FactoryRegistry lists 6,264 facilities whose primary industry classification is one of the 2 industries above. This is a list by industry, not a list of makers: Census reports that establishments in these industries produced gauze, absorbent and packing, in the shares shown above, and does not say which establishments. Where a plant’s own website or a federal registry names what that plant makes, it appears on the plant’s own page with the source named.
The U.S. Census Bureau recorded this product line in 2 US manufacturing industries in the 2022 Economic Census, as the most specific line those industries reported, where 30 establishments reported producing it.
These are counts of establishments by industry: the Economic Census publishes them as industry totals and never as a list of plants.
Part of Manufacturing of surgical appliances and supplies, including surgical gloves, medical and surgical masks, bandages, gauze, cotton (sterile and non-sterile), other surgical dressings, therapeutic appliances, stents, and parts for surgical appliances (exclu
NAPCS collection code 2045880018. Source for the product line, the establishment counts and the shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census (ECNNAPCSIND2022). Federal source data is public domain. Facility records are compiled separately by FactoryRegistry and carry their own sources.
