32611

Analysis

NAICS 32611 is the 2022 NAICS industry for plastics packaging materials and unlaminated film and sheet manufacturing, part of 3261 (Plastics Product Manufacturing). Census lists 20 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 1,220 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 110,199 people at an average annual payroll of $68,612 per employee (50th percentile of national industries). 15% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.

Across its national industries Census lists 20 index entries; typical ones are bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing, film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing and acrylic film and unlaminated sheet (except packaging)….

Its goods appear in 65 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 3920 (other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics…), 3921 (other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics) and 3923 (articles for the conveyance or packing of goods, of…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

It splits into 3 more detailed codes. The largest by establishments is 326112 (Plastics Packaging Film and Sheet (including Laminated) Manufacturing) with 426.

Its more detailed codes are 326111 Plastics Bag and Pouch Manufacturing (376 establishments), 326112 Plastics Packaging Film and Sheet (including Laminated) Manufacturing (426 establishments) and 326113 Unlaminated Plastics Film and Sheet (except Packaging) Manufacturing (418 establishments).