28940 Manufacture of machinery for textile, apparel and leather production

Activities ONS lists under 28940

The ONS index assigns these 117 activities to this code. If one describes your company, this is the code to use.

• Apparel and leather production machinery (manufacture)
• Apparel production machinery (manufacture)
• Automatic stop motions (textile machinery) (manufacture)
• Backing and curling machinery (carpet making) (manufacture)
• Bale breakers (manufacture)
• Beaming machinery (textile) (manufacture)
• Bleaching machinery (textile) (manufacture)
• Blowroom machinery (textile) (manufacture)
• Bobbins for textile machinery (manufacture)
• Card tape reader for textile machinery (manufacture)
• Carders (manufacture)
• Carding machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Carpet making machinery (manufacture)
• Coating machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Comb for textile machinery (manufacture)
• Combing machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Cots (textile machinery accessory) (manufacture)
• Cotton gins (manufacture)
• Cotton spreaders (manufacture)
• Crabbing machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Cropping machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Curing machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Cutting machine for textile fibres (manufacture)
• Cutting machinery for textile fabrics (manufacture)
• Decatising machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• De-sizing machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Dobbies (textile machinery) (manufacture)
• Doubling machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Drawing machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Dry cleaning machinery (manufacture)
• Drying machinery (commercial) for textiles (manufacture)
• Drying machines for laundries or dry cleaners (manufacture)
• Dye cycle controller (textile machinery) (manufacture)
• Dyeing machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Dyesprings (textile machinery accessory) (manufacture)
• Embossing machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Extruding machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Fabric processing machinery (manufacture)
• Faller (textile machinery accessory) (manufacture)
• Felt or non-woven fabric production or finishing machines (manufacture)
• Felts or non-wovens production and finishing machines (manufacture)
• Film reader for textile machinery (manufacture)
• Finishing machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Flatwork machine for laundry (manufacture)
• Footwear making or repairing machinery (manufacture)
• Fusing presses (manufacture)
• Garnetters (manufacture)
• Heald (textile machinery accessory) (manufacture)
• Heat setting machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Hides and skins preparation, tanning, working or repairing machinery (manufacture)
• Hosiery knitting machinery (manufacture)
• Ironing machine for non-domestic use (manufacture)
• Jacquard machinery for carpet making (manufacture)
• Jacquard textile machinery (manufacture)
• Knitting machine (manufacture)
• Knotted net, tulle, lace, braid etc. making machines (manufacture)
• Laundry machinery (manufacture)
• Leather working machine (manufacture)
• Loom (manufacture)
• Loom winder (manufacture)
• Man-made textile fibre or yarn producing machinery (manufacture)
• Mercerising machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Milling machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Needles for sewing machines (manufacture)
• Pirns (textile machinery accessory) (manufacture)
• Plaiting machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Printing machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Programmer for textile machinery (manufacture)
• Raising machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Reaching-in machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Reed (textile machinery accessory) (manufacture)
• Reeling machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Rigging machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Ring traveller for textile machinery (manufacture)
• Roller (textile machinery accessory) (manufacture)
• Roving frames (manufacture)
• Scouring machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Sewing machine (manufacture)
• Sewing machine heads (manufacture)
• Shearing machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Shrinking machines for textiles (manufacture)
• Shuttle (textile machinery accessory) (manufacture)
• Shuttle changing machinery (manufacture)
• Singeing machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Sizing machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Slitting machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Sliver can (textile machinery accessory) (manufacture)
• Spindles (textile machinery accessories) (manufacture)
• Spindles and spindle flyers (manufacture)
• Spinning machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Spinning machines (manufacture)
• Spool (textile machinery accessory) (manufacture)
• Spooling machinery for carpet making (manufacture)
• Spotting table (manufacture)
• Steaming machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Stentering machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Teasel rod (textile machinery accessory) (manufacture)
• Textile dressing or impregnating machinery (manufacture)
• Textile fabric making machinery (manufacture)
• Textile fibre preparation machinery (manufacture)
• Textile machinery (manufacture)
• Textile printing machinery (manufacture)
• Textile unreeling, folding, or pinking machinery (manufacture)
• Textile yarn preparation machinery (manufacture)
• Texturing and softening machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Thread guide (textile machinery accessory) (manufacture)
• Tufting machinery for carpet making (manufacture)
• Twisting machinery for textiles (manufacture)
• Warpers for preparing textile yarns (manufacture)
• Warping machinery (manufacture)
• Washing machines (laundry) (manufacture)
• Washing machines (textile) (non-domestic) (manufacture)
• Weaving machinery (looms) (manufacture)
• Weaving machines (manufacture)
• Winding machine for textiles (manufacture)
• Wool carbonisers (manufacture)
• Wool scourers (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 (28.94) 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 28940 until it announces a switch.

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

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