25500 Forging, pressing, stamping and roll-forming of metal; powder metallurgy

Activities ONS lists under 25500

The ONS index assigns these 24 activities to this code. If one describes your company, this is the code to use.

• Alloy and steel forging roll (manufacture)
• Closed die forging (manufacture)
• Cold pressing of base metals (manufacture)
• Cold stamping of base metals (manufacture)
• Die forging of ferrous metals (manufacture)
• Drop forging of ferrous metals (manufacture)
• Drop stamping of base non-ferrous metals (manufacture)
• Drop stamping of ferrous metals (manufacture)
• Engineers' stampings and pressings of base non-ferrous metals (manufacture)
• Engineers' stampings and pressings of ferrous metals (manufacture)
• Forging (manufacture)
• Hammer forging of steel (manufacture)
• Heavy forging (manufacture)
• Hot pressing of ferrous metals (manufacture)
• Hot stamping of ferrous metals (manufacture)
• Metal forging, pressing, stamping and roll-forming (manufacture)
• Metal objects production directly from metal powders by heat treatment (manufacture)
• Perforated metal (manufacture)
• Piercing of base metal (manufacture)
• Powder metallurgy (manufacture)
• Pressing of base metal (manufacture)
• Rolls made of alloy or steel forgings (manufacture)
• Sintering of metals (manufacture)
• Stamping of base metal (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 (25.50) 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 25500 until it announces a switch.

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