Analysis
NAICS 334516 is the 2022 national industry for analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing, part of 33451 (Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing). Census lists 63 example activities under it in the official index.
County Business Patterns counts 652 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 50,576 people at an average annual payroll of $113,450 per employee (89th percentile of national industries). 28% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include acidity (i.e., pH) measuring equipment, laboratory…, amino acid analyzers, laboratory-type, manufacturing, atomic force microscopes manufacturing and automatic chemical analyzers, laboratory-type, manufacturing, among 63 in all.
Its goods appear in 43 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 9027 (instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis…), 9012 (microscopes other than optical microscopes; diffraction…) and 9031 (measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
For example, manufacturing instruments for monitoring and analyzing continuous samples from medical patients are classified in 334510 (Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing) instead.
Census lists 2 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 334510 and 334513. Businesses that do several things are classified by their primary activity, the one that generates the most value, so check those boundaries before settling on this code.
Official definition
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing instruments and instrumentation systems for laboratory analysis of the chemical or physical composition or concentration of samples of solid, fluid, gaseous, or composite material.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
| The business mainly does | Use instead |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing instruments for monitoring and analyzing continuous samples from medical patients | 334510 Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing instruments and related devices that measure, display, or control (i.e., monitor or analyze) industrial process variables | 334513 Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables |
Index entries (63)
- Acidity (i.e., pH) measuring equipment, laboratory analysis-type, manufacturing
- Amino acid analyzers, laboratory-type, manufacturing
- Atomic force microscopes manufacturing
- Automatic chemical analyzers, laboratory-type, manufacturing
- Blood bank process equipment manufacturing
- Chromatographic instruments, laboratory-type, manufacturing
- Chronoscopes manufacturing
- Colorimeters, laboratory-type, manufacturing
- Coulometric analyzers, laboratory-type, manufacturing
- Densitometers, laboratory analytical, manufacturing
- Differential thermal analysis instruments, laboratory-type, manufacturing
- Electrolytic conductivity instruments, laboratory-type, manufacturing
- Electron microprobes, laboratory-type, manufacturing
- Electron microscopes manufacturing
- Electron paramagnetic spin-type apparatus manufacturing
- Electrophoresis instruments manufacturing
- Elemental analyzers manufacturing
- Flame photometers manufacturing
- Gas analyzers, laboratory-type, manufacturing
- Gas chromatographic instruments, laboratory-type, manufacturing
- Hematology instruments manufacturing
- Immunology instruments, laboratory, manufacturing
- Infrared analytical instruments, laboratory-type, manufacturing
- Laboratory analytical instruments (except optical) manufacturing
- Liquid chromatographic instruments, laboratory-type, manufacturing
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) type apparatus (except medical diagnostic) manufacturing
- Mass spectrometers manufacturing
- Mass spectroscopy instrumentation manufacturing
- Microbiology instruments manufacturing
- Microprobes (e.g., electron, ion, laser, X-ray) manufacturing
- Microscopes, electron and proton, manufacturing
- Moisture analyzers, laboratory-type, manufacturing
- Monochrometers, laboratory-type, manufacturing
- Nanomanipulator equipment manufacturing
- Nanosensor instruments manufacturing
- Nephelometers (except meteorological) manufacturing
- Neutron activation analysis instruments manufacturing
- Osmometers manufacturing
- Particle beam excitation instruments, laboratory-type, manufacturing
- Particle size analyzers manufacturing