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US Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code Lookup

Division: D - Manufacturing

US-SIC Code 3531 - Construction Machinery and Equipment

Industry Description

Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing heavy machinery and equipment of a type used primarily by the construction industries, such as bulldozers; concrete mixers; cranes, except industrial plant overhead and truck-type cranes; dredging machinery; pavers; and power shovels. Also included in this industry are establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing forestry equipment and certain specialized equipment, not elsewhere classified, similar to that used by the construction industries, such as elevating platforms, ship cranes and capstans, aerial work platforms, and automobile wrecker hoists. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing mining equipment are classified in Industry 3532; those manufacturing well-drilling machinery are classified in Industry 3533; those manufacturing industrial plant overhead traveling cranes are classified in Industry 3536; and those manufacturing industrial truck-type cranes are classified in Industry 3537.

Business Examples

Common types of business activities within US SIC 3531 - Construction Machinery and Equipment are:

  • Aerial work platforms, hydraulic or electric truck or carrier mounted
  • Aggregate spreaders
  • Asphalt plants, including travel-mix type
  • Automobile wrecker hoists
  • Backfillers, self-propelled
  • Backhoes
  • Ballast distributors (railway track equipment)
  • Batching plants, bituminous
  • Batching plants, for aggregate concrete and bulk cement
  • Blades for graders, scrapers, dozers, and snowplows
  • Breakers, paving
  • Buckets, excavating: e.g., clamshell, concrete, dragline, drag scraper,
  • Bulldozers, construction
  • Cab, construction machinery
  • Capstans, ship
  • Carriers, crane
  • Chip spreaders, self-propelled
  • Chippers, commercial: brush, limb, and log
  • Concrete buggies, powered
  • Concrete grouting equipment
  • Concrete gunning equipment
  • Concrete plants
  • Construction machinery, except mining
  • Cranes, construction
  • Cranes, except industrial plant
  • Crushers, mineral: portable
  • Derricks, except oil and gas field
  • Distributors (construction machinery)
  • Ditchers, ladder: vertical boom or wheel
  • Dozers, tractor mounted: material moving
  • Draglines, powered
  • Drags, road (construction and road maintenance equipment)
  • Dredging machinery
  • Excavators: e.g., cable, clamshell, crane, derrick, dragline, power
  • Extractors, piling
  • Finishers and spreaders, construction
  • Finishers, concrete and bituminous: powered
  • Grader attachments, elevating
  • Graders, road (construction machinery)
  • Grapples: rock, wood, etc.
  • Grinders, stone: portable
  • Hammer mills (rock and ore crushing machines), portable
  • Hammers, pile driving
  • Line markers, self-propelled
  • Locomotive cranes
  • Log splitters
  • Logging equipment
  • Mixers: e.g., concrete, ore, sand, slag, plaster, mortar, bituminous
  • Mortar mixers
  • Mud jacks
  • Pavers
  • Pile driving equipment
  • Planers, bituminous
  • Plaster mixers
  • Plows, construction: excavating and grading
  • Post hole diggers, powered
  • Power cranes, draglines, and shovels
  • Pulverizers, stone: portable
  • Railway track equipment: e.g., rail layers, ballast distributors
  • Rakes, land clearing: mechanical
  • Road construction and maintenance machinery
  • Rock crushing machinery, portable
  • Rollers, road
  • Rollers, sheepsfoot and vibratory
  • Sand mixers
  • Scarifiers, road
  • Scrapers, construction
  • Screeds and screeding machines
  • Screeners, portable
  • Ship cranes and derricks
  • Ship winches
  • Shovel loaders
  • Shovels, power
  • Silos, cement (batch plant)
  • Slag mixers
  • Snowplow attachments
  • Soil compactors: vibratory
  • Spreaders and finishers, construction
  • Subgraders, construction equipment
  • Subsoiler attachments, tractor-mounts
  • Surfacers, concrete grinding
  • Tampers, powered
  • Tamping equipment, rail
  • Teeth, bucket and scarifier
  • Tractors, construction
  • Tractors, crawler
  • Tractors, tracklaying
  • Trenching machines
  • Trucks, off-highway
  • Vibrators for concrete construction
  • Wellpoint systems
  • Winches, all types
  • Work platforms, elevated

IBISWorld Industry Research Report

Construction Machinery Manufacturing in the US (33312)

Revenue 2025

$48.5bn

Growth 2025

0.80%

Key Trends

  • A strong US dollar and tariffs on steel imports have made US-produced machinery less attractive abroad

  • Historically low interest rates made construction projects attractive

  • The Infrastructure and Jobs Act will support manufacturers that produce graders and mixers

Products and Services

US-SIC Hierarchy 3531 - Construction Machinery and Equipment

US-SIC Code 3531 - Construction Machinery and Equipment sits in the 2-digit Construction Machinery and Equipment sector. US SIC codes can be 2 to 8 digits and the further along the hierarchy, the more detailed and specific the category will be.

Division: D

Division Title: Manufacturing

2 Digits 3 Digits 4 Digits

Extended US-SIC Hierarchy for 3531 - Construction Machinery and Equipment

For business marketing and targeting, US SIC Codes have been extended to provide more specific classifications within US-SIC 3531 - Construction Machinery and Equipment. Extended US SIC Codes are being continuously updated to reflect the current business environment.

6 Digit SIC Codes

  • 353101 Machinery-manufacturers
  • 353104 Construction equipment-manufacturers
  • 353105 Contractors-equipment-manufacturers
  • 353106 Sandblasting equipment & supplies-mfrs
  • 353107 Pile driving equipment (manufacturers)
  • 353108 Street cleaning equipment (mfrs)
  • 353109 Cranes-manufacturers
  • 353110 Concrete breaking cutting equipment-mfrs
  • 353111 Concrete mixers-manufacturers
  • 353113 Prestressing equip & materials (mfrs)
  • 353114 Paving equipment-manufacturers
  • 353116 Insulation applying machinery (mfrs)
  • 353117 Scrap processing equipment (mfrs)
  • 353118 Piling contractors' equipment (mfrs)
  • 353119 Pipe pushing equipment (manufacturers)
  • 353120 Batching equipment (manufacturers)
  • 353121 Ship building equip & supplies (mfrs)
  • 353122 Shovels-power (manufacturers)
  • 353123 Stripers-mechanical-manufacturers
  • 353124 Dredging machinery-mfrs
  • 353198 Construction machinery & equip (mfrs)

8 Digit SIC Codes

  • 35310000 Construction machinery
  • 35310100 Forestry related equipment
  • 35310101 Chippers: brush, limb, and log
  • 35310102 Log splitters
  • 35310103 Logging equipment
  • 35310200 Marine related equipment
  • 35310201 Capstans, ship
  • 35310202 Cranes, ship
  • 35310203 Ship winches
  • 35310300 Railroad related equipment
  • 35310301 Ballast distributors
  • 35310302 Cranes, locomotive
  • 35310303 Laying equipment, rail
  • 35310304 Railway track equipment
  • 35310400 Bituminous, cement and concrete related products and equip.
  • 35310401 Asphalt plant, including gravel-mix type
  • 35310402 Batching plants, for aggregate concrete and bulk cement
  • 35310403 Bituminous batching plants
  • 35310404 Cement silos (batch plant)
  • 35310405 Concrete buggies, powered
  • 35310406 Concrete grouting equipment
  • 35310407 Concrete gunning equipment
  • 35310408 Concrete plants
  • 35310409 Finishers, concrete and bituminous: powered
  • 35310410 Mixers, bituminous
  • 35310411 Mixers, concrete
  • 35310412 Pavers
  • 35310413 Paving breakers
  • 35310414 Planers, bituminous
  • 35310415 Screeds and screeding machines
  • 35310416 Surfacers, concrete grinding
  • 35310417 Vibrators for concrete construction
  • 35310500 Scrapers, graders, rollers, and similar equipment
  • 35310501 Backfillers, self-propelled
  • 35310502 Finishers and spreaders (construction equipment)
  • 35310503 Graders, road (construction machinery)
  • 35310504 Ladder ditchers, vertical boom or wheel
  • 35310505 Line markers, self-propelled
  • 35310506 Pile drivers (construction machinery)
  • 35310507 Piling extractors
  • 35310508 Rollers, road: steam or other power
  • 35310509 Rollers, sheepsfoot and vibratory
  • 35310510 Scarifiers, road
  • 35310511 Scrapers (construction machinery)
  • 35310512 Tampers, powered
  • 35310600 Backhoes, tractors, cranes, plows, and similar equipment
  • 35310601 Backhoes
  • 35310602 Bulldozers (construction machinery)
  • 35310603 Crane carriers
  • 35310604 Cranes, nec
  • 35310605 Dozers, tractor mounted: material moving
  • 35310606 Draglines, powered
  • 35310607 Dredging machinery
  • 35310608 Entrenching machines
  • 35310609 Excavators: cable, clamshell, crane, derrick, dragline, etc.
  • 35310610 Loaders, shovel: self-propelled
  • 35310611 Shovel loaders
  • 35310612 Shovels, power
  • 35310613 Subgraders (construction equipment)
  • 35310614 Tractors, construction
  • 35310615 Tractors, crawler
  • 35310616 Tractors, tracklaying
  • 35310617 Trucks, off-highway
  • 35310618 Tunneling machinery
  • 35310700 Crushers, grinders, and similar equipment
  • 35310701 Crushers, portable
  • 35310702 Grinders, stone: portable
  • 35310703 Hammer mills (rock and ore crushing machines), portable
  • 35310704 Mixers, nec: ore, plaster, slag, sand, mortar, etc.
  • 35310705 Posthole diggers, powered
  • 35310706 Rock crushing machinery, portable
  • 35310707 Screeners, portable
  • 35310708 Soil compactors: vibratory
  • 35310709 Stone pulverizers, portable
  • 35310800 Construction machinery attachments
  • 35310801 Aggregate spreaders
  • 35310802 Backhoe mounted, hydraulically powered attachments
  • 35310803 Blades for graders, scrapers, dozers, and snow plows
  • 35310804 Bucket or scarifier teeth
  • 35310805 Buckets, excavating: clamshell, concrete, dragline, etc.
  • 35310806 Cabs, for construction machinery
  • 35310807 Drags, road (construction and road maintenance equipment)
  • 35310808 Grader attachments, elevating
  • 35310809 Grapples: rock, wood, etc.
  • 35310810 Plows: construction, excavating, and grading
  • 35310811 Rakes, land clearing: mechanical
  • 35310812 Snow plow attachments
  • 35310813 Subsoiler attachments, tractor mounted
  • 35310814 Winches
  • 35319900 Construction machinery, nec
  • 35319901 Aerial work platforms: hydraulic/elec. truck/carrier mounted
  • 35319902 Airport construction machinery
  • 35319903 Automobile wrecker hoists
  • 35319904 Catch basin cleaners
  • 35319905 Chip spreaders, self-propelled
  • 35319906 Derricks, except oil and gas field
  • 35319907 Mud jacks
  • 35319908 Road construction and maintenance machinery
  • 35319909 Roofing equipment
  • 35319910 Wellpoint systems

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Each US SIC Code is part of a Division, which corresponds with a numerical range. Select a Division category from the table below, then drill down to discover the industries within that Division.

Division US-SIC Code Sector title
A 01-09 Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing
B 10-14 Mining
C 15-17 Construction
D 20-39 Manufacturing
E 40-49 Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, and Sanitary Services
F 50-51 Wholesale Trade
G 52-59 Retail Trade
H 60-67 Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate
I 70-89 Services
J 90-99 Public Administration

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