Summary - Canadian Industry Statistics

Definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing heavy machinery and equipment of a type used primarily in the construction industry, such as crawler or rubber-tired tractors with bulldozer blade or ripper tooth attachments, front-end loaders, cranes, concrete mixers, power shovels and pavers.

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  Machinery that can be used in both the construction and mining industries is treated as construction machinery. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing forestry machinery, such as tree harvesting and handling equipment, are also included.
  
  Example Activities:
  Aggregate spreaders, manufacturing
  Backhoes, manufacturing
  Bits, rock drill, construction and surface mining type, manufacturing
  Buckets, excavating (e.g., clamshell, concrete, dragline, drag scraper, shovel), manufacturing
  Bulldozers, manufacturing
  Cabs for construction machinery, manufacturing
  Chippers, portable commercial (e.g., brush, limb and log), manufacturing
  Concrete finishing machinery, manufacturing
  Concrete gunning equipment, manufacturing
  Concrete mixing machinery, portable, manufacturing
  Construction machinery, manufacturing
  Construction tractors and attachments, manufacturing
  Cranes, construction type, manufacturing
  Draglines, crawlers, manufacturing
  Dredging machinery, manufacturing
  Grader attachments, elevating, manufacturing
  Graders, road, manufacturing
  Hammers, pneumatic, hand-operated, manufacturing
  Jackhammers, manufacturing
  Loaders, shovel, manufacturing
  Off-highway trucks, manufacturing
  Planers, bituminous, manufacturing
  Portable crushing, pulverizing and screening machinery, manufacturing
  Rock crushing machinery, portable, manufacturing
  Scrapers, construction type, manufacturing
  Shovel loaders, manufacturing
  Snowplough attachments (except lawn and garden type), manufacturing
  Surface mining machinery (except drilling), manufacturing
  Teeth, bucket and scarified, manufacturing
  Tractors and attachments, construction type, manufacturing
  Tractors, crawler, manufacturing
  Tree harvesting equipment, manufacturing
  Trucks, off-highway, manufacturing

  Exclusions

  Establishments primarily engaged in:
  manufacturing machinery with both construction and mining uses, including portable rock crushing
  machinery (see 333120 Construction machinery manufacturing)
  manufacturing coal and ore conveyors (see 333920 Material handling equipment manufacturing)
  manufacturing underground mining locomotives (see 336510 Railroad rolling stock manufacturing)
  manufacturing offshore oil and gas well drilling and production platforms (see 33661 Ship and boat
  building)