NAICS 321114 · Manufacturing
Wood Preservation: Business Name Ideas
48 name ideas, the official industry definition, and 361 U.S. business locations broken down by state.
What this industry covers
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) treating wood sawed, planed, or shaped in other establishments with creosote or other preservatives, such as alkaline copper quat, copper azole, and sodium borates, to prevent decay and to protect against fire and insects and/or (2) sawing round wood poles, pilings, and posts and treating them with preservatives.
Businesses classified here include
- Bridge and trestle parts, wood, treating
- Creosoting of wood
- Crossties, treating
- Flooring, wood block, treating
- Millwork, treating
- Mine props, treating
- Mine ties, wood, treated, manufacturing
- Pilings, foundation and marine construction, treating
- Pilings, round wood, cutting and treating
- Pilings, wood, treating
- Poles, round wood, cutting and treating
- Poles, wood, treating
- Posts, round wood, cutting and treating
- Posts, wood, treating
- Preserving purchased wood and wood products
- Pressure treated lumber made from purchased lumber
- Railroad ties (i.e., bridge, cross, switch) treating
- Structural lumber and timber, treating
- Ties, wood railroad bridge, cross, and switch, treating
- Timber, structural, treating
- Treating purchased wood and wood products
- Treating wood products with creosote or other preservatives
- Trestle parts, wood, treating
- Wood fence (i.e., pickets, poling, rails), treating
- Wood products, creosoting purchased wood products
Definition and examples from the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 321114), U.S. Census Bureau.
Name ideas for wood preservation
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Name words that fit, with their meanings
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 wood preservation
- North Carolina 24 locations
- Georgia 21 locations
- Alabama 19 locations
- Texas 19 locations
- Florida 18 locations
- Virginia 18 locations
- Pennsylvania 17 locations
- California 16 locations
- Oregon 16 locations
- Mississippi 14 locations
All 33 states
- Alabama (19)
- Arkansas (9)
- California (16)
- Colorado (4)
- Florida (18)
- Georgia (21)
- Idaho (7)
- Illinois (4)
- Indiana (11)
- Kentucky (8)
- Louisiana (8)
- Maine (4)
- Massachusetts (3)
- Michigan (10)
- Minnesota (4)
- Mississippi (14)
- Missouri (6)
- Montana (5)
- Nebraska (3)
- New York (7)
- North Carolina (24)
- Ohio (11)
- Oklahoma (3)
- Oregon (16)
- Pennsylvania (17)
- South Carolina (12)
- South Dakota (6)
- Tennessee (5)
- Texas (19)
- Virginia (18)
- Washington (13)
- West Virginia (6)
- Wisconsin (9)