SIC 3495 Wire Springs

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SIC 3495
WIRE SPRINGS

This industry consists of establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing wire springs from purchased wire. Establishments primarily engaged in assembling wire bedsprings or seats are classified in the Furniture and Fixtures industries.

NAICS Code(s)

332612 (Wire Spring Manufacturing)

334518 (Watch, Clock, and Part Manufacturing)

Industry Snapshot

In 2000 the value of shipments in the wire springs industry was approximately $2.76 billion, which was extremely close to the 1998 figure of $2.72 billion. The value of precision mechanical wire springs produced by the industry in the late 1990s was slightly over $900 million, and the value of other wire springs was about $1.3 billion. The largest bloc of material consumed by the wire springs industry in the late 1990s was steel wire and wire products valued at nearly $535 million. There were 394 establishments in the industry in the late 1990s, which is close to the mid-1990's figure of 383 but down sharply from the 432 establishments reported in 1982. Of these 394 establishments, 199 had 1 to 19 employees; 147 had 20 to 99 employees; and 48 had 100 or more employees.

Organization and Structure

The capital requirements for the wire springs industry are generally low, with average investment per establishment around 40 percent of that for the manufacturing sector as a whole. "Someone who gets to be a proficient springmaker may decide he doesn't have to be working for someone else anymore. He will go out on his own and get the financing to get started with a few pieces of equipment. This is going to be as constant a thing in the future as it has been in the past," predicted Rich Chud, president of Wesco Spring Co., during a 1998 Springs round table on the future of the spring industry.

Prior to the 1980s, it was rare for firms to cooperate in the production of springs, but this has changed in the last two decades. Firms learned to cooperate on a number of bases. For example, some firms developed expertise in grinding springs at high tolerances, while others developed high levels of efficiency in looping the wire on the ends of springs. Other spring-producing firms found it advantageous to hire these specialty firms for such operations. "We as a small spring company probably couldn't survive if it weren't for other spring companies that we've met through the SMI (Spring Manufacturers Institute) and do work for," Dave Habicht, president of the Kirk-Habicht Co., told the Springs round table....

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