Pottery, Ceramics, and Plumbing Fixture Manufacturing: Business Name Ideas

What this industry covers

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in shaping, molding, glazing, and firing pottery, ceramics, plumbing fixtures, and electrical supplies made entirely or partly of clay or other ceramic materials.

Businesses classified here include

• Advanced and technical ceramic products manufacturing
• Alumina porcelain insulators manufacturing
• Architectural sculptures, clay, manufacturing
• Ashtrays, pottery, manufacturing
• Bathroom accessories, vitreous china and earthenware, manufacturing
• Beryllia porcelain insulators manufacturing
• Bidets, vitreous china, manufacturing
• Bone china manufacturing
• Chemical stoneware (i.e., pottery products) manufacturing
• China cooking ware manufacturing
• China tableware, vitreous, manufacturing
• Clay and ceramic statuary manufacturing
• Cones, pyrometric, earthenware, manufacturing
• Cooking ware (e.g., stoneware, coarse earthenware, pottery), manufacturing
• Cooking ware, china, manufacturing
• Cooking ware, fine earthenware, manufacturing
• Crockery manufacturing
• Decalcomania on china and glass for the trade
• Decorating china (e.g., encrusting gold, silver, other metal on china) for the trade
• Dishes, pottery, manufacturing
• Drinking fountains, vitreous china, non-refrigerated, manufacturing
• Earthenware table and kitchen articles, coarse, manufacturing
• Earthenware, commercial and household, semivitreous, manufacturing
• Ecclesiastical statuary, clay, manufacturing
• Electrical insulators, ceramic, manufacturing
• Electrical supplies, ceramic, manufacturing
• Faucet handles, vitreous china and earthenware, manufacturing
• Filtering media, pottery, manufacturing
• Firing china for the trade
• Florists' articles, red earthenware, manufacturing

Definition and examples from the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 327110), U.S. Census Bureau.

Name ideas for pottery, ceramics, and plumbing fixture manufacturing

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Name words that fit, with their meanings

• Clay
• Kiln
• Wheel
• Glaze
• Pot
• Earth
• Pottery
• Ceramic
• Plumbing
• Fixture

U.S. business numbers

Locations by number of employees nationwide

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022. Counts cover employer establishments (businesses with paid employees); self-employed owners without staff are not included. Small establishments with 1–4 employees include those that reported no paid employees in mid-March.

Top states for pottery, ceramics, and plumbing fixture manufacturing

1. California 76 locations
2. Pennsylvania 34 locations
3. North Carolina 33 locations
4. Texas 28 locations
5. Ohio 26 locations
6. Florida 21 locations
7. New York 21 locations
8. Colorado 20 locations
9. Oregon 17 locations
10. Georgia 16 locations

All 39 states

• Alabama (4)
• Arizona (15)
• Arkansas (4)
• California (76)
• Colorado (20)
• Florida (21)
• Georgia (16)
• Illinois (14)
• Indiana (5)
• Kansas (3)
• Kentucky (4)
• Louisiana (4)
• Maine (10)
• Maryland (13)
• Massachusetts (15)
• Michigan (10)
• Minnesota (11)
• Mississippi (9)
• Missouri (10)
• Montana (4)
• Nevada (4)
• New Hampshire (4)
• New Jersey (12)
• New Mexico (15)
• New York (21)
• North Carolina (33)
• Ohio (26)
• Oklahoma (3)
• Oregon (17)
• Pennsylvania (34)
• South Carolina (8)
• Tennessee (11)
• Texas (28)
• Utah (11)
• Vermont (13)
• Virginia (9)
• Washington (16)
• West Virginia (8)
• Wisconsin (14)

Popular business types in this industry

• Pottery Studio names

Related industries

• Clay Building Material and Refractories Manufacturing