NAICS 32521 Synthetic Resins and Rubbers
These statistics are for the Synthetic resins and rubbers industry, based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 32521.
| Year | Establishments | Shipments ($ millions) |
Employment | Imports ($ millions) |
Exports ($ millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Industry Canada estimates Source: Statistics Canada Note: The step change in establishments observed in 2004 was due to a change by Statistics Canada in the minimum threshold size necessary for inclusion of establishments in the annual data. This change had only a minor impact on other principal statistics. |
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| 2003 | 121 | 7 464 | 7 606 | 5 556 | 5 379 |
| 2004 | 212 | 9 898 | 8 023 | 5 928 | 6 134 |
| 2005 | 165 | 10 145 | 6 884 | 6 610 | 6 834 |
| 2006 | 163 | 10 105 | 6 486 | 6 606 | 7 158 |
| 2007 | 164 | 9 679 | 6 298 | 6 182 | 6 890 |
| 2008 | 161 | 9 614 | 6 515 | 6 427 | 7 094 |
| 2009 | 144 | 6 163 | 5 228 | 4 990 | 4 782 |
| 2010 | 1441 | 6 2201 | 4 5201 | 6 050 | 5 540 |
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing synthetic resins, plastics materials and synthetic rubber from basic organic chemicals.
Exclusion(s): Establishments primarily engaged in:
- manufacturing rubber processing chemicals and plasticizers, whether separate chemical elements or compounds (32519, Other Basic Organic Chemical manufacturing
- manufacturing plastics adhesives (32552, Adhesive manufacturing
- custom compounding of resins produced elsewhere (32599, All Other Chemical Product manufacturing
- processing rubber into intermediate or final products (3262, Rubber Product manufacturing)
Examples:
- Acetal resins, manufacturing
- Acrylate rubber, manufacturing
- Acrylic resins, manufacturing
- Acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) resins, manufacturing
- Alkyd resins, manufacturing
- Amino resins, manufacturing
- Butadiene rubber (for example, polybutadiene), manufacturing
- Butyl rubber, manufacturing
- Chloroprene rubber, manufacturing
- Coal tar resins, manufacturing
- Elastomers (except synthetic rubber), manufacturing
- Elastomers, synthetic rubber, manufacturing
- Epoxy resins, manufacturing
- Ethylene-propylene rubber, manufacturing
- Ethylene-vinyl acetate resins, manufacturing
- Fluoro-polymer resins, manufacturing
- Ion exchange resins, manufacturing
- Ionomer resins, manufacturing
- Isobutylene polymer resins, manufacturing
- Latex rubber, synthetic, manufacturing
- Lignin plastics, manufacturing
- Melamine resins, manufacturing
- Neoprene, manufacturing
- Nitrile rubber, manufacturing
- Nitrocellulose (for example, pyroxylin) resins, manufacturing
- Nylon resins, manufacturing
- Phenolic resins, manufacturing
- Plastics and synthetic resins, regenerating, precipitating and coagulating
- Polyamide resins, manufacturing
- Polyester resins, manufacturing
- Polyethylene resins, manufacturing
- Polyethylene rubber, manufacturing
- Polyethylene terephathalate (PET) resins, manufacturing
- Polyisobutylene resins, manufacturing
- Polyisobutylene rubber, manufacturing
- Polypropylene resins, manufacturing
- Polystyrene resins, manufacturing
- Polysulfide rubber, manufacturing
- Polyurethane resins, manufacturing
- Polyvinyl alcohol resins, manufacturing
- Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins, manufacturing
- Polyvinyl resins, manufacturing
- Propylene resins, manufacturing
- Protein plastics, manufacturing
- Resins, plastics (except custom compounding purchased resins), manufacturing
- Rosin (for example, modified resins), manufacturing
- Rubber, synthetic, manufacturing
- Silicone resins, manufacturing
- Silicone rubber, manufacturing
- Styrene resins, manufacturing
- Synthetic rubber (for example, vulcanizable elastomers), manufacturing
- Thermoplastic resins and plastics materials, manufacturing
- Thermosetting plastics resins, manufacturing
- Thermosetting vulcanizable elastomers, manufacturing
- Urea resins, manufacturing
- Urethane rubber, manufacturing
- Vinyl resins, manufacturing
- Vinylidene resins, manufacturing