NAICS 2022
332
Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing
Analysis
NAICS 332 is the 2022 subsector for fabricated metal product manufacturing. Census lists 948 example activities under it in the official index.
County Business Patterns counts 53,790 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 1,441,471 people at an average annual payroll of $67,129 per employee (47th percentile of national industries). 35% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.
Across its national industries Census lists 948 index entries; typical ones are cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished, aluminum forgings made from purchased metals, unfinished, custom roll forming metal products and powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order….
Its goods appear in 796 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 8481 (taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances, for pipes…), 8482 (ball or roller bearings, and parts thereof) and 7318 (screws, bolts, nuts, coach screws, screw hooks, rivets…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
It splits into 9 more detailed codes. The largest by establishments is 3327 (Machine Shops; Turned Product; and Screw, Nut, and Bolt Manufacturing) with 21,774.
Its more detailed codes are 3321 Forging and Stamping (1,937 establishments), 3322 Cutlery and Handtool Manufacturing (980 establishments), 3323 Architectural and Structural Metals Manufacturing (14,533 establishments), 3324 Boiler, Tank, and Shipping Container Manufacturing (1,337 establishments), 3325 Hardware Manufacturing (532 establishments) and 3326 Spring and Wire Product Manufacturing (1,051 establishments) and 3 more.
Official definition
Industries in the Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing subsector transform metal into intermediate or end products, other than machinery, computers and electronics, and metal furniture, or treat metals and metal formed products fabricated elsewhere. Important fabricated metal processes are forging, stamping, bending, forming, and machining, used to shape individual pieces of metal; and other processes, such as welding and assembling, used to join separate parts together. Establishments in this subsector may use one of these processes or a combination of these processes.
The NAICS structure for this subsector distinguishes the forging and stamping processes in a single industry. The remaining industries in the subsector group establishments based on similar combinations of processes used to make products.
The manufacturing performed in the Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing subsector begins with manufactured metal shapes. The establishments in this subsector further fabricate the purchased metal shapes into a product. For instance, the Spring and Wire Product Manufacturing industry starts with wire and fabricates such items.
Within the Manufacturing sector there are other establishments that make the same products made by this subsector; only these establishments begin production further back in the production process. These establishments have a more integrated operation. For instance, one establishment may manufacture steel, draw it into wire, and make wire products in the same establishment. Such operations are classified in the Primary Metal Manufacturing subsector.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Index entries (948)
- Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished
- Aluminum forgings made from purchased metals, unfinished
- Custom roll forming metal products
- Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis
- Bottle caps and tops, metal, stamping
- Barber's scissors, manufacturing
- Agricultural handtools (e.g., hay forks, hoes, rakes, spades), nonpowered, manufacturing
- Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing
- Barge sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing
- Airlocks, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing
- Baseboards, metal, manufacturing
- Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing
- Acoustical suspension systems, metal, manufacturing
- Aftercoolers (i.e., heat exchangers) manufacturing
- Absorbers, gas, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing
- Aerosol cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing
- Air cargo containers, light gauge metal, manufacturing
- Aircraft hardware, metal, manufacturing
- Automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing
- Automobile skid chains made from purchased wire
- Automotive machine shops
- Precision turned product manufacturing
- Bolts, metal, manufacturing
- Annealing metals and metal products for the trade
- Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade
- Anodizing metals and metal products for the trade
- Angle valves, industrial-type, manufacturing
- Control valves, fluid power, manufacturing
- Antiscald bath and shower valves, plumbing, manufacturing
- Aerosol valves manufacturing
- Annular ball bearings manufacturing
- Ammunition, small arms (i.e., 30 mm. or less, 1.18 inch or less), manufacturing
- Adapters, bombcluster, manufacturing
- Aircraft artillery manufacturing
- Bends, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe
- Aluminum freezer foil not made in rolling mills