325120

Analysis

NAICS 325120 is the 2022 national industry for industrial gas manufacturing, part of 32512 (Industrial Gas Manufacturing). Census lists 25 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 546 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 13,842 people at an average annual payroll of $105,253 per employee (86th percentile of national industries). 27% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 11% and employment rose 4%. 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 acetylene manufacturing, argon manufacturing, biogases, industrial (i.e., compressed, liquefied, solid)… and carbon dioxide manufacturing, among 25 in all.

Its goods appear in 16 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 2903 (halogenated derivatives of hydrocarbons), 2804 (hydrogen, rare gases and other nonmetals) and 2811 (other inorganic acids and other inorganic oxygen compounds…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

For example, manufacturing chlorine gas are classified in 325180 (Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing) instead.