Analysis
NAICS 325212 is the 2022 national industry for synthetic rubber manufacturing, part of 32521 (Resin and Synthetic Rubber Manufacturing). Census lists 41 example activities under it in the official index.
County Business Patterns counts 153 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 11,337 people at an average annual payroll of $94,942 per employee (81st percentile of national industries). 18% 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 Resin and Synthetic Rubber Manufacturing, with 10.6% of them.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include acrylate rubber manufacturing, acrylate-butadiene rubber manufacturing, acrylic rubber manufacturing and butadiene copolymers containing more than 50 percent…, among 41 in all.
Its goods appear in 32 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 4002 (synthetic rubber and factice derived from oils, in primary…), 3913 (natural polymers (for example, alginic acid) and modified…) 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.
For example, processing natural, synthetic, or reclaimed rubber into intermediate or final products (except adhesives) are classified in 3262 (Rubber Product Manufacturing) instead.
Official definition
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing synthetic rubber.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
Index entries (41)
- Acrylate rubber manufacturing
- Acrylate-butadiene rubber manufacturing
- Acrylic rubber manufacturing
- Butadiene copolymers containing more than 50 percent butadiene manufacturing
- Butadiene rubber (i.e., polybutadiene) manufacturing
- Butyl rubber manufacturing
- Chlorinated rubber, synthetic, manufacturing
- Chloroprene rubber manufacturing
- Chlorosulfonated polyethylenes manufacturing
- Cyclo rubber, synthetic, manufacturing
- Elastomers, synthetic rubber, manufacturing
- Epichlorohydrin elastomers manufacturing
- Ethylene-propylene rubber manufacturing
- Ethylene-propylene-nonconjugated diene (EPDM) rubber manufacturing
- Fluoro rubbers manufacturing
- Fluorocarbon derivative rubbers manufacturing
- Isobutylene-isoprene rubber manufacturing
- Isocyanate rubber manufacturing
- Latex rubber, synthetic, manufacturing
- Neoprene manufacturing
- Nitrile rubber manufacturing
- Nitrile-butadiene rubber manufacturing
- Nitrile-chloroprene rubbers manufacturing
- N-type rubber manufacturing
- Polyethylene rubber manufacturing
- Polyisobutylene rubber manufacturing
- Polyisobutylene-isoprene rubber manufacturing
- Polymethylene rubber manufacturing
- Polysulfide rubber manufacturing
- Rubber, synthetic, manufacturing
- Silicone rubber manufacturing
- Stereo rubber manufacturing
- S-type rubber manufacturing
- Styrene-butadiene rubber containing less than 50 percent styrene manufacturing
- Styrene-chloroprene rubber manufacturing
- Styrene-isoprene rubber manufacturing
- Synthetic rubber (i.e., vulcanizable elastomers) manufacturing
- Thermosetting vulcanizable elastomers manufacturing
- Thiol rubber manufacturing
- Urethane rubber manufacturing