System Atlas

Primary Metal Manufacturing

Industries in the Primary Metal Manufacturing subsector smelt and/or refine ferrous and nonferrous metals from ore, pig, or scrap, using electrometallurgical and other process metallurgical techniques. 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 88 placed here
Primitives
57 in 8 parts
Last updated
Nov 2, 2026

The numbers for this industry

United States · 2023 · NAICS 331
Establishments
3,570
Employees
354,914
Annual payroll
$29.7B
Payroll per employee
$83.7K
Establishments by number of employees
  • 1-4656
  • 5-9355
  • 10-19409
  • 1000+27
  • 20-49662
  • 50-99553
  • 100-249587
  • 250-499225
  • 500-99996

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.

What the registry holds here

Primary Metal Manufacturing and below · public parts only
With public findings
88
Public parts
190
Distinct sources
198
Last change
Nov 2, 2026

Counts of what public research has found and sourced, each part with its source on the organization’s profile. They say what is known, not how much of the industry exists.

Deepen this industry

Focused research on the organizations with the fewest mapped parts in primary metal manufacturing; what it finds is public for everyone.

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