325211

Analysis

NAICS 325211 is the 2022 national industry for plastics material and resin manufacturing, part of 32521 (Resin and Synthetic Rubber Manufacturing). Census lists 83 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 1,285 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 88,827 people at an average annual payroll of $93,117 per employee (80th percentile of national industries). 18% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.

By establishments it ranks 1st of the 2 codes at this level within Resin and Synthetic Rubber Manufacturing, with 89.4% of them.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 11% 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.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include acetal resins manufacturing, acrylic resins manufacturing, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) resins manufacturing and alkyd resins manufacturing, among 83 in all.

Its goods appear in 89 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 3907 (polyacetals, other polyethers and epoxide resins, in…), 3901 (polymers of ethylene, in primary forms) and 3904 (polymers of vinyl chloride or of other halogenated olefins…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.