24
Division
Manufacture of basic metals
SDMX: C24
Division Level
2 Depth
5 Children
23 Siblings
📋 Official Classification Notes
✓ Includes
This division includes the activities of smelting and/or refining ferrous and non-ferrous metals from ore, pig, metal waste or scrap, using electro-metallurgic and other metallurgical process techniques.
+ Also Includes
This division also includes the manufacture of metal alloys and super-alloys by introducing other chemical elements to pure metals. The output of smelting and refining, usually in ingot form, is used in rolling, drawing and extruding operations to make, for example, plate, sheet, strip, bars, rods, wire or tubes, pipes and hollow profiles and other basic metal products, and in molten form to make castings.
Sub-categories
5 24.1
Manufacture of basic iron and steel and of ferro-alloys
24.2
Manufacture of tubes, pipes, hollow profiles and related fittings, of steel
24.3
Manufacture of other products of first processing of steel
This group includes manufacturing other products by cold processing of steel.
24.4
Manufacture of basic precious and other non-ferrous metals
24.5
Casting of metals
This group includes activities of foundries employing different casting processes to produce castings with all ferrous a
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Data source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) —
UK SIC 2026
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