2022 NAICS national industry in sector 31-33 Manufacturing
333310 Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing
NAICS 333310 is the US industry code for commercial and service industry machinery manufacturing. It covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing commercial and service industry machinery, such as optical instruments and lenses (except ophthalmic), photographic and photocopying equipment, automatic vending machinery, commercial laundry and drycleaning machinery, office machinery, automotive maintenance equipment (except mechanics' handtools), and commercial-type cooking equipment.
- Code
- 333310 (2022 NAICS)
- Title
- Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing
- Part of
- Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing
- SBA small business limit
- Up to 1,000 employees
- Closest UK SIC
- 26701, 26702, 27900, 28220 and 3 more (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 commercial and service industry machinery, such as optical instruments and lenses (except ophthalmic), photographic and photocopying equipment, automatic vending machinery, commercial laundry and drycleaning machinery, office machinery, automotive maintenance equipment (except mechanics' handtools), and commercial-type cooking equipment.
When to use a different code
Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:
- Manufacturing household-type appliances are classified in Industry Group 3352, Household Appliance Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing and/or assembling electronic computers are classified in U.S. Industry 334111, Electronic Computer Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing computer terminals and other computer peripheral equipment (except storage devices), including point-of-sale terminals and automated teller machines (ATMs) are classified in U.S. Industry 334118, Computer Terminal and Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing facsimile equipment are classified in Industry 334210, Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing radio and television broadcast equipment are classified in Industry 334220, Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing electron and proton microscopes are classified in U.S. Industry 334516, Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing time clocks and time stamps are classified in U.S. Industry 334519, Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing sensitized film, paper, cloth, and plates, toners, and prepared photographic chemicals are classified in U.S. Industry 325992, Photographic Film, Paper, Plate, Chemical, and Copy Toner Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing pencil sharpeners and staplers are classified in Industry 339940, Office Supplies (except Paper) Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing coin- or card-operated arcade games are classified in U.S. Industry 339999, All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing mechanics' handtools are classified in U.S. Industry 332216, Saw Blade and Handtool Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing ophthalmic focus lenses are classified in U.S. Industry 339115, Ophthalmic Goods Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing molded plastics lens blanks are classified in U.S. Industry 326199, All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing molded glass lens blanks are classified in U.S. Industry 327212, Other Pressed and Blown Glass and Glassware Manufacturing.
Activities listed under 333310
The Census index assigns these 150 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.
- Adding machines manufacturing
- Aerial cameras manufacturing
- Alignment equipment, motor vehicle, manufacturing
- Balancing equipment, motor vehicle, manufacturing
- Beauty and barber shop equipment (except chairs) manufacturing
- Binding equipment (i.e., plastics or tape binding), office-type, manufacturing
- Binoculars manufacturing
- Blueprint equipment manufacturing
- Brake service equipment (except mechanic's handtools), motor vehicle, manufacturing
- Bundling machinery (e.g., box strapping, mail, newspaper) manufacturing
- Calculators manufacturing
- Camera lenses manufacturing
- Cameras (except television, video) manufacturing
- Canceling machinery, postal office-type, manufacturing
- Car washing machinery manufacturing
- Carnival and amusement park rides manufacturing
- Carnival and amusement park shooting gallery machinery manufacturing
- Carousels (i.e., merry-go-rounds) manufacturing
- Carpet and floor cleaning equipment, electric commercial-type, manufacturing
- Carpet sweepers, mechanical, manufacturing
- Cash registers (except point of sales terminals) manufacturing
- Central vacuuming systems, commercial-type, manufacturing
- Change making machines manufacturing
- Check writing machines manufacturing
- Cigarette vending machines manufacturing
- Coffee makers and urns, commercial-type, manufacturing
- Coin counting machinery manufacturing
- Coin- or card-operated vending machines manufacturing
- Coin wrapping machines manufacturing
- Collating machinery, office-type, manufacturing
- Comparators, optical, manufacturing
- Cooking equipment (i.e., fryers, microwave ovens, ovens, ranges), commercial-type, manufacturing
- Corn popping machines, commercial-type, manufacturing
- Currency counting machinery manufacturing
- Deep-fat fryers, commercial-type, manufacturing
- Densitometers (except laboratory analytical) manufacturing
- Developing equipment, film, manufacturing
- Dictating machines manufacturing
- Digital cameras manufacturing
- Dishwashing machines, commercial-type, manufacturing
- Driers, photographic, manufacturing
- Drycleaning equipment and machinery manufacturing
- Dryers, laundry (except household-type), manufacturing
- Editing equipment, motion picture (e.g., rewinders, splicers, titlers, viewers), manufacturing
- Enlargers, photographic, manufacturing
- Envelope stuffing, sealing, and addressing machinery manufacturing
- Exposure meters, photographic, manufacturing
- Ferris wheels manufacturing
- Film developing equipment manufacturing
- Flash apparatus, photographic, manufacturing
- Flight simulation machinery manufacturing
- Floor sanding, washing, and polishing machines, commercial-type, manufacturing
- Food warming equipment, commercial-type, manufacturing
- Frame and body alignment equipment, motor vehicle, manufacturing
- Garbage disposal units, commercial-type, manufacturing
- Gas ranges, commercial-type, manufacturing
- Gauges, machinist's precision tool, optical, manufacturing
- Glasses, field or opera, manufacturing
- Gratings, diffraction, manufacturing
- Gun sighting and fire control equipment and instruments, optical, manufacturing
- Gun sights, optical, manufacturing
- Hair dryers, beauty parlor-type, manufacturing
- Holepunchers (except hand operated), office-type, manufacturing
- Hot beverage vending machines manufacturing
- Hotplates, commercial-type, manufacturing
- Ice cream vending machines manufacturing
- Incoming mail handling equipment (e.g., opening, scanning, sorting) manufacturing
- Instrument lenses manufacturing
- Interferometers manufacturing
- Laboratory analytical optical instruments (e.g., microscopes) manufacturing
- Laundry extractors manufacturing
- Laundry machinery and equipment (except household-type) manufacturing
- Laundry pressing machines (except household-type) manufacturing
- Lens coating (except ophthalmic)
- Lens grinding (except ophthalmic)
- Lens hoods, camera, manufacturing
- Lens mounting (except ophthalmic)
- Lens polishing (except ophthalmic)
- Lenses (except ophthalmic) manufacturing
- Letter folding, stuffing, and sealing machinery manufacturing
- Light meters, photographic, manufacturing
- Locks, coin- or card-operated, manufacturing
- Loupes (e.g., jewelers) manufacturing
- Magnifying glasses (except corrective vision-type) manufacturing
- Magnifying instruments, optical, manufacturing
- Mail handling machinery, post office-type, manufacturing
- Mechanisms for coin- or card-operated machines manufacturing
- Microfiche equipment (e.g., cameras, projectors, readers) manufacturing
- Microfilm equipment (e.g., cameras, projectors, readers) manufacturing
- Microscopes (except electron, proton) manufacturing
- Microwave ovens, commercial-type, manufacturing
- Mirrors, optical, manufacturing
- Mop wringers manufacturing
- Motion picture cameras manufacturing
- Motion picture theater projectors manufacturing
- Night vision optical devices manufacturing
- Oil water separators manufacturing
- Optical alignment and display instruments manufacturing
- Optical gun sighting and fire control equipment and instruments manufacturing
- Optical test and inspection equipment manufacturing
- Ovens, commercial-type, manufacturing
- Overhead projectors (except computer peripheral) manufacturing
- Ozone machines for water purification manufacturing
- Periscopes manufacturing
- Photocopying machines manufacturing
- Photoflash equipment manufacturing
- Photographic equipment manufacturing
- Photographic lenses manufacturing
- Postage meters manufacturing
- Postage stamp vending machines manufacturing
- Power washer cleaning equipment manufacturing
- Prisms, optical, manufacturing
- Projection equipment (e.g., motion picture, slide), photographic, manufacturing
- Projection lenses manufacturing
- Projection screens (i.e., motion picture, overhead, slide) manufacturing
- Range finders, photographic, manufacturing
- Ranges, commercial-type, manufacturing
- Readers, microfilm or microfiche, manufacturing
- Reflectors, optical, manufacturing
- Sanding machines, floor, manufacturing
- Screens, projection (i.e., motion picture, overhead, slide), manufacturing
- Sensitometers, photographic, manufacturing
- Sewage treatment equipment manufacturing
- Sights, telescopic, manufacturing
- Snack and confection vending machines manufacturing
- Soft drink vending machines manufacturing
- Steam cookers, commercial-type, manufacturing
- Steam tables manufacturing
- Stenography machinery manufacturing
- Stoves, commercial-type, manufacturing
- Swimming pool filter systems manufacturing
- Tanks, photographic developing, fixing, and washing, manufacturing
- Teaching machines (e.g., flight simulators) manufacturing
- Telescopes manufacturing
- Theodolites manufacturing
- Tire mounting machines, motor vehicle, manufacturing
- Trash and garbage compactors, commercial-type, manufacturing
- Trays, photographic printing and processing, manufacturing
- Tripods, camera and projector, manufacturing
- Typewriters manufacturing
- Vacuum cleaners, industrial and commercial-type, manufacturing
- Vending machines manufacturing
- Voting machines manufacturing
- Wash water recycling machinery manufacturing
- Washing machines, laundry (except household-type), manufacturing
- Water heaters (except boilers), commercial-type, manufacturing
- Water purification equipment manufacturing
- Water softening equipment manufacturing
- Water treatment equipment manufacturing
- Word processing equipment, dedicated, manufacturing
SBA size standard for 333310
To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 333310, 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: 2670, 2817, 2790, 2819, 2822, 2825, 2826, 2829, 3030, 3290), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.
- 26701Manufacture of optical precision instrumentsUK SIC
- 26702Manufacture of photographic and cinematographic equipmentUK SIC
- 27900Manufacture of other electrical equipmentUK SIC
- 28220Manufacture of lifting and handling equipmentUK SIC
- 28250Manufacture of non-domestic cooling and ventilation equipmentUK SIC
- 28290Manufacture of other general-purpose machinery n.e.c.UK SIC
- 30300Manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machineryUK 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.