31131 Sugar Manufacturing

Official definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing raw sugar, liquid sugar, and refined sugar from sugarcane, raw cane sugar and sugar beets.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Manufacturing corn sweeteners by wet milling corn are classified in Industry 31122, Starch and Vegetable Fats and Oils Manufacturing.
• Manufacturing table syrups from corn syrup and starch base dessert powders are classified in Industry 31199, All Other Food Manufacturing.
• Reducing maple sap to maple syrup or maple sugar are classified in Industry 11199, All Other Crop Farming.
• Manufacturing synthetic sweeteners (i.e., sweetening agents), such as saccharin and sugar substitutes (i.e., synthetic sweetener blended with other ingredients) are classified in Subsector 325, Chemical Manufacturing.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Codes in 31131

• 311313Beet Sugar Manufacturing
• 311314Cane Sugar Manufacturing