Analysis
NAICS 332119 is the 2022 national industry for metal crown, closure, and other metal stamping (except automotive), part of 33211 (Forging and Stamping). Census lists 9 example activities under it in the official index.
Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 19% and employment fell 10%. 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.
County Business Patterns counts 1,094 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 45,585 people at an average annual payroll of $63,159 per employee (39th percentile of national industries). 16% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.
By establishments it ranks 1st of the 5 codes at this level within Forging and Stamping, with 56.5% of them.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include bottle caps and tops, metal, stamping, caps and tops, bottle, metal, stamping, closures, metal, stamping and crowns, metal (e.g., bottle, can), stamping, among 9 in all.
Its goods appear in 2 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 8309 (stoppers, caps and lids (including crown corks, screw caps…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
Official definition
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) stamping metal crowns and closures, such as bottle caps and home canning lids and rings, and/or (2) manufacturing other unfinished metal stampings and spinning unfinished metal products (except automotive, cans, and coins). Establishments making metal stampings and metal spun products and further manufacturing (e.g., machining, assembling) a specific product are classified in the industry of the finished product. Metal stamping and metal spun products establishments may perform surface finishing operations, such as cleaning and deburring, on the products they manufacture.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
Index entries (9)
- Bottle caps and tops, metal, stamping
- Caps and tops, bottle, metal, stamping
- Closures, metal, stamping
- Crowns, metal (e.g., bottle, can), stamping
- Home canning lids and rings, metal stamping
- Lids, jar, metal, stamping
- Metal stampings (except automotive, cans, coins), unfinished, manufacturing
- Spinning unfinished metal products
- Stampings (except automotive, cans, coins), metal, unfinished, manufacturing