Printing plates and cylinders, prepared for printing (excluding blank plates and blank cylinders)

4 INDUSTRIES

Industry	Establishments	Share of industry

Withheld means Census suppressed the figure because publishing it would disclose an individual establishment. The line itself is never suppressed — only the numbers on it.

The U.S. Census Bureau recorded this product line in 4 US manufacturing industries in the 2022 Economic Census, as the most specific line those industries reported. At least 85 establishments reported producing it; the count for 1 of those industries was withheld.

These are counts of establishments by industry: the Economic Census publishes them as industry totals and never as a list of plants.

Part of Prepress services (excluding platemaking), including film, assembled flats, color separations, typesetting, imagesetting, etc.

Metal coating, engraving, etching (excluding jewelry and silverware), and allied services to manufacturers, including physical vapor deposition (PVD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), and all other thin film vacuum coating of metals Heat treating of metal for the trade (heat treating, annealing, brazing, shot peening, tempering, etc.)Other chemical contract manufacturing services, performed using materials owned by others (i.e., the customer)Clay, glass, cement, and other nonmetallic minerals products contract manufacturing services, performed using materials owned by others (i.e., the customer)Petroleum and coal product contract manufacturing services, performed using materials owned by others (i.e., the customer)

Industries

Paper Manufacturers Printing Companies Metal Fabricators All product lines

NAPCS collection code 2053410000. 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.