SIC 2396 Automotive Trimmings, Apparel Findings, and Related Products

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SIC 2396

This category includes companies that manufacture automotive trimmings, apparel findings, and related products, and those that specialize in printing and stamping on garments and apparel accessories, including silk screen printing. Corporations classified in this industry make trimmings, bindings, and linings for items such as hats, suits, coats, neckties, purses, and luggage. They also make shoulder pads, shoulder straps, waistbands, ribbons, bows, sweatbands and visors for caps, and other components to be used by the textile industry.

NAICS CODE(S)

336360

Motor Vehicle Fabric Accessories and Seat Manufacturing

315999

Other Apparel Accessories and Other Apparel Manufacturing

323113

Commercial Screen Printing

314999

All Other Miscellaneous Textile Product Mills

In 2005 shipment values in the various product classes that make up this industry were as follows: automotive fabric accessories, $18.0 billion; printing on garments and apparel accessories (including silk screen printing) and stamped art goods, $7.1 billion; other apparel accessories, not specified by kind, $1.1 billion; and other trimmings and findings, $5.2 billion. Shipment values for all of the above products classes totaled more than $31.3 billion in 2005.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 407 establishments manufactured automotive fabric accessories in 2004. They employed nearly 57,000 workers and shipped more than $16.6 billion worth of goods. The largest concentrations of firms were located in Michigan, California, Indiana, and Ohio.

In 2005 QST Industries Inc. (Chicago, Illinois) sold $200 million worth of men's clothing component parts such as linings, shoulder pads, and waistbands. Among the leading companies in this classification that supplied the automotive industry were Prince Corp. (Holland, Michigan), which has operated as a subsidiary of Johnson Controls Inc. since 1996; Findlay Industries Inc. (Findlay, Ohio), with about 2,500 employees and estimated sales of $555 million in 2005; TS Trim Industries Inc. (Canal Winchester, Ohio), with estimated sales of $130 million; and HFI Inc. (Columbus, Ohio), with estimated sales of $27 million.

Companies in this industry operated plants outside the United States to better supply their customers. For example, in 1997 Findlay Industries announced that it would open a facility in Poland to supply nearby factories owned by General Motors Corp., one of its most...