332431

Analysis

NAICS 332431 is the 2022 national industry for metal can manufacturing, part of 33243 (Metal Can, Box, and Other Metal Container (Light Gauge) Manufacturing). Census lists 13 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 170 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 22,475 people at an average annual payroll of $88,119 per employee (76th percentile of national industries). 9% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.

By establishments it ranks 2nd of the 2 codes at this level within Metal Can, Box, and Other Metal Container (Light Gauge) Manufacturing, with 40.3% of them.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include aerosol cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing, aluminum cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing, beer cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing and can lids and ends, light gauge metal, manufacturing, among 13 in all.

Its goods appear in 5 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 7612 (aluminum casks, drums, cans, boxes and similar containers…) and 7310 (tanks, casks, drums, cans, boxes and similar containers…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 7% and employment rose 25%. 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.