Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing Sector ...
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     Industries in the Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing Sub-Section transform metal into intermediate or end products, other than machinery, computers and electronics, and metal furniture or treating metals and metal formed products fabricated elsewhere. Important fabricated metal processes are forging, stamping, bending, forming, and machining, used to shape individual pieces of metal; and other processes, such as welding and assembling, used to join separate parts together. Establishments in this Sub-Section may use one of these processes or a combination of these processes.
The remaining industries, in the Sub-Section, group establishments based on similar combinations of processes used to make products.
     The manufacturing performed in the Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing Sub-Section begins with manufactured metal shapes. The establishments in this sector further fabricate the purchased metal shapes into a product. For instance, the Spring and Wire Product Manufacturing industry starts with wire and fabricates such items.
     Within manufacturing there are other establishments that make the same products made by this Sub-Section; only these establishments begin production further back in the production process. These establishments have a more integrated operation. For instance, one establishment may manufacture steel, draw it into wire, and make wire products in the same establishment. Such operations are classified in the Primary Metal Manufacturing Sub-Section.