THE U.S. MARKET FOR TESTING/MEASUREMENT EQUIP- ment (NAICS 33451) in the three major customer seg- ments profiled here represents about $5.4 billion, accord- ing to estimates by MDM Analytics, Lafayette, Colo. The following charts segment estimated end-user demand across the top 10 industries, by Standard Industrial Classification code, and by geographic region in these combined segments. ;
TESTING/MEASURING EQUIPMENT
Top 10 construction industries
SIC code Category Market value No. of companies
1731 Electrical work 1,219,089,799 121,083
1711 Plumbing, heating, and air conditioning 173,617,225 178,448
1521 General contractors, single-family houses 169,988,097 424,032
1542 General contractors, nonresidential buildings (other than industrial buildings & warehouses) 165,118,231 47,719
1623 Water, sewer, pipeline, and communications and power line construction 113,532,614 13,300
1611 Highway and street construction, except elevated highways 62,323,002 26,688
1541 General contractors, industrial buildings and warehouses 60,231,992 15,542
1522 General contractors, residential buildings (other than single-family) 54,502,067 36,619
1629 Heavy construction, not elsewhere classified 52,001,373 14,810
1771 Concrete work 45,858,521 40,901
Top 10 manufacturing industries
SIC code Category Market value No. of companies
2621 Paper mills 152,873,564 1,878
3651 Household audio and video equipment 97,381,531 2,230
2631 Paperboard mills 95,028,512 844
3812 Search, detection, navigation, guidance, aeronautical, and nautical systems & instruments 71,813,921 2,386
3577 Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified 59,829,736 2,308
3663 Radio and television broadcasting and communications equipment 52,309,155 3,459
3674 Semiconductors and related devices 51,174,914 3,694
2821 Plastics materials, synthetic resins, and nonvulcanizable elastomers 49,714,083 2,157
2911 Petroleum refining 46,674,556 1,828
2819 Industrial inorganic chemicals, not elsewhere classified 45,774,479 2,131
Top 10 utilities/transportation industries
SIC code Category Market value No. of companies
4911 Electric services 331,874,950 17,357
4813 Telephone communications, except radiotelephone 86,527,917 29,143
4812 Radiotelephone communications 37,087,001 22,426
4841 Cable and other pay television services 15,632,552 8,421
4941 Water supply 11,921,428 10,139
4899 Communications services, not elsewhere classified 11,475,991 46,712
4931 Electric and other services combined 11,039,546 1,191
4925 Mixed, manufactured, or liquefied petroleum gas production and/or distribution 10,783,168 742
4924 Natural gas distribution 7,857,394 1,690
4923 Natural gas transmission and distribution 7,227,509 781
