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Class 🏭 C Manufacturing

12.00 — Manufacture of Tobacco Products

12.00
Class
Manufacture of tobacco products
SDMX: C1200
Class Level
4 Depth
0 Children
0 Siblings
📋 Official Classification Notes

✓ Includes

This class includes: - manufacture of tobacco products and products of tobacco substitutes: cigarettes, fine-cut tobacco, cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, snuff - manufacture of homogenised or reconstituted tobacco

+ Also Includes

This class also includes: - stemming and redrying of tobacco

✗ Excludes

This class excludes: - growing or preliminary processing of tobacco, see 01.15, 01.63 - manufacture of electronic cigarette vapour liquids, including closed refills, see 20.59 - manufacture of electronic cigarettes (vapes), see 32.99

Frequently Confused With

01.15
Growing of tobacco
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 01.63
Post-harvest crop activities and seed processing for propagation
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 20.59
Manufacture of other chemical products n.e.c.
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 32.99
Other manufacturing n.e.c.
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Who is this code for?

Verified: SEMANTIC_SECTION_MATRIX

Production managers and directors in manufacturing

SOC 2020:1121
Common titles: Plant manager, Factory manager
SOC 2020 Official Source ISCO-08: 1321

Food, drink and tobacco process operatives

SOC 2020:8111
Common titles: Machine operator, Factory worker
SOC 2020 Official Source ISCO-08: 8160

Assemblers (electrical and electronic products)

SOC 2020:8131
Common titles: Assembly worker, Line worker
SOC 2020 Official Source ISCO-08: 8212

Related Occupations

Industrial engineersMetal working production and maintenance fitters

Evidence: Representative SOC 2020 occupations for SIC Section C (Manufacture of tobacco products).

Frequently confused with

Data source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) — UK SIC 2026
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