SIC Industry Description

Industry: 2421—Sawmills and Planing Mills, General
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)Lumber: rough, sawed, or planed
Ceiling lumber, dressedPlaning mills, independent: except millwork
Chipper millsResawing lumber into smaller dimensions
Custom sawmillsSawdust and shavings
Cut stock, softwoodSawmills, except special product mills
Flitches (veneer stock), made in sawmillsSiding, dressed lumber
Flooring (dressed lumber), softwoodSilo stock, wood: sawed
Fuelwood, from mill wasteSnow fence lath
Furniture dimension stock, softwoodStud mills
Kiln drying of lumberTies, railroad: sawed
Lath, made in sawmills and lathmillsTobacco hogshead stock
Lumber stacking or stickingWood chips produced at mill
Codes TitlesTotal Marketable US Businesses
2421Sawmills and Planing Mills, General3,302
242100Sawmills and planing mills, general1,817
24210000Sawmills and planing mills, general1,817
242101Building and structural materials, wood240
24210100Building and structural materials, wood196
24210101Cants, resawed (lumber)8
24210102Ceiling lumber, dressed3
24210103Flooring (dressed lumber), softwood20
24210104Lath, made in sawmills and lathmills3
24210105Siding (dressed lumber)7
24210106Silo stock, wood: sawed3
242102Sawdust, shavings, and wood chips166
24210200Sawdust, shavings, and wood chips34
24210201Fuelwood, from mill waste14
24210202Sawdust and shavings39
24210203Wood chips, produced at mill79
242103Specialty sawmill products207
24210300Specialty sawmill products33
24210301Custom sawmill105
24210302Flitches (veneer stock), made in sawmills1
24210303Kiln drying of lumber68
242104Outdoor wood structural products89
24210400Outdoor wood structural products64
24210401Railroad ties, sawed22
24210402Snow fence lath1
24210403Tobacco hogshead stock2
242199Sawmills and planing mills, general, nec783
24219901Box lumber9
24219902Chipper mill34
24219903Cut stock, softwood10
24219904Furniture dimension stock, softwood17
24219905Lumber stacking or sticking10
24219906Lumber: rough, sawed, or planed615
24219907Planing mill, independent: except millwork11
24219908Planing mills, nec32
24219909Resawing lumber into smaller dimensions45