333922

Analysis

NAICS 333922 is the 2022 national industry for conveyor and conveying equipment manufacturing, part of 33392 (Material Handling Equipment Manufacturing). Census lists 12 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 805 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 44,787 people at an average annual payroll of $81,669 per employee (70th 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 4 codes at this level within Material Handling Equipment Manufacturing, with 48.7% of them.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include belt conveyor systems manufacturing, buckets, elevator or conveyor, manufacturing, carousel conveyors (e.g., luggage) manufacturing and coal and ore conveyors manufacturing, among 12 in all.

Its goods appear in 6 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 8428 (other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery…) and 8431 (parts suitable for use solely or principally with the…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

For example, manufacturing passenger or freight elevators, dumbwaiters, and moving stairways are classified in 333921 (Elevator and Moving Stairway Manufacturing) instead.