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NAICS 325999 - Other chemical products

These statistics are for the Other chemical products industry, based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 325999.

Principal statistics**
  Establishments Shipments, $M Employment Imports, $M Exports, $M
1995 209 2 175 9 736 2 329 903
1996 228 2 345 9 896 2 382 921
1997 197 2 398 9 617 2 642 942
1998 151 2 217 8 893 2 848 906
1999 144 2 505 9 041 3 104 936
2000 288 2 772 8 001 3 263 1 068
2001 285 2 959 7 841 3 261 1 169
2002 309 3 068 8 049 3 508 1 129
2003 312 3 269 8 951 3 359 1 099
2004 309* 3 605* 8 950* 3 336 1 168

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 Canadian industry comprises establishments, not classified to any other Canadian industry, primarily engaged in manufacturing chemical products.

Examples:

  • Activated carbon and charcoal
  • Activated clays, earths and other mineral products
  • Additive preparations for gasoline (e.g., anti-knock preparations, detergents, gum inhibitors)
  • Aerosol can filling, on a job order or contract basis
  • Aerosol packaging services
  • Antifreeze preparations
  • Anti-scaling compounds
  • Brake fluid, synthetic
  • Carbon, activated
  • Cat litter
  • Computer printer toner cartridges
  • Concrete additive preparations (e.g., curing, hardening)
  • Crankcase additive preparations
  • Degreasing preparations for machinery parts
  • Deicing preparations
  • Distilled water
  • Drawing inks
  • Drilling mud compounds, conditioners and additives (except bentonites)
  • Dye preparations, clothing, household type
  • Embalming fluids
  • Engine degreasers
  • Essential oils, natural
  • Film, sensitized (e.g., camera, motion picture, X-ray)
  • Fire extinguisher chemical preparations
  • Fire retardant chemical preparations
  • Fireworks
  • Flares
  • Fluxes (e.g., brazing, galvanizing, soldering, welding)
  • Foundry core oil, wash and wax
  • Gelatin capsules, empty
  • Greases, synthetic lubricating
  • Hydraulic fluids, synthetic
  • Incense
  • Inhibitors (e.g., corrosion, oxidation, polymerization)
  • Inks, drawing, stamp pad and writing
  • Insulating oils
  • Lighter fluids (e.g., charcoal, cigarette)
  • Lubricating oils and greases, synthetic
  • Matches and match books
  • Motion picture film
  • Motor oils, synthetic
  • Napalm
  • Oil additive preparations
  • Oils (e.g., cutting, lubricating), synthetic
  • Oils, essential
  • Paper, photographic sensitized
  • Photographic chemicals
  • Photographic film, cloth, paper and plate, sensitized
  • Photomasks
  • Plasticizers, preparations
  • Pyrotechnics (e.g., flares, flashlight bombs, signals)
  • Radiator additive preparations
  • Recycling services for degreasing solvents (e.g., engine, machine part)
  • Retarders (e.g., flameproofing agents, mildewing agents)
  • Rubber processing preparations (e.g., accelerators, stabilizers)
  • Rust preventative preparations
  • Solvents recovery service, on a contract or fee basis
  • Stabilizers, chemical preparations
  • Sugar substitutes (i.e., synthetic sweeteners blended with other ingredients), made from purchased synthetic sweeteners
  • Swimming pool chemical preparations
  • Toner cartridges
  • Toner cartridges, rebuilding
  • Toners (i.e., for photocopiers, laser printers and similar electrostatic
  • printing devices)
  • Toners (i.e., photographic)
  • Transmission fluids, synthetic
  • Water treatment chemical preparations
  • Water, distilled
  • Writing inks
  • X-ray films and plates, sensitized

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