Plastics Product Manufacturing
This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in processing new or spent (i.e., recycled) plastics resins into intermediate or final products, using such processes as compression molding; extrusion molding; injection molding; blow molding; and casting. 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
- Companies mapped
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The numbers for this industry
United States · 2023 · NAICS 3261- Establishments
- 9,636
- Employees
- 677,305
- Annual payroll
- $40.5B
- Payroll per employee
- $59.8K
Establishments by number of employees
- 1-41,794
- 5-91,064
- 10-191,362
- 1000+41
- 20-491,965
- 50-991,538
- 100-2491,363
- 250-499406
- 500-999103
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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- Smurfit Westrock Group0%
- DS Smith0%
- Amcor0%
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