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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
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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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