These statistics are for the Soaps and cleaning compounds industry, based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 32561.
| Year | Establishments | Shipments ($ millions) | Employment | Imports ($ millions) | Exports ($ millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | |||||
| 2003 | 232 | 1 801 | 6 274 | 1 653 | 666 |
| 2004 | 364 | 1 675 | 5 585 | 1 805 | 779 |
| 2005 | 379 | 1 490 | 5 669 | 1 743 | 759 |
| 2006 | 344 | 1 551 | 5 389 | 1 819 | 795 |
| 2007 | 370 | 1 612 | 5 658 | 1 848 | 734 |
| 2008 | 338 | 1 684 | 5 751 | 2 049 | 755 |
| 2009 | 318* | 1 668 | 5 920 | 2 253 | 783 |
| 2010 | 318Footnote * | 1,490Footnote * | 5,120Footnote * | 2 183 | 769 |
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing soap and other cleaning compounds.
Exclusion(s): Establishments primarily engaged in:
- manufacturing industrial bleaches (32518, Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing)
- manufacturing shampoos and shaving preparations (32562, Toilet Preparation Manufacturing)
Examples:
- Air fresheners
- Ammonia, household type
- Assistants, textile and leather finishing
- Automobile polishes and cleaners
- Bleaches, formulated for household use
- Brass polishes
- Cleaners, household type
- Cleaning and polishing preparations
- Cloths, dusting and polishing, chemically treated
- Dentifrices
- Deodorants (except personal)
- Detergents
- Dishwasher detergents
- Disinfectants, household type and industrial
- Drain pipe cleaners
- Drycleaning preparations
- Dusting cloths, chemically treated
- Emulsifiers (surface active agents)
- Fabric softeners
- Finishing agents, textile and leather
- Floor polishes and waxes
- Furniture polishes and waxes
- Hand soaps (hard, liquid, soft)
- Laundry bleaches, formulated for household use
- Laundry soap, chips and powder
- Leather finishing assistants
- Metal polishes (for example, tarnish removers)
- Mordants
- Oils, soluble (for example, textile finishing assistants)
- Oven cleaners
- Penetrants
- Polishes (for example, automobile, furniture, metal, shoe)
- Polishing preparations
- Recycling drycleaning fluids
- Rug cleaning preparations
- Rust removers
- Scouring cleansers (for example, pastes, powders)
- Shoe polishes and cleaners
- Silver polishes
- Soaps (for example, bar, chip, powder)
- Spot removers (except laundry presoaks)
- Starches, laundry
- Surface active agents
- Textile finishing assistants
- Textile scouring agents
- Toilet bowl cleaners
- Toothpastes, gels and tooth powders
- Tub and tile cleaning preparations
- Waxes, polishing (for example, floor, furniture)
- Wetting agents
- Window cleaning preparations