SIC 3569 General Industrial Machinery and Equipment, Not Elsewhere Classified

SIC 3569

This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing machinery, equipment, and components for general industrial use, and for which no special classification is provided. Machine shops primarily engaged in producing machine and equipment parts, usually on a job or order basis, are classified in SIC 3599: Industrial and Commercial Machinery and Equipment, Not Elsewhere Classified.

NAICS CODE(S)

333999

All Other General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 1,825 establishments operated in this category for part or all of 2004. Industry-wide employment totaled approximately 52,534 workers receiving a payroll of more than $2.4 billion. Companies in this industry tended to be small in size, with about 67 percent employing less than 20 workers. The Annual Survey of Manufactures reported that overall shipments for the industry were valued at nearly $8.7 billion. Additionally, for the combined "all other miscellaneous general purpose machinery manufacturing" industry (including the welding and soldering equipment manufacturing industry and scale and balance [except laboratory] manufacturing industry), a total of 38,927 employees worked in production in 2004, putting in more than 79 million hours to earn wages of nearly $1.4 billion.

The industry leader for 2005 was Illinois Tool Works Inc. of Glenview, Illinois, which had sales of nearly $13 billion and employed about 50,000 people. Tyco Fire Products L.P. of Princeton, New Jersey, came in second with nearly $12 billion in 2005 sales. Rounding out the top three was Auburn Hills, Michigan-based ABB Flexible Automation Inc., with $9.6 billion in sales and 1,200 employees.

As companies continued to automate production facilities and move manufacturing operations across U.S. borders, the U.S. Department of Labor expected that employment for the general industrial machinery industry as a whole would continue to decline through 2014, falling by nearly 13 percent (to 230,000 jobs). For the "other general purpose machinery manufacturing" segment (NAICS 333900), 67,000 actual jobs were lost between 1994 and 2004.

In 1997 the category of general industrial machinery and equipment (not elsewhere classified) employed 61,793 workers with wages totaling more than $2.2 billion. By 2002 the number of workers decreased by about 6 percent, to 57,804 workers. Despite this drop, wages increased by 9 percent, to $2.4...