Variant of NAICS 1997 - Labour Force Survey (LFS) Industries

• 1 - Goods-Producing Sector
• 6 - Manufacturing
• 31-33 - Manufacturing
• 325 - Chemical Manufacturing
• 3253 - Pesticide, Fertilizer and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing
• 32531 - Fertilizer Manufacturing

325313 - Chemical Fertilizer (except Potash) Manufacturing

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing nitrogenous and phosphoric fertilizer materials and mixing these ingredients with other ingredients into fertilizers. Establishments producing natural organic fertilizers and mixtures (except compost) are included. Establishments engaged in the manufacture of phosphoric acid, urea, ammonia and nitric acid, whether or not for use as a fertilizer material, are also included.

• Exclusion(s):

  Establishments primarily engaged in:

  • mining potash (See 212396 Potash Mining)

• Example Activities:

  • Ammonia, anhydrous or aqueous, manufacturing
  • Ammonium nitrate, manufacturing
  • Ammonium phosphates, manufacturing
  • Ammonium sulfate, manufacturing
  • Anhydrous ammonia, manufacturing
  • Fertilizer materials, nitrogenous and phosphatic, manufacturing
  • Fertilizers, mixed, made in plants producing nitrogenous or phosphatic fertilizer materials
  • Fertilizers, natural organic (except compost), manufacturing
  • Fertilizers, of animal waste origin, manufacturing
  • Fertilizers, of sewage origin, manufacturing
  • Nitric acid, manufacturing
  • Nitrogenous fertilizer materials, manufacturing
  • Phosphatic fertilizer materials, manufacturing
  • Phosphoric acid, manufacturing
  • Superphosphates, manufacturing
  • Urea, manufacturing