Basic Chemical Manufacturing

This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing chemicals using basic processes, such as thermal cracking and distillation. Chemicals manufactured in this industry group are usually separate chemical elements or separate chemically-defined compounds. It has no schema of its own: companies here are mapped on the Manufacturing schema, and what it does not cover is recorded as gaps.

Baseline: Manufacturing v2
Inherited from: Manufacturing
Mapped on the schema: 0 of 0 placed here
Primitives: 57 in 8 parts
Last updated: 2 Nov 2026

The numbers for this industry

United States · 2023 · NAICS 3251

Establishments: 2,621
Employees: 168,047
Annual payroll: $18.6B
Payroll per employee: $110.5K

Establishments by number of employees

1-4545
5-9333
10-19368
1000+11
20-49621
50-99378
100-249260
250-49975
500-99930

Source: US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (national file), employees as of mid-March 2023, payroll for the year; published 2025-06-26. Coded on NAICS 2017. Withheld cells read as not published.

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57 primitives

Primitive	Part	Layer	Description	Parameters	Organizations
Plant safety and environment hse	Control: rules the company runs under	Decisions	Machine guarding, chemicals, emissions and waste.	1	—
Quality management system quality_systems	Control: rules the company runs under	Decisions	The documented system that controls processes, records nonconformances and drives corrective action.	3	—
Lot traceability traceability	Control: rules the company runs under	Data	Knowing which material lots went into which finished units and where they were shipped.	2	—
Strategy and goals strategy	Direction: deciding where it goes	Decisions	What the company is trying to become.	0	—
Governance and decision rights governance	Direction: deciding where it goes	Decisions	Who decides what, up to which limit.	0	—
Management cadence cadence	Direction: deciding where it goes	Process	The meetings and reviews that run the company.	0	—
Learning and improvement improvement	Direction: deciding where it goes	Process	How feedback changes the way work is done.	0	—

Organizations: how many of the 0 organizations mapped in public on Basic Chemical Manufacturing and below have a sourced part on the primitive. Primitives are matched by key, so organizations on earlier versions count.

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57 primitives

Primitive	Part	Layer	Description	Parameters	Organizations
Plant safety and environment hse	Control: rules the company runs under	Decisions	Machine guarding, chemicals, emissions and waste.	1	—
Quality management system quality_systems	Control: rules the company runs under	Decisions	The documented system that controls processes, records nonconformances and drives corrective action.	3	—
Lot traceability traceability	Control: rules the company runs under	Data	Knowing which material lots went into which finished units and where they were shipped.	2	—
Strategy and goals strategy	Direction: deciding where it goes	Decisions	What the company is trying to become.	0	—
Governance and decision rights governance	Direction: deciding where it goes	Decisions	Who decides what, up to which limit.	0	—
Management cadence cadence	Direction: deciding where it goes	Process	The meetings and reviews that run the company.	0	—
Learning and improvement improvement	Direction: deciding where it goes	Process	How feedback changes the way work is done.	0	—