All Manufacturing Industries

The manufacturing division includes establishments engaged in the
mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substances into new
products.  These establishments are usually described as plants, factories,
or mills and characteristically use power driven machines and materials
handling equipment.  Establishments engaged in assembling component parts of
manufactured products are also considered manufacturing if the new product
is neither a structure nor other fixed improvement.  Also included is the
blending of materials, such as lubricating oils, plastics resins, or
liquors.

The materials processed by manufacturing establishments include products of
agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, and quarrying as well as products
of other manufacturing establishments.  The new product of a manufacturing
establishment may be finished in the sense that it is ready for utilization
or consumption, or it may be semifinished to become a raw material for an
establishment engaged in further manufacturing.  For example, the product
of the copper smelter is the raw material used in electrolytic refineries;
refined copper is the raw material used by copper wire mills; and copper
wire is the raw material used by certain electrical equipment
manufacturers.

The materials used by manufacturing establishments may be purchased
directly from producers, obtained through customary trade channels, or
secured without recourse to the market by transferring the product from one
establishment to another which is under the same ownership.  Manufacturing
production is usually carried on for the wholesale market, for interplant
transfer, or to order for industrial users, rather than for direct sale to
the domestic consumer.