Asphalt shingle and coating material manufacturing — NAICS 324122 industry report

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Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–4726%

5–9519%

10–190—

20–4927%

50–99415%

100–199622%

200–499311%

500+0—

Of 27 Canadian establishments with employees, 44% have fewer than ten — an industry where large establishments carry real weight.

Where they areA

Ontario1244%

Quebec519%

British Columbia519%

Alberta415%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA

Manufacturing, US · opened 2020

86.2%

1 year

70.8%

3 years

58.4%

5 years

45.3%

10 years

opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

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How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 324, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

national competitionhigh capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 324 Petroleum and coal product manufacturing

Refining is not an entry market. Asphalt and lubricant blending are regional niches inside it.

Who sets the price: Crude and refined-product markets.
The software it runs on: Process control and hydrocarbon accounting.

03

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

Screened one level up. Nothing is filed at this exact code; the screen for 3241 Petroleum and coal product manufacturing covers it.

Vertical softwareScreenedfiled at 3241

Process Manufacturing & Refining SoftwareStructure decides

binding constraint: entry cost

Incumbent AspenTech

The models encode decades of process engineering that a new entrant cannot reproduce, and every deployment ties to the plant's existing control system. Buyers are a few hundred refineries and chemical complexes globally, each with safety-case review before any software touches operations. Sourced update: the two reference points in this market have both gone dark — AVEVA into Schneider, and AspenTech fully into Emerson for about $7.2B in March 2025. An entrant now competes against balance sheets it cannot see.

NAICS 32416 vendors named5 sourced figuresOpen →

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Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

Sold across the wider branch

Vertical softwareScreenedfiled at 3241 Petroleum and coal product manufacturing

Process Manufacturing & Refining SoftwareStructure decides

binding constraint: entry cost

Incumbent AspenTech

The models encode decades of process engineering that a new entrant cannot reproduce, and every deployment ties to the plant's existing control system. Buyers are a few hundred refineries and chemical complexes globally, each with safety-case review before any software touches operations. Sourced update: the two reference points in this market have both gone dark — AVEVA into Schneider, and AspenTech fully into Emerson for about $7.2B in March 2025. An entrant now competes against balance sheets it cannot see.

NAICS 32416 vendors named5 sourced figuresOpen →

Catalogued categories — named, not analysed

Discrete manufacturing ERP SaaS 31-33

And what every business buys · 25 generic categories

Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.

05

Who works here

The occupations employed in Manufacturing, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Concentrated in this sectorA

Aircraft assemblers and aircraft assembly inspectors One industry 91.3%

Supervisors, assembly and fabrication One industry 88.3%

Machine operators and related workers in pulp and paper production and wood processing and manufacturing One industry 86.1%

Managers in manufacturing and utilities One industry 84.4%

Machine operators and related workers in chemical, plastic and rubber processing One industry 82.7%

Mechanical, electrical and electronics assemblers and inspectors One industry 82.3%

Machine operators and related workers in food, beverage and associated products processing One industry 79.1%

Machine operators and related workers in mineral and metal products processing and manufacturing One industry 77.7%

Furniture, wood, plastic and other products assemblers, finishers and inspectors One industry 73.9%

Machine operators and related workers in textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing One industry 70.8%

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Other technical trades Across the economy 20%

Technical occupations in electronics and electrical engineering Across the economy 16.3%

Shoe repairers, shoemakers and upholsterers Across the economy 15.2%

Administrative and financial supervisors Across the economy 11.6%

Technical inspectors and regulatory officers Across the economy 10.7%

Administrative services managers Across the economy 9.6%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 9.2%

Building maintenance installers, servicers and repairers Across the economy 8.3%

Financial, insurance and related administrative support workers Across the economy 7.7%

Technical occupations in computer and information systems Across the economy 4.8%

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.

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Alongside this industry

This is the most specific level NAICS defines. The other industries under 32412 are its nearest neighbours.

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
324121	Asphalt paving mixture and block manufacturing	292	screened at 3241