325520

Analysis

NAICS 325520 is the 2022 national industry for adhesive manufacturing, part of 32552 (Adhesive Manufacturing). Census lists 16 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 539 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 31,470 people at an average annual payroll of $79,729 per employee (68th percentile of national industries). 21% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base)…, caulking compounds (except gypsum base) manufacturing, cement, rubber, manufacturing and construction adhesives (except asphalt, gypsum base)…, among 16 in all.

Its goods appear in 15 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 3214 (glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking…), 3506 (prepared glues and other prepared adhesives, not elsewhere…) and 3503 (). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

For example, manufacturing asphalt and tar roofing cements from purchased asphaltic materials are classified in 324122 (Asphalt Shingle and Coating Materials Manufacturing) instead.

Census lists 2 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 324122 and 327420. 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.