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NAICS 32561 - Soaps and cleaning compounds

These statistics are for the Soaps and cleaning compounds industry, based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 32561.

Principal statistics**
  Establishments Shipments, $M Employment Imports, $M Exports, $M
1995 135 2 020 8 100 876 415
1996 159 1 904 8 150 923 530
1997 168 1 936 8 547 1 033 511
1998 164 1 895 10 143 1 159 530
1999 150 2 026 8 417 1 277 571
2000 255 2 226 6 631 1 368 554
2001 235 1 918 6 429 1 503 640
2002 241 1 824 6 407 1 644 708
2003 232 1 801 6 274 1 653 666
2004 241* 1 677* 6 270* 1 804 779

Source: Statistics Canada

* Industry Canada estimates
** Beginning in 2000, data includes very small establishments. This accounts for the large jump in establishments, and for part of the increase in shipments and employment.

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing soap and other cleaning compounds.

Exclusion(s): Establishments primarily engaged in:

  • manufacturing industrial bleaches (32518, Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing)
  • manufacturing shampoos and shaving preparations (32562, Toilet Preparation Manufacturing)

Examples: 

  • Air fresheners
  • Ammonia, household type
  • Assistants, textile and leather finishing
  • Automobile polishes and cleaners
  • Bleaches, formulated for household use
  • Brass polishes
  • Cleaners, household type
  • Cleaning and polishing preparations
  • Cloths, dusting and polishing, chemically treated
  • Dentifrices
  • Deodorants (except personal)
  • Detergents
  • Dishwasher detergents
  • Disinfectants, household type and industrial
  • Drain pipe cleaners
  • Drycleaning preparations
  • Dusting cloths, chemically treated
  • Emulsifiers (surface active agents)
  • Fabric softeners
  • Finishing agents, textile and leather
  • Floor polishes and waxes
  • Furniture polishes and waxes
  • Hand soaps (hard, liquid, soft)
  • Laundry bleaches, formulated for household use
  • Laundry soap, chips and powder
  • Leather finishing assistants
  • Metal polishes (i.e., tarnish removers)
  • Mordants
  • Oils, soluble (i.e., textile finishing assistants)
  • Oven cleaners
  • Penetrants
  • Polishes (e.g., automobile, furniture, metal, shoe)
  • Polishing preparations
  • Recycling drycleaning fluids
  • Rug cleaning preparations
  • Rust removers
  • Scouring cleansers (e.g., pastes, powders)
  • Shoe polishes and cleaners
  • Silver polishes
  • Soaps (e.g., bar, chip, powder)
  • Spot removers (except laundry presoaks)
  • Starches, laundry
  • Surface active agents
  • Textile finishing assistants
  • Textile scouring agents
  • Toilet bowl cleaners
  • Toothpastes, gels and tooth powders
  • Tub and tile cleaning preparations
  • Waxes, polishing (e.g., floor, furniture)
  • Wetting agents
  • Window cleaning preparations

Created: 2005-05-24
Updated: 2005-10-03
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