Analysis
NAICS 324122 is the 2022 national industry for asphalt shingle and coating materials manufacturing, part of 32412 (Asphalt Paving, Roofing, and Saturated Materials Manufacturing). Census lists 19 example activities under it in the official index.
County Business Patterns counts 183 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 11,287 people at an average annual payroll of $89,048 per employee (77th percentile of national industries). 16% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.
By establishments it ranks 2nd of the 2 codes at this level within Asphalt Paving, Roofing, and Saturated Materials Manufacturing, with 11.6% of them.
Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 11% and employment rose 5%. 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.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include asphalt roofing cements made from purchased asphaltic…, asphalt roofing coatings made from purchased asphaltic…, asphalt saturated boards made from purchased asphaltic… and asphalt saturated mats and felts made from purchased…, among 19 in all.
Its goods appear in 3 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 6807 (articles of asphalt or of similar material (for example…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
Official definition
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) saturating purchased mats and felts with asphalt or tar from purchased asphaltic materials and (2) manufacturing asphalt and tar and roofing cements and coatings from purchased asphaltic materials.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
| The business mainly does | Use instead |
|---|---|
| Refining crude petroleum and saturating purchased mats and felts with asphalt or tar into rolls and sheets and/or refining crude petroleum and manufacturing asphalt and tar roofing cements and coatings | 324110 Petroleum Refineries |
| Manufacturing paper mats and felts and saturating them with asphalt or tar into rolls and sheets | 322120 Paper Mills |
Index entries (19)
- Asphalt roofing cements made from purchased asphaltic materials
- Asphalt roofing coatings made from purchased asphaltic materials
- Asphalt saturated boards made from purchased asphaltic materials
- Asphalt saturated mats and felts made from purchased asphaltic materials and paper
- Asphalt shingles made from purchased asphaltic materials
- Boards, asphalt saturated, made from purchased asphaltic materials
- Cements, asphalt roofing, made from purchased asphaltic materials
- Coating compounds, tar, made from purchased asphaltic materials
- Pitch, roofing, made from purchased asphaltic materials
- Roofing cements, asphalt, made from purchased asphaltic materials
- Roofing coatings made from purchased asphaltic materials
- Roofing felts made from purchased asphaltic materials
- Saturated felts made from purchased paper
- Sheathing, asphalt saturated, made from refined petroleum
- Shingles made from purchased asphaltic materials
- Siding made from purchased asphaltic materials
- Tar paper made from purchased asphaltic materials and paper
- Tar paper, building and roofing, made from purchased paper
- Tar roofing cements and coatings made from purchased asphaltic materials