Summary - Canadian Industry Statistics

Definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in finishing yarn and thread, textile fabrics, textile products (except carpets and rugs), and clothing, not made in the same establishment. Finishing operations include bleaching; dyeing; printing fabrics (roller, screen, flock, plisse); chemical finishing for water repellency, fire resistance and mildew proofing; and mechanical finishing, such as preshrinking, calendering, napping and stone-washing.

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  Establishments, known as converters, primarily engaged in buying fabric in the grey and having it finished by contractors, are included.
  
  Example Activities:
  Batik work (hand painting on textile fabrics)
  Bleaching textile fibres, thread, yarn or fabrics
  Bleaching textile products (including clothing)
  Burling and mending fabrics, for the trade
  Calendering textile fabrics or textile products (including clothing)
  Carbonizing textile fibres
  Carding textile fibres
  Chemical finishing (e.g., for fire, mildew, water resistance) of textile fabrics, for the trade
  Combing textile fibres
  Dyeing clothing
  Dyeing textile products, for the trade
  Dyeing textile raw stock, fibres, thread, yarn or fabrics
  Embossing textile products (including clothing)
  Finishing clothing
  Finishing purchased fabrics
  Finishing textile fabrics
  Flock printing of textile fabrics
  Hair, animal (except horse), preparation (e.g., dressing, heckling, teasing, willowing)
  Hosiery dyeing and finishing
  Knit fabrics, dyeing or finishing
  Mechanical finishing of clothing
  Mercerizing textile fibres and fabrics
  Mildew proofing textile fabrics and products
  Napping textile fabrics
  Preparing textile fibres for spinning
  Preshrinking textile fabrics and clothing
  Printed fabrics, made from purchased fabric
  Printing on narrow fabrics
  Printing on textile fabrics
  Scouring and combing textile fibres
  Shrinking textile fabrics and products (including clothing)
  Sponging textile fabrics
  Sponging textiles for tailors and dressmakers
  Stone washing textile fabrics and clothing, for the trade
  Sueding textile fabrics
  Teaseling textile fabrics
  Textile products finishing
  Thread bleaching, dyeing and finishing
  Yarn bleaching, dyeing and finishing

  Exclusions

  Establishments primarily engaged in:
  coating, rubberizing, varnishing or waxing fabrics (see 313320 Fabric coating)
  embroidering textile products and clothing (see 314990 All other textile product mills)
  knitting and finishing hosiery and socks, in the same establishment (see 315110 Hosiery and sock mills)
  knitting and finishing clothing, except hosiery and socks, in the same establishment (see 315190 Other
  clothing knitting mills)
  manufacturing and finishing men's and boys' cut-and-sew clothing, in the same establishment (see 315220
  Men's and boys' cut and sew clothing manufacturing)
  manufacturing and finishing women's and girls' cut-and-sew clothing, in the same establishment (see
  315249 Women's and girls' cut and sew clothing manufacturing)
  manufacturing and finishing other cut-and-sew clothing, in the same establishment (see 315289 All other
  cut and sew clothing manufacturing)
  fur dressing and dyeing (see 316110 Leather and hide tanning and finishing)
  printing on clothing (see 323113 Commercial screen printing)