North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Canada 2017 Version 3.0

• 31-33 - Manufacturing
• 325 - Chemical manufacturing
• 3253 - Pesticide, fertilizer and other agricultural chemical manufacturing
• 32531 - Fertilizer manufacturing

325313 - Chemical fertilizer (except potash) manufacturing^CAN

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing nitrogenous and phosphoric fertilizer materials and mixing these ingredients with other ingredients into fertilizers.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • ammonia (i.e., anhydrous or ammonium hydroxyde), manufacturing
  • ammonium and diammonium phosphates, manufacturing
  • ammonium nitrate, manufacturing
  • ammonium sulphate, manufacturing
  • fertilizers, mixed, made in plants producing nitrogenous or phosphatic fertilizer materials
  • fertilizers, natural organic (except compost), manufacturing
  • nitrogenous fertilizer materials, manufacturing
  • phosphatic fertilizer materials, manufacturing
  • phosphoric acid, manufacturing
  • superphosphates, manufacturing
  • urea, manufacturing

  All examples

• Inclusion(s)

  • manufacturing of phosphoric acid, urea, ammonia and nitric acid, for use as a fertilizer material
  • producing natural organic fertilizers and mixtures (except compost)

• Exclusion(s)

  • compost manufacturing (See 325314 Mixed fertilizer manufacturing)
  • mining potash (See 212396 Potash mining)