16100 Sawmilling and planing of wood

Activities ONS lists under 16100

The ONS index assigns these 43 activities to this code. If one describes your company, this is the code to use.

• Bargeboard (manufacture)
• Beaded wood (manufacture)
• Bent timber (manufacture)
• Chamfered wood (manufacture)
• Drying of timber (manufacture)
• Flooring made of wood (unassembled) (manufacture)
• Grooved wood (manufacture)
• Immersion treatment of wood (manufacture)
• Log sawing (manufacture)
• Log slicing, peeling or chipping (manufacture)
• Mining timber (sawn) (manufacture)
• Plank (manufacture)
• Pressure treatment of wood (manufacture)
• Railway sleepers made of wood (manufacture)
• Rebated wood (manufacture)
• Sawmilling (manufacture)
• Sawn fencing (manufacture)
• Skirting boards made of unmoulded wood (manufacture)
• Sleepers made of wood (manufacture)
• Split poles, pickets and other similar products (manufacture)
• Telegraph poles (manufacture)
• Tongued wood (manufacture)
• Vacuum treatment of wood (manufacture)
• Veneer log sawing (manufacture)
• V-jointed wood (manufacture)
• Wagon timber (sawn) (manufacture)
• Weatherboard (manufacture)
• Wood chip (manufacture)
• Wood creosoting, impregnation, preservation, spraying, varnishing and drying (manufacture)
• Wood drying (manufacture)
• Wood flour (manufacture)
• Wood grooving, milling, planing, sawing etc. (manufacture)
• Wood impregnation (manufacture)
• Wood machining (manufacture)
• Wood mill (manufacture)
• Wood particles (manufacture)
• Wood planing (manufacture)
• Wood preservation (manufacture)
• Wood sawing (manufacture)
• Wood shavings (manufacture)
• Wood spraying (manufacture)
• Wood varnishing (manufacture)
• Wood wool (manufacture)

Source: ONS UK SIC 2007 alphabetical index.

What changes in SIC 2026

ONS published UK SIC 2026 in 2026. Its correspondence table maps this code's class (16.10) to:

"1:1" means the class carries over unchanged in scope; other link types mean it was split or merged. Companies House still uses SIC 2007, so keep filing with 16100 until it announces a switch.

Source: ONS correspondence table, SIC 2007 to SIC 2026.

Closest US NAICS codes

Matched through the shared international class (ISIC Rev. 4). Treat these as a starting point and read the definition before using one.

• 113310LoggingNAICS
• 321113SawmillsNAICS
• 321114Wood PreservationNAICS
• 321912Cut Stock, Resawing Lumber, and PlaningNAICS
• 321918Other Millwork (including Flooring)NAICS
• 321999All Other Miscellaneous Wood Product ManufacturingNAICS