324122 Asphalt Shingle and Coating Materials Manufacturing

Official definition

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) saturating purchased mats and felts with asphalt or tar from purchased asphaltic materials and (2) manufacturing asphalt and tar and roofing cements and coatings from purchased asphaltic materials.

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:

• Refining crude petroleum and saturating purchased mats and felts with asphalt or tar into rolls and sheets and/or refining crude petroleum and manufacturing asphalt and tar roofing cements and coatings are classified in Industry 324110, Petroleum Refineries.
• Manufacturing paper mats and felts and saturating them with asphalt or tar into rolls and sheets are classified in Industry 322120, Paper Mills.

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

Activities listed under 324122

The Census index assigns these 19 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Asphalt roofing cements made from purchased asphaltic materials
• Asphalt roofing coatings made from purchased asphaltic materials
• Asphalt saturated boards made from purchased asphaltic materials
• Asphalt saturated mats and felts made from purchased asphaltic materials and paper
• Asphalt shingles made from purchased asphaltic materials
• Boards, asphalt saturated, made from purchased asphaltic materials
• Cements, asphalt roofing, made from purchased asphaltic materials
• Coating compounds, tar, made from purchased asphaltic materials
• Pitch, roofing, made from purchased asphaltic materials
• Roofing cements, asphalt, made from purchased asphaltic materials
• Roofing coatings made from purchased asphaltic materials
• Roofing felts made from purchased asphaltic materials
• Saturated felts made from purchased paper
• Sheathing, asphalt saturated, made from refined petroleum
• Shingles made from purchased asphaltic materials
• Siding made from purchased asphaltic materials
• Tar paper made from purchased asphaltic materials and paper
• Tar paper, building and roofing, made from purchased paper
• Tar roofing cements and coatings made from purchased asphaltic materials

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 324122

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 324122, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed 1,100 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: 2399), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 23990Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products n.e.c.UK SIC

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

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