North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 2002

• 31-33 - Manufacturing
• 311 - Food Manufacturing
• 3112 - Grain and Oilseed Milling
• 31122 - Starch and Vegetable Fat and Oil Manufacturing

311224 - Oilseed Processing^CAN

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in crushing oilseeds and tree nuts and extracting oils. Both edible and inedible products may be produced.

• Exclusion(s):

  Establishments primarily engaged in:

  • manufacturing corn oil by wet corn milling (See 311221 Wet Corn Milling)
  • processing purchased vegetable oils (See 311225 Fat and Oil Refining and Blending)

• Example Activities:

  • Canola oil, cake and meal, made in crushing mills
  • Cooking oil, made in oilseed crushing mills
  • Fats and oils, made in oilseed crushing mills
  • Linseed oil, cake and meal, made in crushing mills
  • Margarine, cooking oil and similar oil and fat products, made in oilseed crushing mills
  • Oil, vegetable, made in oilseed crushing mills
  • Oilseed crushing mills
  • Olive oil, made in crushing mills
  • Peanut oil, cake and meal, made in crushing mills
  • Rapeseed oil, made in crushing mills
  • Shortening, made in oilseed crushing mills
  • Soybean crushing mills
  • Soybean oil, cake and meal, made in crushing mills
  • Sunflower seed oil, cake and meal, made in crushing mills
  • Tree nut oils (e.g., tung, walnut), made in crushing mills
  • Vegetable oils, made in oilseed crushing mills
  • Walnut oil (except artists' materials), made in crushing mills