NAICS 33599Industry · 5-digitnational market

All other electrical equipment and component manufacturing

This industry comprises establishments, not classified to any other industry, primarily engaged in manufacturing electrical equipment and components. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 319
Under 10 employeesA: 69%
Establishments · USA: 982
Employment · USA: 46,331
Payroll · USA: $4.5B

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

1–416251%

5–95818%

10–193511%

20–493411%

50–99175%

100–19962%

200–49962%

500+10%

Of 319 Canadian establishments with employees, 69% have fewer than ten — mostly small operators.

Where they areA

Ontario14345%

Quebec6922%

British Columbia5918%

Alberta3110%

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 335, 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 competitionmedium capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 335 Electrical equipment, appliance and component manufacturing

Certification and distributor relationships are the barriers. Electrification is pulling demand forward for transformers and switchgear, where lead times are long.

Who sets the price: Distributors and specifiers; utilities for grid equipment.
The software it runs on: Manufacturing ERP and certification tracking.

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 3359 Other electrical equipment and component manufacturing covers it.

Operating businessScreenedfiled at 3359

Building Wire & Cable MillStructure decides

binding constraint: capital intensity

A residual group holding batteries, wire and cable, wiring devices and a tail of unlike electrical components. The screen takes the one niche with a clean public anchor — building wire and cable — and says plainly that the rest was not examined. The attraction is the same electrification demand that lifts the rest of subsector 335: every data centre, house and grid upgrade is wired with this product, and it is heavy enough that domestic mills hold the market. The anchor shows what holding it takes. In 2024 Prysmian bought Encore Wire for $290.00 a share, an implied enterprise value of about €3.9B — 8.2× 2023 EBITDA [A]. Encore made about $2.6B of revenue and $517M of EBITDA in 2023 from a single vertically integrated campus in McKinney, Texas, which Prysmian's release describes as built for low-cost production and centralised distribution [A]. That is the mechanism: building wire is a copper-conversion business in which the metal is most of the selling price, the product is a certified commodity that electrical distributors buy on price and fill rate, and the winner is whoever draws its own rod, carries the copper inventory and ships a full truck next day. A small mill buys rod at a worse price, carries the same metal exposure on a thinner balance sheet, and sells to distributors who already have two suppliers. The world's largest cable maker chose to buy that position rather than build it. The 207 Canadian establishments under five people are doing something else — harnesses, battery packs, specialty assemblies — and each would need its own record.

NAICS 33595 vendors named9 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.

No vertical software market has been recorded along this branch. What the subsector typically runs on: Manufacturing ERP and certification tracking.

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.

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 33599. Each has a base report of its own.

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
335990	All other electrical equipment and component manufacturing	319	screened at 3359

Alongside it, under 3359 Other electrical equipment and component manufacturing

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
33591	Battery manufacturing	47	screened at 3359
33592	Communication and energy wire and cable manufacturing	79	screened at 3359
33593	Wiring device manufacturing	68	screened at 3359