SIC 3069 Fabricated Rubber Products, Not Elsewhere Classified
SIC 3069
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing industrial rubber goods, rubberized fabrics and vulcanized rubber clothing, and miscellaneous rubber specialties and sundries, not elsewhere classified. Included in this industry are establishments primarily engaged in reclaiming rubber and rubber articles. Establishments primarily engaged in the wholesale distribution of scrap rubber are classified in SIC 5093: Scrap and Waste Materials. Establishments primarily engaged in rebuilding and retreading tires are classified in SIC 7534: Tire Retreading and Repair Shops; those manufacturing rubberized clothing from purchased materials are classified in SIC 2385: Waterproof Outerwear; and those manufacturing gaskets and packing are classified in SIC 3053: Gaskets, Packing, and Sealing Devices.
313320
Fabric Coating Mills
326192
Resilient Floor Covering Manufacturing
326299
All Other Rubber Product Manufacturing
This industry includes more than 100 rubber products not classified in other rubber products industries such as toy balloons, rubber brake linings, rubber rafts and pontoons, and many others. The total value of U.S. shipments for these products was an estimated $7.3 billion in 2001. There were approximately 1,225 establishments in the industry at the turn of the twenty-first century, employing some 51,792 workers. After rising steadily since the beginning of the 1990s, sales and shipments had begun to fluctuate between $7.7 billion and $7.9 billion in the late 1990s, before declining in the early 2000s.
Growing demand among manufacturers for rubber products fueled shipment increases, although higher consumer spending was also a major factor. Demand for items used in automobiles and those related to health protection forecast larger-than-average percentage increases. With a large number of players in these market segments, firms would continue to focus on improved customer service, product design, and delivery. U.S. firms exported a good deal of products to industrialized countries, but also imported a considerable amount of low-cost products from developing nations. Manufacturers were expected to continue focusing on flexible, customer-oriented production. Development of new materials also forecast improved product quality and durability.
With the AIDS crisis escalating throughout the 1980s and continuing into the 1990s, more attention has been focused on latex gloves and condoms than on any other fabricated rubber product. Both products are made by a dipping process in which a form in the shape of the product desired (such as a hand) is dipped into latex. Condom sales fell between 1991 and 1994 according to the American Psychological Association and based on scanner data from retail outlets. However, sales were on the rise again in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Condom sales in 2002 jumped 5 percent to $260.6 million. The top U.S. condom firms are Church and Dwight Co., Durex Consumer Products Inc., and Ansell Healthcare Inc.
Ansell International, the world's largest maker of examination gloves, closed a plant in Arizona and shifted much of its production to its...
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