NAICS 3322Industry group · 4-digitregional market1 market record

Cutlery and hand tool manufacturing

SoftwareJob Shop & Metal Fabrication ERP 332

This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing non-precious and precious plated cutlery and flatware. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing files and other hand and edge tools for metalworking, woodworking and general maintenance are included. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 128
Under 10 employeesA: 68%
Establishments · USA: 1,032
Employment · USA: 33,171
Payroll · USA: $2.0B

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

1–45644%

5–93124%

10–192116%

20–49119%

50–9922%

100–19943%

200–49922%

500+11%

Of 128 Canadian establishments with employees, 68% have fewer than ten — mostly small operators.

Where they areA

Ontario6652%

Quebec2923%

British Columbia2016%

Alberta65%

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.

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 332, 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.

regional competitionmedium capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 332 Fabricated metal product manufacturing

The classic machine and fabrication shop: reachable by acquisition from a retiring owner, limited by machine hours and skilled labour, and exposed to a few large customers.

Who sets the price: The customer's drawing and a competitive quote.
The software it runs on: Job-shop ERP, quoting, scheduling, CAD/CAM.

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.

Operating businessScreened

Hand Tool & Knife MakingExecution decides

binding constraint: distribution

The pre-screen called hand tools "an import-and-brand category, not a manufacturing entry". The count agrees about who is actually here: 87 of Canada's 128 establishments, 68%, have fewer than ten employees [A]. These are knife makers, edge-tool smiths, specialty woodworking-tool makers and saw-blade shops. Making the thing is reachable — a forge, grinders, heat-treat, a few CNC machines. At that scale it is a craft business and a good one for the person who wants it. The question a screen asks is whether it becomes more than that. The obstacle is the shelf. Stanley Black & Decker's Tools & Outdoor segment — Stanley, DeWalt, Craftsman, Irwin, Lenox — took $13,158M of net sales in 2025 on a 10.7% adjusted segment margin, inside a company whose full-year sales fell 2% to $15.1B, 1% organically, after a cost programme that has removed about $2.1B of annual cost since mid-2022 [A]. Read that as a description of the channel. Mainstream hand tools reach users through a few home-improvement and industrial distributors whose planograms are negotiated with a supplier of that size, in a category where that supplier's own sales are falling and its energy is going into making the same tools cheaper. A new maker cannot buy its way onto that shelf and cannot match the landed cost if it did. What remains is direct sale of a premium tool to an enthusiast — mail order, the maker's own site, a specialist retailer. That works, and Canada has well-known examples, but each one is bounded by the size of its enthusiast audience, and none publishes results, so how far the ceiling sits above a good living was not established. The ERP software sold to metal shops on this branch is screened separately.

NAICS 33224 vendors named10 sourced figuresOpen →

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 332 Fabricated metal product manufacturing

Job Shop & Metal Fabrication ERPExecution decides

binding constraint: distribution

Incumbent ECI Software Solutions (JobBOSS²) and Epicor

There are tens of thousands of machine and fabrication shops and no channel that reaches them — they are not on LinkedIn, they buy at trade shows and from their machine-tool distributor, and the ACV does not fund a field sales force. ECI and Epicor got there through decades of distributor relationships rather than through product. Nothing is disclosed here. Every vendor named on this record is private, or sits inside a parent that does not break the line out, so no revenue floor can be built and the market size is genuinely unknown rather than estimated.

NAICS 3324 vendors namedOpen →

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.

Companies in this industry · 5

Every company this research names that is filed here or beneath — the operators, and the vendors that sell to them — largest disclosed revenue first. The rank is within the company’s own six-digit industry.

Company	Filed under	Revenue	Rank
Snap-OnNYSE:SNA	Cutlery and hand tool manufacturing3322	$5.2B	1/5
FiskarsFKRAF	Cutlery and hand tool manufacturing3322	—	2/5
Klein ToolsPrivate	Cutlery and hand tool manufacturing3322	—	3/5
STANLEY Black & DeckerNYSE:SWK	Cutlery and hand tool manufacturing3322	—	4/5
Techtronic IndustriesTTNDF	Cutlery and hand tool manufacturing3322	—	5/5

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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Inside this industry

1 row sits directly beneath 3322, and 2 in all once every level is counted. Each has a base report of its own.

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
33221	Cutlery and hand tool manufacturing	128	screened at 3322

Alongside it, under 332 Fabricated metal product manufacturing

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
3321	Forging and stamping	181	Forging & Stamping Shop
3323	Architectural and structural metals manufacturing	2,373	Structural Steel Fabrication Shop
3324	Boiler, tank and shipping container manufacturing	303	Certified Tank & Pressure Vessel Shop
3325	Hardware manufacturing	108	Builders' & Cabinet Hardware Manufacturer
3326	Spring and wire product manufacturing	167	Wire Product & Spring Plant
3327	Machine shops, turned product, and screw, nut and bolt manufacturing	2,497	Machine Shop Acquisition
3328	Coating, engraving, cold and heat treating and allied activities	584	Heat Treating & Plating Shop
3329	Other fabricated metal product manufacturing	1,541	Industrial Valve Manufacturer