
- Cigarette paper made in paper mills
- Construction paper, school and art, made in paper mills
- Cotton fiber paper stock manufacturing
- Diapers, disposable, made in paper mills
- Facial tissues made in paper mills
- Felts, asphalt, made in paper mills
- Glassine wrapping paper made in paper mills
- Groundwood paper products (e.g., publication and printing paper, tablet stock, wallpaper base) made in newsprint mills
- Groundwood paper, coated, laminated, or treated in paper mills
- Groundwood paper, coated, made in paper mills
- Groundwood paper, newsprint, made in paper mills
- Kraft paper stock manufacturing
- Looseleaf fillers and paper made in paper mills
- Napkins, table, made in paper mills
- Newsprint mills
- Newsprint paper, manufacturing
- Office paper (e.g., computer printer, photocopy, plain paper) made in paper mills
- Paper manufacturing
- Paper mills
- Paper mills, newsprint
- Paper mills, uncoated groundwood
- Paper products made in paper mills
- Paper stock for conversion into paper products (e.g., bag and sack stock, envelope stock, tissue stock, wallpaper stock) manufacturing
- Paper towels made in paper mills
- Paper, asphalt, made in paper mills
- Paper, coated, laminated or treated, made in paper mills
- Paper, newsprint and uncoated groundwood, manufacturing
- Pulp and newsprint combined manufacturing
- Pulp and paper combined manufacturing
- Pulp mills and groundwood paper, uncoated and untreated, manufacturing
- Pulp mills producing newsprint paper
- Pulp mills producing paper
- Sanitary napkins and tampons made in paper mills
- Sanitary paper products made in paper mills