Alumina and Aluminum Production and Processing

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) refining alumina; (2) making (i.e., the primary production) aluminum from alumina; (3) recovering aluminum from scrap or dross; (4) alloying purchased aluminum; and (5) manufacturing aluminum primary forms (e.g., bar, foil,… 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: 0 of 0
Primitives: 57 in 8 parts
Last updated: Nov 2, 2026

The numbers for this industry

United States · 2023 · NAICS 3313

Establishments: 431
Employees: 57,358
Annual payroll: $4.4B
Payroll per employee: $76.2K

Establishments by number of employees

1-461
5-939
10-1928
1000+8
20-4961
50-9987
100-24996
250-49934
500-99917

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	Coverage
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	—

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57 primitives

Primitive	Part	Layer	Description	Parameters	Coverage
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	—