Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing
Manufacturing basic inorganic chemicals (except industrial gases and synthetic dyes and pigments).
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The maximum number of employees a business can have to qualify as a "small business" for federal contracting and SBA loan programs.
What's Included
- ✓Alkalies manufacturing
- ✓Aluminum compounds, not specified elsewhere by
- ✓process, manufacturing
- ✓Carbides (e.g., baron, calcium, silicon, tungsten)
- ✓manufacturing
- ✓Carbon black manufacturing
- ✓Chlorine manufacturing
- ✓Hydrochloric acid manufacturing
- ✓Potassium inorganic compounds, not specified
- ✓elsewhere by process, manufacturing
- ✓Radioactive isotopes manufacturing
- ✓Sulfides and sulfites manufacturing
- ✓Sulfuric acid manufacturing
Example Companies
- ●Olin Corporation- Chlor alkali
- ●Tronox- Titanium products
- ●Chemours- Titanium technologies
This Code is NOT For...
NAICS 325180 does not cover the following activities. Use the correct code instead:
Manufacturing industrial gases
Manufacturing inorganic dyes and pigments
Manufacturing household bleaches
Mining and/or beneficiating alkalies
Manufacturing chlorine preparations (e.g., for swimming pools)
Manufacturing nitrogenous and phosphoric fertilizers and fertilizer materials
+ 3 more exclusions for this code
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