Definition
Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing (NAICS 33911)

Under this topic you will find the North American Industry Classification System definition of the Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing (NAICS 33911) 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.

Change NAICS Level…3391 > Medical Equipment and Supplies ManufacturingIn this section of CIS there is no data available at lower levels of detail.
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Definition of the Industry

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing medical equipment and supplies. Establishments primarily engaged in grinding eyeglasses and hard contact lenses to prescription, on a factory basis, are included.

Example Activities:

• Abrasive points, wheels and disks, dental, manufacturing
• Adhesive tape, medical, manufacturing
• Bandages and dressings, surgical and orthopedic, manufacturing
• Blood transfusion equipment, manufacturing
• Bridges, custom made in dental laboratories
• Catheters, manufacturing
• Contact lenses, manufacturing
• Cotton and cotton balls, absorbent, manufacturing
• Dental chairs, manufacturing
• Dental equipment and instruments, manufacturing
• Dental furniture, manufacturing
• Dental glues and cements, manufacturing
• Dental laboratories
• Dental wax, manufacturing
• Denture materials, manufacturing
• Dentures, custom made in dental laboratories
• Ear stoppers (noise protectors), manufacturing
• Eyeglass frames and parts, manufacturing
• Eyeglasses, lenses and frames, manufacturing
• First-aid equipment and supplies, manufacturing
• Furniture, hospital (e.g., hospital beds, operating room furniture), manufacturing
• Gauze, surgical, made from purchased fabric
• Gloves (e.g., surgeons', electricians', household), rubber, manufacturing
• Glue, dental, manufacturing
• Gut sutures, surgical, manufacturing
• Hard hats manufacturing
• Hospital furniture (e.g., hospital beds, operating room furniture), manufacturing
• Hypodermic needles and syringes, manufacturing
• Lens grinding, ophthalmic (except in retail stores)
• Life preservers, inflatable, manufacturing
• Lifejackets, plastics, manufacturing
• Magnifiers, vision correcting type, manufacturing
• Magnifying glasses, manufacturing
• Medical and related instruments, apparatus and equipment (except electro-medical), manufacturing
• Ophthalmic instruments and apparatus (except laser surgery), manufacturing
• Orthodontic appliances, custom made in dental laboratories
• Orthopedic devices and materials, manufacturing
• Orthopedic extension shoes, manufacturing
• Personal safety devices, not specified elsewhere, manufacturing
• Prosthetic devices, manufacturing
• Protective industrial clothing, manufacturing
• Radiation shielding aprons, gloves and sheeting, manufacturing
• Respiratory protection equipment, personal, manufacturing
• Safety appliances and equipment, personal, manufacturing
• Safety clothing, manufacturing
• Shoes, orthopedic extension, manufacturing
• Splints, manufacturing
• Sunglasses, manufacturing
• Supports, orthopedic (e.g., abdominal, ankle, arch, kneecap), manufacturing
• Surgical bandages (including medicated), manufacturing
• Sutures, manufacturing
• Syringes, hypodermic, manufacturing
• Tape, medical adhesive, manufacturing
• Teeth, custom made in dental laboratories
• Ultrasonic dental equipment, manufacturing
• Ultrasonic medical cleaning equipment, manufacturing
• Wheelchairs, manufacturing

Exclusions

Establishments primarily engaged in:

• manufacturing moulded plastic lens blanks (32619, Other Plastic Product Manufacturing)
• manufacturing moulded glass lens blanks (32721, Glass and Glass Product Manufacturing)
• manufacturing laboratory instruments, x-ray apparatus, and electro-medical apparatus, such as hearing aids (33451, Navigational, Measuring, Medical and Control Instruments Manufacturing)
• retailing prescription eyeglasses and contact lenses made on the premises (44613, Optical Goods Stores)