311513 Cheese Manufacturing

Official definition

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing cheese products (except cottage cheese) from raw milk and/or processed milk products and/or (2) manufacturing cheese substitutes from soybean and other nondairy substances.

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 cheese-based salad dressings are classified in U.S. Industry 311941, Mayonnaise, Dressing, and Other Prepared Sauce Manufacturing.
• Manufacturing cottage cheese are classified in U.S. Industry 311511, Fluid Milk Manufacturing.

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

Activities listed under 311513

The Census index assigns these 13 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing
• Cheese analogs manufacturing
• Cheese products, imitation or substitute, manufacturing
• Cheese spreads manufacturing
• Cheese, imitation or substitute, manufacturing
• Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing
• Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing
• Dips, cheese based, manufacturing
• Nondairy cheese manufacturing
• Nondairy cheese products manufacturing
• Processed cheeses manufacturing
• Spreads, cheese, manufacturing
• Whey, raw, liquid, manufacturing

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 311513

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 311513, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed 1,250 employees. Check your business.

Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 1050, 1079), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 10511Liquid milk and cream productionUK SIC
• 10512Butter and cheese productionUK SIC
• 10519Manufacture of other milk productsUK SIC
• 10520Manufacture of ice creamUK SIC
• 10710Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakesUK SIC
• 10720Manufacture of rusks and biscuits; manufacture of preserved pastry goods and cakesUK SIC
• 10730Manufacture of macaroni, noodles, couscous and similar farinaceous productsUK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.

Similar codes to compare

• 311511Fluid Milk Manufacturing
• 311512Creamery Butter Manufacturing
• 311514Dry, Condensed, and Evaporated Dairy Product Manufacturing