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ELECTRONICS, SEMICONDUCTORS,

AND OTHER ELECTRICAL

EQUIPMENT

33.1 Industry Overview

NAICS code: all 33400s

INDUSTRY SNAPSHOT

6499 electronic manufacturing operations in the United States
494,370 employees
$102.9 billion in annual sales
3.1 tons of solid waste generation per employee
Major waste streams: papers, plastics, and metals

Industries in the computer and electronic product manufacturing subsector group include
establishments that manufacture computers, computer peripherals, communications
equipment, and similar electronic products, and establishments that manufacture compo-
nents for such products. The computer and electronic product manufacturing industries
have been combined in the hierarchy of the North American Industry Classification
System (NAICS) because of the economic significance they have attained. Their rapid
growth suggests that they will become even more important to the economies of all three
North American countries in the future, and in addition their manufacturing processes are
fundamentally different from the manufacturing processes of other machinery and equip-
ment. The design and use of integrated circuits and the application of highly specialized
miniaturization technologies are common elements in the production technologies of the
computer and electronic subsector. Convergence of technology motivates this NAICS

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