Definition
Synthetic Dye and Pigment Manufacturing (NAICS 32513)

Under this topic you will find the North American Industry Classification System definition of the Synthetic Dye and Pigment Manufacturing (NAICS 32513) industry. You can use this definition to properly identify the segment of the industry you wish to study further in other sections of Canadian Industry Statistics.

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Definition of the Industry

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing synthetic organic and inorganic dyes, pigments, lakes and toners.

Example Activities:

• Antimony based pigments, manufacturing
• Azine dyes, manufacturing
• Azo dyes, manufacturing
• Barytes based pigments, manufacturing
• Black pigments (except carbon, bone and lamp black), manufacturing
• Ceramic colours, manufacturing
• Chrome pigments (i.e., chrome green, chrome orange, chrome yellow), manufacturing
• Colour lakes and toners (i.e., organic pigments), manufacturing
• Colour pigments, inorganic (except bone, carbon and lamp black), manufacturing
• Colour pigments, organic (except animal black, bone black), manufacturing
• Copper based pigments, manufacturing
• Direct dyes, manufacturing
• Disperse dyes, manufacturing
• Dyes, inorganic and synthetic organic, manufacturing
• Ferric oxide pigments, manufacturing
• Fluorescent dyes, manufacturing
• Food colouring, synthetic, manufacturing
• Inorganic pigments (except bone, carbon and lamp black), manufacturing
• Iron based pigments, manufacturing
• Lakes (i.e., organic pigments), manufacturing
• Lead pigments, manufacturing
• Litharge, manufacturing
• Lithopone, manufacturing
• Metallic pigments, inorganic, manufacturing
• Organic pigments, dyes, lakes and toners, manufacturing
• Pearl essence pigment, synthetic, manufacturing
• Pigments (except animal black, bone black), organic, manufacturing
• Pigments (except bone, carbon and lamp black), inorganic, manufacturing
• Stains, biological, manufacturing
• Titanium based pigments, manufacturing
• Toners (except electrostatic, photographic), manufacturing
• White extender pigments (e.g., barytes, blanc fixé, whiting), manufacturing
• Zinc based pigments, manufacturing

Exclusions

Establishments primarily engaged in:

• manufacturing carbon, bone and lamp black (32518, Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing)
• manufacturing wood or coal tar distillation products used as dyeing materials (32519, Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing)
• manufacturing paint (32551, Paint and Coating Manufacturing)
• manufacturing printing ink (32591, Printing Ink Manufacturing)
• manufacturing toners for photocopiers, laser printers and similar electrostatic printing devices (32599, All Other Chemical Product Manufacturing)