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 Offices13,087
505100Metals service centers and offices1,262
50510000Metals service centers and offices1,262
505101Metal wires, ties, cables, and screening671
50510100Metal wires, ties, cables, and screening346
50510101Bale ties, wire11
50510102Cable, wire123
50510103Reinforcement mesh, wire18
50510104Rods, wire (not insulated)4
50510105Rope, wire (not insulated)93
50510106Wire screening8
50510107Wire, nec68
505102Iron and steel (ferrous) products9,463
50510200Iron and steel (ferrous) products994
50510201Bearing piles, iron or steel11
50510202Black plate, iron or steel7
50510203Cast iron pipe38
50510204Castings, rough: iron or steel104
50510205Concrete reinforcing bars23
50510206Ferroalloys31
50510207Ferrous metals95
50510208Forgings, ferrous28
50510209Forms, concrete construction (steel)60
50510210Iron or steel flat products66
50510211Iron or steel semifinished products41
50510212Pig iron8
50510213Piling, iron and steel15
50510214Pipe and tubing, steel838
50510215Rails and accessories45
50510216Steel6,899
50510217Structural shapes, iron or steel141
50510218Terneplate0
50510219Track spikes1
50510220Steel decking18
505103Copper products121
50510300Copper products43
50510301Copper63
50510302Copper sheets, plates, bars, rods, pipes, etc., nec15
505104Miscellaneous nonferrous products329
50510400Miscellaneous nonferrous products125
50510401Anode metal7
50510402Lead61
50510403Mercury2
50510404Nonferrous metal sheets, bars, rods, etc., nec98
50510405Tin and tin base metals, shapes, forms, etc., nec12
50510406Tin plate7
50510408Zinc17
505199Metals service centers and offices, nec1,241
50519901Aluminum bars, rods, ingots, sheets, pipes, plates, etc.503
50519902Bars, metal49
50519903Foundry products125
50519904Ingots8
50519905Nails203
50519906Plates, metal29
50519907Rods, metal18
50519908Sheets, galvanized or other coated19
50519909Sheets, metal168
50519910Strip, metal7
50519911Tubing, metal67
50519912Stampings, metal45