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Analysis

NAICS 327211 is the 2022 national industry for flat glass manufacturing, part of 32721 (Glass and Glass Product Manufacturing). Census lists 5 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 135 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 12,248 people at an average annual payroll of $67,196 per employee (47th percentile of national industries). 30% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing, glass, plate, made in glass making plants, insulating glass, sealed units, made in glass making plants and laminated glass made in glass making plants, among 5 in all.

Its goods appear in 27 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 7005 (float glass and surface ground or polished glass, in…), 7003 (cast glass and rolled glass, in sheets or profiles, whether…) and 7004 (drawn glass and blown glass, in sheets, whether or not…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

For example, manufacturing laminated glass from purchased flat glass are classified in 327215 (Glass Product Manufacturing Made of Purchased Glass) instead.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 5% and employment rose 3%. 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.