311824 Dry Pasta, Dough, and Flour Mixes Manufacturing from Purchased Flour

Official definition

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing dry pasta and/or (2) manufacturing prepared flour mixes or dough from flour ground elsewhere. The establishments in this industry may package the dry pasta they manufacture with other ingredients.

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:

• Milling flour and preparing flour mixes or doughs are classified in U.S. Industry 311211, Flour Milling.
• Manufacturing fresh pasta are classified in U.S. Industry 311991, Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing.
• Manufacturing pasta specialties are classified in Industry Group 3114, Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing.
• Mixing purchased dried and/or dehydrated ingredients with purchased dry pasta are classified in U.S. Industry 311999, All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing.
• Drying and/or dehydrating ingredients packaged with purchased dry pasta are classified in U.S. Industry 311423, Dried and Dehydrated Food Manufacturing.

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

Activities listed under 311824

The Census index assigns these 23 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Batters, prepared, made from purchased flour
• Bread and bread-type roll mixes made from purchased flour
• Cake mixes made from purchased flour
• Cookie dough made from purchased flour
• Doughs, refrigerated or frozen, made from purchased flour
• Dry mixes made from purchased flour
• Dry pasta manufacturing
• Dry pasta packaged with other ingredients made in dry pasta plants
• Egg noodles, dry, manufacturing
• Flour, blended or self-rising, made from purchased flour
• Frozen doughs made from purchased flour
• Macaroni, dry, manufacturing
• Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake), made from purchased flour
• Noodle mixes made in dry pasta plants
• Noodles, dry, manufacturing
• Pancake mixes made from purchased flour
• Pasta, dry, manufacturing
• Pastries, uncooked, manufacturing
• Pie crust shells, uncooked, made from purchased flour
• Pizza doughs made from purchased flour
• Prepared flour mixes made from purchased flour
• Refrigerated doughs made from purchased flour
• Spaghetti, dry, manufacturing

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 311824

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 311824, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed 850 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: 1061, 1074, 1075), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 10611Grain millingUK SIC
• 10612Manufacture of breakfast cereals and cereals-based foodUK SIC

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

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