2022 NAICS national industry in sector 31-33 Manufacturing
321920 Wood Container and Pallet Manufacturing
NAICS 321920 is the US industry code for wood container and pallet manufacturing. It covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing wood pallets, wood box shook, wood boxes, other wood containers, and wood parts for pallets and containers.
- Code
- 321920 (2022 NAICS)
- Title
- Wood Container and Pallet Manufacturing
- Part of
- Other Wood Product Manufacturing
- SBA small business limit
- Up to 500 employees
- Closest UK SIC
- 16230, 16290 (details)
Changes coming. The NAICS 2027 revision applies to data from 1 January 2027, and SBA proposed new size standards on 20 August 2026. The values on this page are the ones in force today; we update this page when the official files change.
Official definition
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing wood pallets, wood box shook, wood boxes, other wood containers, and wood parts for pallets and containers.
When to use a different code
Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:
- Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing wood burial caskets are classified in U.S. Industry 339995, Burial Casket Manufacturing.
Activities listed under 321920
The Census index assigns these 62 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.
- Ammunition boxes, wood, manufacturing
- Barrel heading and staves manufacturing
- Barrels, wood, coopered, manufacturing
- Baskets, wood (e.g., round stave, veneer), manufacturing
- Berry crates, wood, wirebound, manufacturing
- Berry cups, veneer and splint, manufacturing
- Box cleats, wood, manufacturing
- Box shook manufacturing
- Boxes, cigar, wood or part wood, manufacturing
- Boxes, jewelry, wood or part wood, manufacturing
- Boxes, wood, manufacturing
- Boxes, wood, plain or fabric covered, nailed or lock corner, manufacturing
- Buckets, wood, coopered, manufacturing
- Cases, shipping, wood, wirebound, manufacturing
- Cases, wood packing, nailed or lock corner, manufacturing
- Cases, wood shipping, nailed or lock corner, manufacturing
- Casks, wood, coopered, manufacturing
- Chests for tools, wood, manufacturing
- Chicken coops (i.e., crates), wood, wirebound for shipping poultry, manufacturing
- Cigar boxes, wood and part wood, manufacturing
- Containers, wood, manufacturing
- Cooperage manufacturing
- Cooperage stock (e.g., heading, hoops, staves) manufacturing
- Cooperage stock mills
- Coopered tubs manufacturing
- Crates (e.g., berry, butter, fruit, vegetable) made of wood, wirebound, manufacturing
- Drums, plywood, manufacturing
- Drums, shipping, wood, wirebound, manufacturing
- Egg cases, wood, manufacturing
- Firkins and kits, wood, coopered, manufacturing
- Flats, wood, greenhouse, manufacturing
- Fruit baskets, veneer and splint, manufacturing
- Fruit crates, wood, wirebound, manufacturing
- Heading, barrel (i.e., cooperage stock), wood, manufacturing
- Hogsheads, coopered wood, manufacturing
- Hoops, sawed or split wood for tight or slack cooperage, manufacturing
- Hot tubs, coopered, manufacturing
- Kegs, wood, coopered, manufacturing
- Packing cases, wood, nailed or lock corner, manufacturing
- Packing crates, wood, manufacturing
- Pails, coopered wood, manufacturing
- Pails, plywood, manufacturing
- Pails, wood, manufacturing
- Pallet containers, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing
- Pallet parts, wood, manufacturing
- Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing
- Round stave baskets (e.g., fruit, vegetable) manufacturing
- Shipping cases and drums, wood, wirebound, manufacturing
- Shipping cases, wood, nailed or lock corner, manufacturing
- Shipping crates, wood, manufacturing
- Shook, box, manufacturing
- Skids and pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing
- Splint baskets for fruits and vegetables, manufacturing
- Staves, barrel, sawed or split, manufacturing
- Tanks, wood, coopered, manufacturing
- Tobacco hogshead stock, manufacturing
- Tobacco hogsheads, manufacturing
- Tool chests, wood, manufacturing
- Trays, carrier, wood, manufacturing
- Vegetable baskets, veneer and splint, manufacturing
- Vegetable crates, wood, wirebound, manufacturing
- Veneer baskets, for fruits and vegetables, manufacturing
SBA size standard for 321920
To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 321920, 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: 1623, 1629), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.
- 16230Manufacture of other builders' carpentry and joineryUK 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.
Data last changed November 14, 2026. How this page is built.