32111 Sawmills and Wood Preservation

Official definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) sawing dimension lumber, boards, beams, timber, poles, ties, shingles, shakes, siding, and wood chips from logs or bolts; (2) sawing round wood poles, pilings, and posts and treating them with preservatives; and (3) treating wood sawed, planed, or shaped in other establishments with creosote or other preservatives to prevent decay and to protect against fire and insects. Sawmills may plane the rough lumber that they make with a planing machine to achieve smoothness and uniformity of size.

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:

• Operating portable chipper mills in the field are classified in Industry 11331, Logging.
• Manufacturing wood products (except round wood poles, pilings, and posts) and treating them with preservatives are classified elsewhere in Subsector 321, Wood Product Manufacturing, based on the related production process.
• Manufacturing veneer from logs and bolts or manufacturing engineered lumber and structural members other than solid wood are classified in Industry 32121, Veneer, Plywood, and Engineered Wood Product Manufacturing.
• Planing purchased lumber or manufacturing cut stock or dimension stock (i.e., shapes) from logs or bolts are classified in Industry 32191, Millwork.

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

Codes in 32111

• 321113Sawmills
• 321114Wood Preservation