NAICS 3326Industry group · 4-digitregional market1 market record

Spring and wire product manufacturing

This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing wire products made from purchased wire. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA
167
with employees
Under 10 employeesA
43%
most common size: 10–19
Establishments · USA
1,016
Employment · USA
34,855
34 per establishment
Payroll · USA
$2.0B
$59k per employee
01

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

1–44024%
5–93119%
10–194225%
20–493823%
50–9995%
100–19932%
200–49942%
500+0—

Of 167 Canadian establishments with employees, 43% have fewer than ten — weighted toward mid-sized establishments.

Where they areA

Ontario7545%
Quebec3823%
British Columbia2012%
Alberta148%

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.

02

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.
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.

Operating businessScreened
Wire Product & Spring PlantOne thing must be true
binding constraint: willingness to pay

Buying wire and bending, weaving or welding it into nails, mesh, fencing, racks and springs needs modest machinery, and 113 of Canada's 167 plants employ fewer than twenty people. The cut is who sets the price of a wire product: the import quote. Tree Island Steel of Richmond, B.C. — a listed maker of nails, stucco and concrete mesh, fencing and other fabricated wire products — reported 2025 revenue of $161.8M, down from $207.0M, with gross profit of $9.5M [A]. That is a gross margin under 6% before a dollar of overhead; adjusted EBITDA was $3.0M and the year closed at a $5.3M net loss, the second loss running. The company cut its workforce by 27%, withdrew from product lines it called unprofitable, and lost U.S. volume to expanded tariffs on wire products. A nail or a roll of mesh is specified by gauge and coating, so a distributor can substitute an offshore container for a domestic pallet without the end user noticing, and the domestic plant earns only what is left after matching that price on steel it bought at the North American rod price. An entrant would be the smallest buyer of wire selling into that spread. Custom springs are a different business — made to a customer's drawing, in short runs, with some engineering content — and resemble the job shop more than the wire mill; that niche was not tested here. Software for metal shops is screened separately.

NAICS 33265 vendors named12 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

Catalogued categories — named, not analysed

05

Companies in this industry · 3

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.

CompanyFiled underRevenueRank
Insteel IndustriesNASDAQ:IIINSpring and wire product manufacturing3326$648M1/3
Tree Island SteelTSX:TSLSpring and wire product manufacturing3326$162M2/3
Imported wire productPrivateSpring and wire product manufacturing3326—3/3
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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.

And the jobs every business has

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

All 162 occupations →

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Inside this industry

1 row sits directly beneath 3326, and 3 in all once every level is counted. Each has a base report of its own.

CodeIndustryEstablishments · CAWhat is known
33261Spring and wire product manufacturing167screened at 3326

Alongside it, under 332 Fabricated metal product manufacturing