313310 Textile and Fabric Finishing Mills

Official definition

This industry comprises (1) establishments primarily engaged in finishing textiles, fabrics, and apparel and (2) establishments of converters who buy fabric goods in the grey, have them finished on contract, and sell at wholesale. Finishing operations include: bleaching, dyeing, printing (e.g., roller, screen, flock, plisse), stonewashing, and other mechanical finishing, such as preshrinking, shrinking, sponging, calendering, mercerizing, and napping; as well as cleaning, scouring, and the preparation of natural fibers and raw stock.

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:

• Coating or impregnating fabrics are classified in Industry 313320, Fabric Coating Mills.
• Knitting or knitting and finishing fabric are classified in Industry 313240, Knit Fabric Mills.
• Manufacturing and finishing apparel are classified in Subsector 315, Apparel Manufacturing.
• Weaving and finishing fabrics are classified in Industry Group 3132, Fabric Mills.
• Manufacturing and finishing rugs and carpets are classified in Industry 314110, Carpet and Rug Mills.
• Printing on apparel are classified in Industry 32311, Printing.

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

Activities listed under 313310

The Census index assigns these 36 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Bleaching textile products, apparel, and fabrics
• Broadwoven fabrics finishing
• Burling and mending fabrics
• Calendering textile products, apparel, and fabrics
• Carbonizing textile fibers
• Carding textile fibers
• Chemical finishing (e.g., fire, mildew, water resistance) fabrics
• Combing and converting top
• Combing textile fibers
• Converters, piece goods
• Converting textiles
• Crease resistant finishing of fabrics
• Dyeing gloves, woven or knit, for the trade
• Dyeing textile products and fabrics
• Embossing textile products and fabrics
• Fabric finishing
• Fabric mercerizing
• Gassing yarn (i.e., singeing)
• Mechanical finishing of fabrics
• Mercerizing textile products and fabrics
• Napping textile products and fabrics
• Preshrinking textile products and fabrics
• Printing fabric grey goods
• Printing textile banners (except screen printing)
• Printing textile products (except screen and apparel printing)
• Scouring and combing textile fibers
• Screen printing fabric grey goods
• Shrinking textile products and fabrics
• Sizing of fabrics
• Sponging textile products and fabrics
• Stone washing textile products, apparel, and fabrics
• Sueding textile products and fabrics
• Teaseling fabrics
• Textile products finishing
• Thread finishing
• Wool tops and noils manufacturing

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 313310

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 313310, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed 1,000 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: 1311, 1313), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 13100Preparation and spinning of textile fibresUK SIC

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

Similar codes to compare

• 313320Fabric Coating Mills