SIC 3081 Unsupported Plastics Film and Sheet

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SIC 3081
UNSUPPORTED PLASTICS FILM AND SHEET

Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing unsupported plastics film and sheet from purchased resins or from resins produced in the same plant are classified in this industry. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing plastics film and sheet for blister and bubble formed packaging are classified in SIC 3089: Plastics Products, Not Elsewhere Classified.

NAICS Code(s)

326113 (Unsupported Plastics Film and Sheet (except Packaging) Manufacturing)

Industry Snapshot

The value of shipments in the plastics film and sheet industry in 2000 was $14.1 billion. About 870 establishments operated in the industry, and 62 percent of these establishments had 20 or more employees. The average firm size as measured by the number of production workers per establishment was 34 percent larger than that for the manufacturing sector as a whole.

The plastics film and sheet industry employed approximately 55,400 workers in 2000, 41,425 of whom were production workers. This was roughly double the number employed in the late 1980s. The industry was highly capital-intensive, and its annual hours and hourly wages for production workers were slightly higher than those in the manufacturing sector at large.

Organization and Structure

The states ranking in the top 10 by value of shipments were, in order of descending value: Massachusetts, Texas, South Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, New Jersey, California, Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. Together, these states accounted for 60 percent of total shipments and 61 percent of total employment for the industry. The average number of employees per establishment varied widely across these states. South Carolina had 10 times as many employees...

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