Secondary Smelting, Refining, and Alloying of Nonferrous Metal (except Copper and Aluminum)
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) alloying purchased nonferrous metals and/or (2) recovering nonferrous metals from scrap. Establishments in this industry make primary forms (e.g., bar, billet, bloom, cake, ingot, slab, slug, wire) using smelting or refining processes. 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
- Nov 2, 2026
The numbers for this industry
United States · 2023 · NAICS 331492- Establishments
- 187
- Employees
- 9,490
- Annual payroll
- $751.3M
- Payroll per employee
- $79.2K
- 1-446
- 5-924
- 10-1926
- 20-4935
- 50-9931
- 100-24917
- 250-4997
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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