SIC 2421 Sawmills and Planing Mills, General

SIC Code: 2421

Code Title: Sawmills and Planing Mills, General

Code Division: D - Manufacturing

SIC 2421 Sawmills and Planing Mills, General Description

Establishments primarily engaged in sawing rough lumber and timber from logs and bolts, or resawing cants and flitches into lumber, including box lumber and softwood cut stock; planing mills combined with sawmills; and separately operated planing mills which are engaged primarily in producing surfaced lumber and standard workings or patterns of lumber. This industry includes establishments primarily engaged in sawing lath and railroad ties and in producing tobacco hogshead stock, wood chips, and snow fence lath. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing box shook or boxes are classified in Industry Group 244; those manufacturing Bash, doors, wood molding, window and door frames, and other fabricated millwork are classified in Industry Group 243; and those manufacturing hardwood dimension and flooring are classified in Industry 2426.

  • Cants, resawed (lumber)
  • Ceiling lumber, dressed
  • Chipper mills
  • Custom sawmills
  • Cut stock, softwood
  • Flitches (veneer stock), made in sawmills
  • Flooring (dressed lumber), softwood
  • Fuelwood, from mill waste
  • Furniture dimension stock, softwood
  • Kiln drying of lumber
  • Lath, made in sawmills and lathmills
  • Lumber stacking or sticking
  • Lumber: rough, sawed, or planed
  • Planing mills, independent: except millwork
  • Resawing lumber into smaller dimensions
  • Sawdust and shavings
  • Sawmills, except special product mills
  • Siding, dressed lumber
  • Silo stock, wood: sawed
  • Snow fence lath
  • Stud mills
  • Ties, railroad: sawed
  • Tobacco hogshead stock
  • Wood chips produced at mill


SIC 2421 to NAICS Crosswalk

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