327910 Abrasive Product Manufacturing

Official definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing abrasive grinding wheels of natural or synthetic materials, abrasive-coated products, and other abrasive products.

Examples Census gives

• Aluminum oxide (fused) abrasives manufacturing
• Buffing and polishing wheels, abrasive and nonabrasive, manufacturing
• Diamond dressing wheels manufacturing
• Sandpaper manufacturing
• Silicon carbide abrasives manufacturing
• Whetstones manufacturing

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:

• Mining and cutting grindstones, pulpstones, and whetstones are classified in Industry 212390, Other Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying.
• Manufacturing plastic scouring pads are classified in U.S. Industry 326199, All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing.
• Manufacturing metallic scouring pads and steel wool are classified in U.S. Industry 332999, All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing.

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

Activities listed under 327910

The Census index assigns these 17 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Abrasive products manufacturing
• Aluminum oxide (fused) abrasives manufacturing
• Buffing and polishing wheels, abrasive and nonabrasive, manufacturing
• Cloth (e.g., aluminum oxide, garnet, emery, silicon carbide), abrasive-coated, made from purchased cloth
• Diamond dressing wheels manufacturing
• Grains, abrasive, natural and artificial, manufacturing
• Grinding balls, ceramic, manufacturing
• Grinding wheels manufacturing
• Paper (e.g., aluminum oxide, emery, garnet, silicon carbide), abrasive-coated, made from purchased paper
• Polishing wheels manufacturing
• Pumice and pumicite abrasives manufacturing
• Sandpaper manufacturing
• Silicon carbide abrasives manufacturing
• Steel shot abrasives manufacturing
• Wheels, abrasive, manufacturing
• Wheels, polishing and grinding, manufacturing
• Whetstones manufacturing

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 327910

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 327910, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed 900 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.