Analysis
NAICS 325130 is the 2022 national industry for synthetic dye and pigment manufacturing, part of 32513 (Synthetic Dye and Pigment Manufacturing). Census lists 62 example activities under it in the official index.
County Business Patterns counts 125 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 8,305 people at an average annual payroll of $91,530 per employee (79th percentile of national industries). 21% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.
Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 11% and employment fell 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.
Census lists 5 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 311942, 325199, 325992 and 325194. 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.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include acid dyes, synthetic organic, manufacturing, anthraquinone dyes manufacturing, antimony based pigments manufacturing and arsenic based pigments manufacturing, among 62 in all.
Its goods appear in 141 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 3204 (synthetic organic coloring matter, whether or not…), 3206 (other coloring matter; preparations as specified in note 3…) and 3205 (). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
Official definition
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing synthetic organic and inorganic dyes and pigments, such as lakes and toners (except electrostatic and photographic).
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
| The business mainly does | Use instead |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing natural food colorings | 311942 Spice and Extract Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing natural organic colorings for nonfood uses (except wood byproducts) | 325199 All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing electrostatic and photographic toners | 325992 Photographic Film, Paper, Plate, Chemical, and Copy Toner Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing wood byproducts used as dyeing materials | 325194 Cyclic Crude, Intermediate, and Gum and Wood Chemical Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing carbon, bone, and lamp black | 325180 Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing |
Index entries (62)
- Acid dyes, synthetic organic, manufacturing
- Anthraquinone dyes manufacturing
- Antimony based pigments manufacturing
- Arsenic based pigments manufacturing
- Azine dyes manufacturing
- Azo dyes manufacturing
- Barytes based pigments manufacturing
- Black pigments (except carbon black, bone black, lamp black) manufacturing
- Blanc fixe (i.e., barium sulfate, precipitated) manufacturing
- Ceramic colors manufacturing
- Chrome pigments (e.g., chrome green, chrome orange, chrome yellow) manufacturing
- Color pigments, inorganic (except bone black, carbon black, lamp black), manufacturing
- Color pigments, organic (except animal black, bone black), manufacturing
- Copper base pigments manufacturing
- Direct dyes manufacturing
- Disperse dyes manufacturing
- Dyes, inorganic, manufacturing
- Dyes, synthetic organic, manufacturing
- Eosin dyes manufacturing
- Ferric oxide pigments manufacturing
- Fluorescent dyes manufacturing
- Food coloring, synthetic, manufacturing
- Inorganic pigments (except bone black, carbon black, lamp black) manufacturing
- Iron based pigments manufacturing
- Lakes (i.e., organic pigments) manufacturing
- Lead based pigments manufacturing
- Lead pigments manufacturing
- Litharge manufacturing
- Lithopone manufacturing
- Metallic pigments, inorganic, manufacturing
- Methyl violet toners manufacturing
- Mineral colors and pigments manufacturing
- Mordant dyes manufacturing
- Nitroso dyes manufacturing
- Ocher pigments manufacturing
- Organic pigments, dyes, lakes, and toners manufacturing
- Pararosaniline dyes manufacturing
- Peacock blue lake manufacturing
- Pearl essence pigment, synthetic, manufacturing
- Persian orange lake manufacturing