NAICS 332410 power boiler and heat exchanger manufacturing obligations

Dollars, awards, and a high average size

Seven hundred ninety-seven awards produced $15,847,707,916.64 in obligations. The mean is roughly $19.9 million per award, which is large relative to many manufacturing NAICS codes that spread similar dollars across tens of thousands of small supply actions. Power boilers and heat exchangers are capital equipment. A modest award count with a large dollar total is consistent with that kind of buy, though USAspending does not label each row as a boiler versus a heat exchanger in this packet.

The code’s Census title is manufacturing, not installation or fuel supply. Field construction, plant operations, and energy generation sit under other NAICS codes. If a contract’s principal purpose was manufacturing of power boilers or heat exchangers, 332410 is the expected tag. If the principal purpose was something else, the same physical equipment might be a line item on a different code and would not add to this $15.8 billion.

SpendingVault reports the USAspending contract aggregate as harvested. It does not add units produced, megawatts, or plant locations. Readers who need those fields will not find them in the industry total; they may appear on individual award descriptions on the 332410 industry page.

Capital-equipment manufacturing codes often show fewer awards than medical-supply codes at similar dollars. NAICS 332410’s 797 awards and $15,847,707,916.64 fit that pattern. Readers comparing this hub to a 50,000-award electronics code should compare dollars and award counts as two separate rankings rather than treating one as a proxy for the other.

Reading manufacturing obligations

Obligations on manufacturing contracts often cover long production schedules. An agency can obligate $15.8 billion in this code while outlays lag as units are built, tested, and delivered. Modifications can raise or lower the net. Treating the headline as money already spent would confuse commitment with payment.

The 797-award count is an award tally from the same extract. It is not a count of boilers, heat exchangers, or factories. Multiple delivery orders can sit inside one award, and one award can cover more than one unit. The industry table is the place to inspect those structures without inventing production statistics.

Where 332410 sits among manufacturing codes

NAICS 332410 is a six-digit manufacturing code under fabricated metal product manufacturing in the broader classification tree. Neighboring codes cover other metal products and are not rolled into $15,847,707,916.64. The all-industries index is the comparison list for ranking this code against those neighbors by dollars or by award count.

Grants that fund energy research or industrial retrofits generally will not carry this NAICS. The packet source note is the rule: NAICS from USAspending contract awards; assistance may not carry NAICS. This hub is a contract-manufacturing view.

Energy-adjacent NAICS codes split manufacturing, construction, and utility service. Boiler manufacturing is 332410. Electric power distribution is 221122. Industrial building construction is 236210. A plant project can touch all three tags on different actions. This $15.8 billion is only the manufacturing tag.

How to use the 332410 hub

Start with the two packet facts: $15.8 billion obligated and 797 awards. Then open the power boiler and heat exchanger manufacturing industry page for recipient and agency columns. Compare 332410 on the all-industries list if the question is whether this manufacturing tag outranks other metal-product codes.

Do not convert the average of $19.9 million into a unit price. The packet has no unit count. The average is obligations divided by awards, nothing more.

Caveats on the tagged total

Contracting officers choose one principal NAICS. Spare parts, installation, or related metalwork can ride along on a 332410 award, and boiler-related work can be tagged elsewhere. The $15,847,707,916.64 figure is the tagged sum, not a physical inventory of federal boilers.

If USAspending revises historical actions, the aggregate will move. Until then, 797 awards and $15.8 billion in obligations are the recorded contract footprint for this code.

What a $19.9 million mean does not price

Dividing obligations by 797 awards yields about $19.9 million. That figure is a mean award size, not a catalog price for a boiler or a heat exchanger. Quantity, capacity, and whether the award is a production lot or a spare-parts vehicle are not in the packet facts.

Use the power boiler and heat exchanger manufacturing industry page to inspect award-level amounts. Rank 332410 on the all-industries index if the question is dollar order among fabricated-metal manufacturing codes. Keep the source citation on USAspending.gov contract awards.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 332410?

USAspending contract awards tagged to power boiler and heat exchanger manufacturing show $15,847,707,916.64 in obligations across 797 awards. That is an obligation total, not outlays. Assistance awards without NAICS are excluded. The industry page lists the award rows behind the aggregate.

Why is the average award about $19.9 million?

Dividing $15,847,707,916.64 by 797 awards yields about $19.9 million. Power boilers and heat exchangers are large manufactured items, so a high mean is unsurprising, but the mean is not a catalog price. A few large production contracts can dominate the average. This packet does not publish a median or a unit count.

Are installation contracts included in NAICS 332410?

Only if the contracting officer tagged the action 332410. The Census title is manufacturing. Installation, plant construction, and fuel supply usually use other codes. Mixed contracts follow the principal-purpose NAICS. This $15.8 billion is the tagged manufacturing slice, not every boiler-related federal dollar.

Do grants for industrial boilers appear here?

Generally no. The aggregate is built from USAspending contract awards that carry NAICS 332410. Assistance listings often have no NAICS and therefore do not enter this industry total. Look at program or recipient pages for grant-funded work that never received a manufacturing code.