Fabricated structural metal manufacturing federal obligations in Alabama (NAICS 332312)

NAICS 332312 and Alabama as a metal-fab join

This page intersects one six-digit industry and one state. $78,498,247.59 is the obligation sum where both filters are true. NAICS 332312 is fabricated structural metal manufacturing, not hardware manufacturing and not military armored-vehicle manufacturing. It is not a statewide spending total and not a national NAICS 332312 total. Those parent tables live on /states/al/ and /industries/332312/.

80 awards against about $78.5 million is a mid-thin metal-fab cell, not a catalog of tiny hardware orders. 80 is an award-record count. Modifications can sit beside base awards. The packet does not say how many unique vendors produced the 80 lines. Reading 80 as factories, ships, or clinics in Alabama would confuse actions with establishments.

Alabama industries (/states/al/industries/) lists other NAICS codes with AL place of performance. All spending ties (/ties/) indexes other state–industry pairs. Do not sum those indexes into $78,498,247.59. The headline remains $78,498,247.59 on 80 awards for this pair alone.

Structural metal, not armored-vehicle manufacturing

NAICS 332312 is a Census industry code assigned on the award. NAICS 332312 is fabricated structural metal manufacturing, not hardware manufacturing and not military armored-vehicle manufacturing. Hardware manufacturing and military armored-vehicle, tank, and tank-component manufacturing are different industry pages. Those neighboring codes never enter $78,498,247.59 unless they also appear as 332312, which they do not. Keep the six-digit label when you cite the Alabama cell.

Structural metal fabrication is not small-arms manufacturing and not a residual metal leftover. This extract does not name beams, plants, or primes. Dividing $78,498,247.59 by 80 produces about $981,228. That quotient is arithmetic, not a typical Alabama contract. There is no median, no top-award table, and no fiscal-year breakout on this packet. Do not treat the mean as a posted unit price.

Alabama geography on a 332312 cell

Alabama place of performance can cover Birmingham, Mobile, Huntsville, or a reporting address. The packet has no county split. Inside the AL tag, Birmingham, Mobile, or a named fab shop are not broken out. The packet has one state key. A named city can sit inside $78,498,247.59 only if its awards carry NAICS 332312 and AL — which this narrative cannot verify.

Place-of-performance geography is not the same as contractor headquarters. A firm based elsewhere can perform in Alabama, and a Alabama address can appear on work done out of state. This join reports the coded pair, not a logistics map. /states/al/ remains the statewide parent.

Obligations versus outlays for Alabama 332312

USAspending obligations are commitments, not checks that have cleared. $78,498,247.59 can include amounts that will be paid later, cancelled, or modified. The packet does not publish outlays. 80 is not a payment count. Quote NAICS 332312 in Alabama as obligations and leave fiscal-year folklore off the citation — years are unpublished here.

What the metal–Alabama pair does not prove

The structural metal–Alabama pair does not prove that Alabama specialized in this industry because of federal demand, or the reverse. Structural metal fabrication is not small-arms manufacturing and not a residual metal leftover. This extract does not name beams, plants, or primes. Campaign-finance tables are a different dataset; donations do not fund these awards. Keep both sides of the join in any headline: NAICS 332312 and Alabama.

How to cite NAICS 332312 in Alabama

Cite USAspending.gov, NAICS 332312 (Fabricated Structural Metal Manufacturing), Alabama (AL), $78,498,247.59, and 80 awards. Note that the figures are obligations. Point readers to /states/al/, /industries/332312/, /states/al/industries/, and /ties/ rather than collapsing those pages into this cell. Mean per award stays about $981,228 as a ratio only. Readers who reuse AL structural metal (332312) | $78.5M should keep both sides of the join in the same sentence, cite USAspending.gov as the source, and treat award rows as records rather than unique vendors. The live hubs linked from this page can refresh the snapshot; this narrative does not invent a fiscal year, a recipient list, or an outlay total that the packet omitted. Place of performance remains a geography tag, not proof that work stayed inside the named state.

Questions

How much has NAICS 332312 obligated in Alabama?

The pair totals $78,498,247.59 across 80 awards, per USAspending.gov NAICS industry aggregates by place of performance state. Those are obligations for Fabricated Structural Metal Manufacturing inside Alabama coding, not outlays and not every federal dollar in Alabama.

Are 80 awards an Alabama fabricator census?

80 award records produced $78,498,247.59. Concentration or dispersion is visible only as that count against that sum. About $981,228 per award is $78,498,247.59 divided by 80, not a typical Alabama purchase. The packet does not list unique recipients or a median award.

Is this Alabama armored-vehicle manufacturing?

No. $78,498,247.59 is NAICS 332312 — fabricated structural metal manufacturing — with Alabama place of performance on 80 awards. Armored-vehicle manufacturing uses a different code. Quote 332312 and Alabama together and keep the obligation label. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Where are the parent Alabama and NAICS 332312 tables?

Use /states/al/ for the statewide industry mix, /industries/332312/ for the national industry page, /states/al/industries/ for the state NAICS index, and /ties/ for other joins. This page quotes only the 332312 × AL cell. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.