SIC 3496 Miscellaneous Fabricated Wire Products

Contenidos

• NAICS CODE(S).
• INDUSTRY SNAPSHOT.
• BACKGROUND AND DEVELOPMENT.
• Developments in the 1980s and 1990s.
• CURRENT CONDITIONS.
• INDUSTRY LEADERS.
• FURTHER READING.

SIC 3496

This category includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing miscellaneous fabricated wire products from purchased wire, such as noninsulated wire rope and cable, fencing, screening, netting, paper machine wire cloth, hangers, paper clips, kitchenware, and wire carts. Rolling mills engaged in manufacturing wire products are classified in the Primary Metal Industries. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing steel nails and spikes from purchased wire or rod are classified in SIC 3315: Steel Wiredrawing and Steel Nails and Spikes; those manufacturing nonferrous wire nails and spikes from purchased wire or rod are classified in SIC 3399: Primary Metal Products, Not Elsewhere Classified; those drawing and insulating nonferrous wire are classified in SIC 3357: Drawing and Insulating of Nonferrous Wire; and those manufacturing wire springs are classified in SIC 3495: Wire Springs.

NAICS CODE(S)

332618

Other Fabricated Wire Product Manufacturing

INDUSTRY SNAPSHOT

The miscellaneous fabricated wire products industry produces a wide variety of wire-based goods, including barbed wire, bird cages, conveyor belts, hog rings, and paper clips. The largest single product produced by the industry is noninsulated ferrous wire rope and cable, representing 12.9 percent of the total product share in the late 1990s. While ferrous and nonferrous wire cloth, ferrous woven wire products, fencing, and fence gates all claim significant shares of the market, the production of the majority of products produced by this industry is too limited to be represented statistically. The materials consumed by the industry include steel castings, plastics and bolts, stainless steel, and copper and aluminum wires. Steel wire is the most heavily consumed category of wire.

Overall shipments for the industry were valued at almost $6 billion in 2002. In 2003 the combined spring and wire product manufacturing industry shipped more than $9.1 billion worth of products.

BACKGROUND AND DEVELOPMENT

Barbed wire, the most famous of miscellaneous fabricated wire products, changed the course of American history. According to Henry D. and Frances T. McCallum, authors of The Wire that Fenced the West, "The introduction of barbed wire in the 1870s had remarkable social and...