Manufacturing Part 8

Description

This major group includes establishments engaged in manufacturing industrial and commercial machinery and equipment and computers. Included are the manufacture of engines and turbines; farm and garden machinery; construction, mining, and oil field machinery; elevators and conveying equipment; hoists, cranes, monorails, and industrial trucks and tractors; metalworking machinery; special industry machinery; general industrial machinery; computer and peripheral equipment and office machinery; and refrigeration and service industry machinery. Machines powered by built-in or detachable motors ordinarily are included in this major group, with the exception of electrical household appliances. Power-driven hand tools are included in this major group, whether electric or otherwise driven. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing electrical equipment re classified in Major Group 36, and those manufacturing hand tools, except powered, are classified in Major Group 34.