Federal obligations in other metal container manufacturing (NAICS 332439)

Metal containers other than cans: $854.2 million tagged

Federal logistics and industrial buyers purchase metal containers from manufacturers classified in 332439. Tagged obligations sum to $854,218,110.39. That is not a TEU count and not a count of dumpsters. Physical container units are not in the packet facts.

“Other” means residual: metal containers that are not the more specific can-manufacturing codes. Shipping containers, specialized metal bins, and similar products can land here depending on the vendor’s primary industry. Award descriptions on the industry hub are the product-level view.

4,844 awards and a mid manufacturing average

Four thousand eight hundred forty-four awards against $854,218,110.39 averages about $176,000 per action. That sits between catalog fasteners and concentrated capital-machinery residuals. Spare containers, modifications, and full-lot buys can share the code. The average is the ratio of the two packet facts.

Fabricated structural metal (332312) is a different fabricated-metal NAICS in this slice—buildings and structures, not containers. Keep 332439 and 332312 separate. $854,218,110.39 is other metal container manufacturing only.

Containers versus structures versus waste equipment

A metal shipping container manufacturer should generally be 332439. A structural steel fabricator should be 332312. Solid waste collection (562111) is a services code for hauling, not container manufacturing. Dual-role vendors can be tagged either way. The $854,218,110.39 follows the 332439 tag on 4,844 actions.

Assistance awards may not carry NAICS. A grant that buys storage containers for a locality will usually miss this manufacturing rollup.

A complete citation of this industry is $854,218,110.39 in USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 332439, other metal container manufacturing, on 4,844 awards. Anything less—dropping the NAICS, dropping the word obligations, or dropping the contract-only universe—overstates what the extract contains. The packet facts do not include a fiscal year, so this guide does not invent one. Live tables on the industry hub can move when USAspending posts modifications; the harvested pair remains $854,218,110.39 and 4,844.

Obligations on container lots

Container contracts often obligate a quantity and pay on delivery and inspection. The $854,218,110.39 is committed value on 4,844 tagged actions, not cash already paid for every box shipped. Quantity cuts de-obligate. Outlay fields track payments.

Classification errors are expected at the margin. Vendors that straddle beverage-can manufacturing, structural steel, and waste-collection services may land in 332439 on some actions and in a neighbor on others. Fabricated structural metal (332312) is building frames; 332439 is residual metal containers. The public-record stance is to keep $854,218,110.39 attached to 332439 as tagged, then use the 4,844 descriptions to see shipping containers versus other metal boxes. Re-tagging the extract by hand is out of scope for this overlay.

Hub and neighbors

Open the other metal container manufacturing industry page for the 4,844 awards behind $854,218,110.39. Use the all-industries directory for structural metal and waste-collection codes without merging their dollars into this container total. Source: USAspending.gov contract awards.

Container manufacturing is not structural steel

Award count interprets the buying pattern. 4,844 actions producing $854,218,110.39 is thousands of mid-size container-manufacturing orders, with about $176,000 per action as the simple average. That average hides mix: modifications, options, and delivery orders all increment count. 4,844 is not a count of unique companies and not a count of physical units. Use the hub amount sort to see whether a few large rows plus a long tail make up most of the tagged total.

Outlays remain a separate USAspending concept. An agency can obligate $854,218,110.39 across 4,844 tagged other metal container manufacturing actions and pay on a different calendar. De-obligations after cancellations reduce the obligation ledger; they do not rewrite the fact that this NAICS has been a large tagged category in the harvest. Assistance without NAICS still sits outside even when the real-world activity looks similar. Program pages answer the grant question; this page answers the tagged-contract question.

Internal links on this file point only to the other metal container manufacturing industry page and the all-industries directory. Those are the packet hrefs. Neighboring industry codes mentioned in prose are classification context only. Source note, copied from the packet: NAICS from USAspending contract awards. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS. The overlay’s job is to state $854,218,110.39, 4,844, the obligation unit, and the boundary around beverage-can manufacturing, structural steel, and waste-collection services.

Questions

How much federal contracting is coded to other metal container manufacturing?

NAICS 332439 shows $854,218,110.39 in obligations on 4,844 USAspending contract awards. It is a residual metal-container manufacturing code, not structural steel and not waste collection. The unit is obligations, not outlays. Quote it as USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 332439, not as cash outlays. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so grants remain outside the 4,844-award extract behind $854,218,110.39.

Does this include aluminum beverage cans?

Can manufacturing uses more specific NAICS. 332439 is other metal containers. This page’s $854,218,110.39 follows the 332439 tag on 4,844 awards. Award descriptions on the hub show the mix. Fabricated structural metal (332312) is building frames; 332439 is residual metal containers. Keep $854,218,110.39 attached to 332439 as tagged on 4,844 actions; do not merge neighbor codes into the same unlabeled cell.

Is fabricated structural metal part of 332439?

No. Structural metal is NAICS 332312. This page’s $854,218,110.39 is other metal container manufacturing only. Open 332312 separately from the all-industries list. That pattern is thousands of mid-size container-manufacturing orders, with about $176,000 per action as the simple average of $854,218,110.39 over 4,844 awards. Use the 4,844 descriptions to see shipping containers versus other metal boxes.

Are grant-funded storage containers included?

Usually not. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so they fall outside this 4,844-award contract extract. Use program pages for grants. This industry guide covers tagged contracts only: $854,218,110.39 obligated on 4,844 other metal container manufacturing awards in USAspending. Outlays are a different field; assistance without NAICS is a different award type.