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Manufacturing provides important material support for national infrastructure and also for national defense. On the other hand, most manufacturing processes may involve significant social and environmental costs. The clean-up costs of hazardous waste, for example, may outweigh the benefits of a product that creates it.
The following is a list of the world's largest manufacturing companies, ordered by revenue in millions of U.S. dollars according to the Fortune Global 500. Currently the 50 biggest companies by revenue are included.
3M Company. 3M Company (originally the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company) is an American multinational conglomerate operating in the fields of industry, worker safety, and consumer goods. [5] The company produces over 60,000 products under several brands, [6] including adhesives, abrasives, laminates, passive fire protection, personal ...
Subcategories. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. Manufacturers by product type (31 C) Manufacturing companies by city (120 C) Manufacturing companies by continent (8 C) Manufacturing companies by country (126 C) Manufacturing companies by time (6 C)
This category has the following 43 subcategories, out of 43 total. Manufacturing companies in the United States by city (51 C) Defunct manufacturing companies of the United States (13 C, 33 P) Manufacturing companies of the United States by state or territory (51 C, 1 P) Manufacturing companies based in Washington, D.C. (3 C, 3 P)
The North American Industry Classification System or NAICS (/ neɪks /) [1] is a classification of business establishments by type of economic activity (the process of production). It is used by governments and business in Canada, Mexico, and the United States of America. It has largely replaced the older Standard Industrial Classification (SIC ...
The United States is the world's second-largest manufacturer after the People's Republic of China with a record high real output in 2021 of $2.5 trillion. [2] As of December 2016, the U.S. manufacturing industry employed 12.35 million people. A year later, in December 2017, U.S. manufacturing employment grew by 207,000, or 1.7%, employees. [3]
Manufacturing companies of Canada (38 C, 58 P) Manufacturing companies of Chile (9 C, 2 P) Manufacturing companies of China (41 C, 49 P) Manufacturing companies of Colombia (9 C, 4 P) Manufacturing companies of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (8 P) Manufacturing companies of Croatia (11 C, 4 P)