Analysis
NAICS 332911 is the 2022 national industry for industrial valve manufacturing, part of 33291 (Metal Valve Manufacturing). Census lists 29 example activities under it in the official index.
County Business Patterns counts 472 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 34,046 people at an average annual payroll of $78,081 per employee (66th percentile of national industries). 19% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.
Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 13% and employment fell 6%. 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 1st of the 4 codes at this level within Metal Valve Manufacturing, with 41.5% of them.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include angle valves, industrial-type, manufacturing, automatic (i.e., controlling-type, regulating) valves…, ball valves, industrial-type, manufacturing and boiler gauge cocks, industrial-type, manufacturing, among 29 in all.
Its goods appear in 34 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 8481 (taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances, for pipes…). 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 manufacturing industrial valves and valves for water works and municipal water systems.
Illustrative Examples:
Complete fire hydrants manufacturing Industrial-type ball valves manufacturing Industrial-type butterfly valves manufacturing Industrial-type check valves manufacturing Industrial-type gate valves manufacturing Industrial-type globe valves manufacturing Industrial-type plug valves manufacturing Industrial-type solenoid valves (except fluid power) manufacturing Industrial-type steam traps manufacturing Valves for nuclear applications manufacturing
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
Index entries (29)
- Angle valves, industrial-type, manufacturing
- Automatic (i.e., controlling-type, regulating) valves, industrial-type, manufacturing
- Ball valves, industrial-type, manufacturing
- Boiler gauge cocks, industrial-type, manufacturing
- Butterfly valves, industrial-type, manufacturing
- Check valves, industrial-type, manufacturing
- Compressed gas cylinder valves manufacturing
- Control valves, industrial-type, manufacturing
- Cross valves, industrial-type, manufacturing
- Fire hydrant valves manufacturing
- Fire hydrants, complete, manufacturing
- Flushing hydrant manufacturing
- Gas valves, industrial-type, manufacturing
- Gate valves, industrial-type, manufacturing
- Globe valves, industrial-type, manufacturing
- Nuclear application valves manufacturing
- Plug valves, industrial-type, manufacturing
- Pressure control valves (except fluid power), industrial-type, manufacturing
- Safety (i.e., pop-off) valves, industrial-type, manufacturing
- Solenoid valves (except fluid power), industrial-type, manufacturing
- Steam traps, industrial-type, manufacturing
- Stop valves, industrial-type, manufacturing
- Straightway (i.e., Y-type) valves, industrial-type, manufacturing
- Thermostatic traps, industrial-type, manufacturing
- Valves for nuclear applications manufacturing
- Valves for water works and municipal water systems manufacturing
- Valves, industrial-type (e.g., check, gate, globe, relief, safety), manufacturing
- Water sampling station manufacturing
- Waterworks and municipal water system valves manufacturing