Steel Investment Foundries
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing steel investment castings. Investment molds are formed by covering a wax shape with a refractory slurry. After the refractory slurry hardens, the wax is melted, leaving a seamless mold. 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 331512- Establishments
- 106
- Employees
- 15,144
- Annual payroll
- $1B
- Payroll per employee
- $66.3K
Establishments by number of employees
- 1-47
- 5-93
- 10-197
- 20-4925
- 50-9923
- 100-24925
- 250-4998
- 500-9998
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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