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national industry 311211

Flour Milling

Overview

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) milling flour or meal from grains (except rice) or vegetables and/or (2) milling flour and preparing flour mixes or doughs.

The immediate parent of national industry 311211 is international industry 31121: Flour Milling and Malt Manufacturing

2017 NAICS Edition Cross References

  • Preparing breakfast cereals from flour milled in the same establishment--are classified in Industry 311230, Breakfast Cereal Manufacturing;
  • Manufacturing prepared flour mixes or doughs from flour ground elsewhere--are classified in U.S. Industry 311824, Dry Pasta, Dough, and Flour Mixes Manufacturing from Purchased Flour;
  • Milling rice or cleaning and polishing rice--are classified in U.S. Industry 311212, Rice Milling;
  • Wet milling corn and vegetables--are classified in U.S. Industry 311221, Wet Corn Milling; and
  • Crushing soybeans and extracting soybean oil--are classified in U.S. Industry 311224, Soybean and Other Oilseed Processing.

Sub-Descriptions

  1. 311211 - Barley flour manufacturing
  2. 311211 - Batters, prepared, made in flour mills
  3. 311211 - Blended flour made in flour mills
  4. 311211 - Brewers' and distillers' flakes and grits, corn, manufacturing
  5. 311211 - Buckwheat flour manufacturing
  6. 311211 - Bulgur (flour) manufacturing
  7. 311211 - Cereal grain flour manufacturing
  8. 311211 - Cereal grain germ manufacturing
  9. 311211 - Corn flour manufacturing
  10. 311211 - Corn meal made in flour mills
  11. 311211 - Doughs, prepared, made in flour mills
  12. 311211 - Durum flour manufacturing
  13. 311211 - Farina (except breakfast food) made in flour mills
  14. 311211 - Flour mills, cereals grains (except breakfast cereals, rice)
  15. 311211 - Flour mixes made in flour mills
  16. 311211 - Flour, blended, prepared, or self-rising (except rice), made in flour mills
  17. 311211 - Fruit flour, meal, and powders, manufacturing
  18. 311211 - Graham flour manufacturing
  19. 311211 - Grain mills (except animal feed, breakfast cereal, rice)
  20. 311211 - Grits and flakes, corn brewer's, manufacturing
  21. 311211 - Hominy grits (except breakfast food), manufacturing
  22. 311211 - Meal, corn, for human consumption made in flour mills
  23. 311211 - Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake) made in flour mills
  24. 311211 - Oat flour manufacturing
  25. 311211 - Potato flour manufacturing
  26. 311211 - Prepared flour mixes made in flour mills
  27. 311211 - Rye flour manufacturing
  28. 311211 - Semolina flour manufacturing
  29. 311211 - Sorghum flour manufacturing
  30. 311211 - Vegetable flour manufacturing
  31. 311211 - Vegetable flour, meal, and powders, made in flour mills
  32. 311211 - Wheat bran manufacturing
  33. 311211 - Wheat flour manufacturing
  34. 311211 - Wheat germ manufacturing

History

The NAICS editions in which this code was present are indicated below. In the event that a code was changed from the prior edition the equivalent value in that edition is provided for reference.

Edition Existed Equivalent Value
2002 311211
2007 311211
2012 311211
2017 311211
2022 311211

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Mappings

  1. 2034 - Dried and Dehydrated Fruits, Vegetables, and Soup Mixes
  2. 2041 - Flour and Other Grain Mill Products

Insurance Industry Mappings

The US Property and Casualty Insurance Industry may use the following classification descriptions which might encompass national industry 311211, Flour Milling:

  1. cake mix dry blending
  2. cake mix manufacturing dry blending
  3. dried and dehydrated fruit vegetable and soup mix
  4. dried and dehydrated fruit vegetable and soup mix manufacturing
  5. employment contractor temporary food product manufacturing not otherwise classified staff de pa
  6. flour and other grain mill product
  7. flour milling
  8. flour milling and malt manufacturing
  9. flour milling naic
  10. food manufacturing
  11. food product manufacturing
  12. food product manufacturing dry
  13. food product manufacturing dry no frying
  14. food product manufacturing dry with frying
  15. food product manufacturing not otherwise classified
  16. food product manufacturing not otherwise classified dry
  17. food product manufacturing or processing not otherwise classified
  18. fruit flour meal and powder manufacturing
  19. grain and oilseed milling
  20. grain flour milling
  21. grain grain product for human consumption including cereal soup
  22. grain grain product for human consumption including flour cereal manufacturing or proc
  23. grain milling
  24. grain or feed milling
  25. grist mill
  26. manufacturing
  27. potato processing not frozen

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