SIC 2655 Fiber Cans, Tubes, Drums and Similar Products

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SIC 2655

Establishments in this industry are primarily engaged in manufacturing fiber cans, tubes, drums, cones, and similar products from purchased paperboard. These products can be made with or without metal ends. This industry segment produces a wide variety of products, including paper fiber bottles, fiber bobbins, composite cans, all-fiber cans, fiber drums (metal-end or all fiber), fiber cores, mailing cases and tubes, and tubes for chemical and electrical use.

NAICS CODE(S)

322214

Fiber Can, Tube, Drum, and Similar Products Manufacturing

Fiber can and drum manufacturing is a mature industry, with growth at or below the rate of increase in the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). From 1984 to 1997, the value of this industry's product shipments increased roughly 35 percent, from $1.69 billion to $2.14 billion. With an annualized growth rate of 2.7 percent, this industry ranked among the slower growing paper products industries, but was still close to matching the country's average growth in GDP. However, after growing to $2.32 billion in 2000, the value of shipments in 2002 declined to $1.88 billion. This decrease reflected a general economic downturn in the United States. Sales grew modestly by 2005, reaching $2.07 billion.

The number of establishments in the industry was 258 in 2004, down from 275 in 2000. In 2004 this industry employed 8,434 people with a total payroll of $318 million (compared with 13,000 people in 1992). In 2002 some 7,770 of the industry's employees were production workers who put in 15 million hours for wages of $242 million.

The manufacture of fiber cans, tubes, and drums is concentrated east of the Mississippi River. The top three producing regions, in terms of total shipments, are the north central, the southeast/mid-Atlantic, and the northeastern regions of the United States. In 2004 Ohio was the leading producer of fiber cans and drums, followed by Wisconsin and Georgia.

Fiber cans, tubes, and similar products are, by far, the largest category of products produced by this industry, accounting for $1.83 billion of the industry's shipment values in 2002. Paperboard fiber drums, a larger-sized product, accounted for $277 million of total fiber cans, drums, and similar product shipments in 2001. Fiber cans, tubes, drums, and similar products not specified by kind accounted for $61 million.

Paper and paperboard (not including boxes and containers) represent the single...