SIC Industry Description

Industry: 5051—Metals Service Centers and Offices
Establishments primarily engaged in marketing semifinished metal products, except precious metals. Establishments in this industry may operate with warehouses (metals service centers) or without warehouses (metals sales offices). Establishments primarily engaged in marketing precious metals are classified in Industry 5094.

Aluminum bars, rods, ingots, sheets, pipes, plates, etc.—wholesalePipe and tubing, steel—wholesale
Anode metal—wholesalePipe, cast iron—wholesale
Bale ties, wire—wholesalePlates, metal—wholesale
Bars, metal—wholesaleRails and accessories—wholesale
Bearing piles, iron and steel—wholesaleReinforcement mesh, wire—wholesale
Black plate, iron and steel—wholesaleRods, metal—wholesale
Castings, rough iron and steel—wholesaleSheets, galvanized or other coated—wholesale
Concrete reinforcing bars—wholesaleSheets, metal—wholesale
Copper sheets, plates, bars, rods, pipes, etc.—wholesaleSteel—wholesale
Ferroalloys—wholesaleStrip, metal—wholesale
Forgings, ferrous—wholesaleStructural shapes, iron and steel—wholesale
Forms, concrete construction steel—wholesaleTerneplate—wholesale
Foundry products—wholesaleTin and tin base metals, shapes, forms, etc.—wholesale
Ingots—wholesaleTin plate bars—wholesale
Iron and steel flat products—wholesaleTin plate—wholesale
Iron and steel semifinished products—wholesaleTrack spikes—wholesale
Lead—wholesaleTubing, metal—wholesale
Mercury—wholesaleWire rods—wholesale
Metals, except precious—wholesaleWire rope or cable, not insulated—wholesale
Nails—wholesaleWire screening—wholesale
Nonferrous metal, except precious e.g. sheets, bars, rods—wholesaleWire, not insulated—wholesale
Pig iron—wholesaleZinc—wholesale
Piling, iron and steel—wholesale
Codes TitlesTotal Marketable US Businesses
5051Metals Service Centers and Offices13,446
505100Metals service centers and offices1,757
50510000Metals service centers and offices1,757
505101Metal wires, ties, cables, and screening634
50510100Metal wires, ties, cables, and screening322
50510101Bale ties, wire11
50510102Cable, wire120
50510103Reinforcement mesh, wire18
50510104Rods, wire (not insulated)4
50510105Rope, wire (not insulated)86
50510106Wire screening8
50510107Wire, nec65
505102Iron and steel (ferrous) products9,445
50510200Iron and steel (ferrous) products882
50510201Bearing piles, iron or steel12
50510202Black plate, iron or steel8
50510203Cast iron pipe37
50510204Castings, rough: iron or steel106
50510205Concrete reinforcing bars22
50510206Ferroalloys35
50510207Ferrous metals93
50510208Forgings, ferrous28
50510209Forms, concrete construction (steel)63
50510210Iron or steel flat products72
50510211Iron or steel semifinished products40
50510212Pig iron8
50510213Piling, iron and steel14
50510214Pipe and tubing, steel829
50510215Rails and accessories41
50510216Steel7,001
50510217Structural shapes, iron or steel138
50510218Terneplate0
50510219Track spikes1
50510220Steel decking15
505103Copper products114
50510300Copper products40
50510301Copper60
50510302Copper sheets, plates, bars, rods, pipes, etc., nec14
505104Miscellaneous nonferrous products311
50510400Miscellaneous nonferrous products116
50510401Anode metal6
50510402Lead61
50510403Mercury2
50510404Nonferrous metal sheets, bars, rods, etc., nec94
50510405Tin and tin base metals, shapes, forms, etc., nec11
50510406Tin plate6
50510408Zinc15
505199Metals service centers and offices, nec1,185
50519901Aluminum bars, rods, ingots, sheets, pipes, plates, etc.470
50519902Bars, metal48
50519903Foundry products118
50519904Ingots7
50519905Nails198
50519906Plates, metal28
50519907Rods, metal17
50519908Sheets, galvanized or other coated18
50519909Sheets, metal163
50519910Strip, metal8
50519911Tubing, metal68
50519912Stampings, metal42