331318 Other Aluminum Rolling, Drawing, and Extruding

Official definition

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) rolling, drawing, or extruding shapes (except flat rolled sheet, plate, foil, and welded tube) from purchased aluminum and/or (2) recovering aluminum from scrap and rolling, drawing, or extruding shapes (except flat rolled sheet, plate, foil, and welded tube) in integrated mills.

Examples Census gives

• Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum
• Nails, aluminum, made in wire drawing plants
• Structural shapes made by rolling purchased aluminum
• Rod made by extruding purchased aluminum
• Tube made by drawing or extruding purchased aluminum
• Wire, bare, made in aluminum wire drawing plants

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:

• Flat rolling sheet, plate, foil, and welded tube from either purchased aluminum or by recovering aluminum from scrap and flat rolling or continuous casting are classified in U.S. Industry 331315, Aluminum Sheet, Plate, and Foil Manufacturing.
• Making aluminum from alumina and making aluminum shapes are classified in U.S. Industry 331313, Alumina Refining and Primary Aluminum Production.

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

Activities listed under 331318

The Census index assigns these 55 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum
• Aluminum bar made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills
• Aluminum pipe made by extruding purchased aluminum
• Aluminum pipe made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills
• Aluminum rod made by extruding purchased aluminum
• Aluminum rod made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills
• Aluminum tube blooms made by extruding purchased aluminum
• Aluminum tube blooms made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills
• Aluminum tube made by drawing or extruding purchased aluminum
• Aluminum tube made in integrated secondary smelting and drawing plants
• Aluminum tube made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills
• Apparatus wire or cord made in aluminum wire drawing plants
• Automotive or aircraft wire and cable made in aluminum wire drawing plants
• Bar made by extruding purchased aluminum
• Bar made by rolling purchased aluminum
• Bar, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills
• Bar, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and rolling mills
• Coaxial cable made in aluminum wire drawing plants
• Communications wire or cable made in aluminum wire drawing plants
• Cord sets, flexible, made in aluminum wire drawing plants
• Energy wire or cable made in aluminum wire drawing plants
• Extrusion billet made by rolling purchased aluminum
• Extrusion billet, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and rolling mills
• Extrusion ingot made by rolling purchased aluminum
• Extrusion ingot, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and rolling mills
• Ingot made by rolling purchased aluminum
• Ingot, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and rolling mills
• Insulated wire or cable made in aluminum wire drawing plants
• Magnet wire, insulated, made in aluminum wire drawing plants
• Mesh, wire, made in aluminum wire drawing plants
• Nails, aluminum, made in wire drawing plants
• Pipe made by extruding purchased aluminum
• Pipe, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills
• Rails made by rolling or drawing purchased aluminum
• Rails, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and drawing plants
• Rails, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and rolling mills
• Rod made by extruding purchased aluminum
• Rod made by rolling purchased aluminum
• Rod, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills
• Rod, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and rolling mills
• Shipboard cable made in aluminum wire drawing plants
• Signal and control cable made in aluminum wire drawing plants
• Structural shapes made by rolling purchased aluminum
• Structural shapes, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and rolling mills
• Tube blooms made by extruding purchased aluminum
• Tube blooms, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills
• Tube made by drawing or extruding purchased aluminum
• Tube, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and drawing plants
• Tube, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills
• Weatherproof wire or cable made in aluminum wire drawing plants
• Wire cloth made in aluminum wire drawing plants
• Wire screening, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and drawing plants
• Wire, armored, made in aluminum wire drawing plants
• Wire, bare, made in aluminum wire drawing plants
• Wire, insulated, made in aluminum wire drawing plants

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 331318

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 331318, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed 750 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: 2420, 2599, 2732), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 24200Manufacture of tubes, pipes, hollow profiles and related fittings, of steelUK SIC
• 25990Manufacture of other fabricated metal products n.e.c.UK SIC
• 27320Manufacture of other electronic and electric wires and cablesUK SIC

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

Similar codes to compare

• 331313Alumina Refining and Primary Aluminum Production
• 331314Secondary Smelting and Alloying of Aluminum
• 331315Aluminum Sheet, Plate, and Foil Manufacturing