2022 NAICS national industry in sector 31-33 Manufacturing
327110 Pottery, Ceramics, and Plumbing Fixture Manufacturing
NAICS 327110 is the US industry code for pottery, ceramics, and plumbing fixture manufacturing. It covers establishments primarily engaged in shaping, molding, glazing, and firing pottery, ceramics, plumbing fixtures, and electrical supplies made entirely or partly of clay or other ceramic materials.
- Code
- 327110 (2022 NAICS)
- Title
- Pottery, Ceramics, and Plumbing Fixture Manufacturing
- Part of
- Clay Product and Refractory Manufacturing
- SBA small business limit
- Up to 1,000 employees
- Closest UK SIC
- 23910, 23990 (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 shaping, molding, glazing, and firing pottery, ceramics, plumbing fixtures, and electrical supplies made entirely or partly of clay or other ceramic materials.
Examples Census gives
- Bathroom accessories, vitreous china and earthenware, manufacturing
- Ceramic or ferrite permanent magnets manufacturing
- Chemical stoneware (i.e., pottery products) manufacturing
- Clay and ceramic statuary manufacturing
- Earthenware table and kitchen articles, coarse, manufacturing
- Porcelain electrical insulators manufacturing
- Vitreous china plumbing fixtures manufacturing
When to use a different code
Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:
- Manufacturing enameled iron and steel plumbing fixtures are classified in U.S. Industry 332999, All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing metal bathroom accessories are classified in Subsector 332, Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing cultured marble and other plastics plumbing fixtures are classified in U.S. Industry 326191, Plastics Plumbing Fixture Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing clay building materials, such as ceramic tile, bricks, and clay roofing tiles, and refractories are classified in Industry 327120, Clay Building Material and Refractories Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing ferrite microwave devices and electronic components are classified in Subsector 334, Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing plastics bathroom accessories are classified in U.S. Industry 326199, All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing.
Activities listed under 327110
The Census index assigns these 72 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.
- Advanced and technical ceramic products manufacturing
- Alumina porcelain insulators manufacturing
- Architectural sculptures, clay, manufacturing
- Ashtrays, pottery, manufacturing
- Bathroom accessories, vitreous china and earthenware, manufacturing
- Beryllia porcelain insulators manufacturing
- Bidets, vitreous china, manufacturing
- Bone china manufacturing
- Chemical stoneware (i.e., pottery products) manufacturing
- China cooking ware manufacturing
- China tableware, vitreous, manufacturing
- Clay and ceramic statuary manufacturing
- Cones, pyrometric, earthenware, manufacturing
- Cooking ware (e.g., stoneware, coarse earthenware, pottery), manufacturing
- Cooking ware, china, manufacturing
- Cooking ware, fine earthenware, manufacturing
- Crockery manufacturing
- Decalcomania on china and glass for the trade
- Decorating china (e.g., encrusting gold, silver, other metal on china) for the trade
- Dishes, pottery, manufacturing
- Drinking fountains, vitreous china, non-refrigerated, manufacturing
- Earthenware table and kitchen articles, coarse, manufacturing
- Earthenware, commercial and household, semivitreous, manufacturing
- Ecclesiastical statuary, clay, manufacturing
- Electrical insulators, ceramic, manufacturing
- Electrical supplies, ceramic, manufacturing
- Faucet handles, vitreous china and earthenware, manufacturing
- Filtering media, pottery, manufacturing
- Firing china for the trade
- Florists' articles, red earthenware, manufacturing
- Flower pots, red earthenware, manufacturing
- Forms for dipped rubber products, pottery, manufacturing
- Garden pottery manufacturing
- Handles, faucet, vitreous china and earthenware, manufacturing
- Hotel tableware and kitchen articles, vitreous china, manufacturing
- Household-type earthenware, semivitreous, manufacturing
- Household-type tableware and kitchen articles, vitreous china, manufacturing
- Insulators, electrical porcelain, manufacturing
- Kitchen articles, coarse earthenware, manufacturing
- Kitchenware, commercial and household-type, vitreous china, manufacturing
- Kitchenware, semivitreous earthenware, manufacturing
- Lamp bases, pottery, manufacturing
- Lavatories, vitreous china, manufacturing
- Magnets, permanent, ceramic or ferrite, manufacturing
- Plumbing fixtures, vitreous china, manufacturing
- Porcelain parts, electrical and electronic device, molded, manufacturing
- Porcelain, chemical, manufacturing
- Pottery made and sold on site
- Pottery products manufacturing
- Pyrometer tubes manufacturing
- Pyrometric cones, earthenware, manufacturing
- Sculptures, architectural, clay, manufacturing
- Sinks, vitreous china, manufacturing
- Soap dishes, vitreous china and earthenware, manufacturing
- Spark plug insulators, porcelain, manufacturing
- Stationery articles, pottery, manufacturing
- Statuary, clay and ceramic, manufacturing
- Steatite porcelain insulators manufacturing
- Stoneware (i.e., pottery products) manufacturing
- Table articles, coarse earthenware, manufacturing
- Table articles, earthenware, manufacturing
- Table articles, fine earthenware (i.e., whiteware), manufacturing
- Table articles, vitreous china, manufacturing
- Tableware, vitreous china, manufacturing
- Tanks, flush, vitreous china, manufacturing
- Textile guides, porcelain, manufacturing
- Titania porcelain insulators manufacturing
- Toilet fixtures, vitreous china, manufacturing
- Towel bar holders, vitreous china and earthenware, manufacturing
- Urinals, vitreous china, manufacturing
- Vases, pottery (e.g., china, earthenware, stoneware), manufacturing
- Water closet bowls, vitreous china, manufacturing
SBA size standard for 327110
To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 327110, 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: 2392, 2393), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.
- 23910Production of abrasive productsUK SIC
- 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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