326121

Analysis

NAICS 326121 is the 2022 national industry for unlaminated plastics profile shape manufacturing, part of 32612 (Plastics Pipe, Pipe Fitting, and Unlaminated Profile Shape Manufacturing). Census lists 5 example activities under it in the official index.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 13% 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.

By establishments it ranks 2nd of the 2 codes at this level within Plastics Pipe, Pipe Fitting, and Unlaminated Profile Shape Manufacturing, with 40.8% of them.

County Business Patterns counts 335 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 18,949 people at an average annual payroll of $65,802 per employee (45th percentile of national industries). 15% 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 casings, sausage, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing, profile shapes (e.g., rod, tube), nonrigid plastics…, rod, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing and sausage casings, plastics, manufacturing, among 5 in all.

Its goods appear in 8 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 3916 (monofilament of which any cross-sectional dimension exceeds…) and 3917 (tubes, pipes and hoses and fittings therefor (for example…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.