321912 Cut Stock, Resawing Lumber, and Planing

Official definition

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) manufacturing dimension lumber from purchased lumber; (2) manufacturing dimension stock (i.e., shapes) or cut stock; (3) resawing the output of sawmills; and (4) planing purchased lumber. These establishments generally use woodworking machinery, such as jointers, planers, lathes, and routers to shape wood.

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 dimension lumber, boards, beams, timbers, poles, ties, shingles, shakes, siding, and wood chips from logs or bolts are classified in U.S. Industry 321113, Sawmills.
• Manufacturing wood stairwork, wood molding, wood trim, and other millwork are classified in U.S. Industry 321918, Other Millwork (including Flooring).
• Manufacturing wood furniture frames and finished wood furniture parts are classified in U.S. Industry 337215, Showcase, Partition, Shelving, and Locker Manufacturing.

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

Activities listed under 321912

The Census index assigns these 38 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Blanks, wood (e.g., bowling pins, handles, textile machinery accessories), manufacturing
• Boards, wood, resawing purchased lumber
• Bobbin blocks and blanks, wood, manufacturing
• Bowling pin blanks manufacturing
• Brush blocks, wood, turned and shaped
• Cants, resawed (lumber), manufacturing
• Ceiling lumber, dressed, resawing purchased lumber
• Cut stock manufacturing
• Dimension lumber, hardwood, resawing purchased lumber
• Dimension lumber, resawing purchased lumber
• Dimension lumber, softwood, resawing purchased lumber
• Dimension stock, hardwood, manufacturing
• Dimension stock, softwood, manufacturing
• Dimension stock, wood, manufacturing
• Furniture dimension stock, hardwood, unfinished, manufacturing
• Furniture dimension stock, softwood, unfinished, manufacturing
• Furniture dimension stock, unfinished wood, manufacturing
• Furniture squares, unfinished hardwood, manufacturing
• Gun stock blanks manufacturing
• Handle blanks, wood, manufacturing
• Handle stock, sawed or planed, manufacturing
• Hardwood dimension lumber and stock, resawing purchased lumber
• Ladder rounds or rungs, hardwood, manufacturing
• Lath, wood, manufacturing
• Lathmills, wood
• Lumber, hardwood dimension, resawing purchased lumber
• Lumber, softwood dimension, resawing purchased lumber
• Planing mills (except millwork)
• Planing purchased lumber
• Resawing purchased lumber
• Rounds or rungs, furniture, hardwood, manufacturing
• Sawed lumber, resawing purchased lumber
• Snow fence lath manufacturing
• Softwood dimension lumber and stock, resawing purchased lumber
• Stock, chair, unfinished hardwood, manufacturing
• Studs, resawing purchased lumber
• Turnings, furniture, unfinished wood, manufacturing
• Vehicle stock, hardwood, manufacturing

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 321912

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 321912, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed 500 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: 1610, 1622, 1629), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 16100Sawmilling and planing of woodUK SIC
• 16220Manufacture of assembled parquet floorsUK SIC
• 16290Manufacture of other products of wood; manufacture of articles of cork, straw and plaiting materialsUK SIC

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

Similar codes to compare

• 321911Wood Window and Door Manufacturing
• 321918Other Millwork (including Flooring)