SIC 3675 Electronic Capacitors

Encyclopedia of American Industries | 2005 | Copyright

SIC 3675
ELECTRONIC CAPACITORS

This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing electronic capacitors. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing electrical capacitors are classified in SIC 3629: Electrical Industrial Apparatus, Not Elsewhere Classified.

NAICS Code(s)

334414 (Electronic Capacitor Manufacturing)

Industry Snapshot

The value of shipments in the electronic capacitors industry in 2001 was $1.9 billion, down from $2.8 billion in 2000 and $2.0 billion in 1999. There were about 99 establishments in the industry in 2001, down from 128 in 1997. In recent years, about 75 percent of the industry's firms employed 20 or more workers.

Employment of production workers in the industry increased from 13,500 in 1991 to 21,200 by 1995 but dropped to 13,611 in 1997 and 12,979 in 2000. The industry was relatively labor intensive, having more than 40 percent as much investment per production worker as that for the manufacturing sector as a whole in recent years. Annual hourly wages for production workers in the industry were about 18.5 percent lower than the average manufacturing wage in 2000. That year, production workers earned an average of about $12.33 per hour, up from $11.06 per hour in 1997.

Organization and Structure

The U.S. capacitor market was dominated by foreign-owned subsidiaries in the early 2000s. For example, in 2003 Japanese firms owned two of the industry's leaders, the AVX Corporation and Murata Electronics North America, Inc.

By the late 1990s, California, New York, Massachusetts, Florida, North Carolina, and New Jersey accounted for roughly 33 percent of total industry employment, some 26 percent of total shipments, and almost half of all establishments for the industry in the United States. Two of the industry's top firms, AVX and the KEMET Corp., were based in South Carolina.

Based on quantities reported by the U.S. Census Bureau in Current Industrial Reports, the top four types of capacitors by product share in 2001 were those made from ceramic, at 98.2 percent; tantalum, at 9.5 percent; aluminum, at 3.1 percent; and paper and film, at 1.6 percent. The share of ceramic capacitors increased from 39 percent in 1983, whereas the share of paper and film and aluminum capacitors declined from 19 and 13 percent, respectively. The share of tantalum capacitors held steadily during the 1990s. Ceramic dielectric single layer chips were by far the largest single type of capacitor in 2001, representing 97.6 percent of all capacitors by reported quantity.

Among the largest of the several trade organizations serving the industry were the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) of Arlington, Virginia and the American Electronics Association (AEA) of Santa Clara, California. EIA was founded in 1924 and had 2,500 members in the early 2000s. The...

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