MANUFACTURE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE MACHINERY

This sub-class includes the manufacture, repair and/or maintenance of: - tractors used in agriculture and forestry - walking (pedestrian-controlled) tractors - mowers, including lawnmowers - agricultural self-loading or self-unloading trailers or semi-trailers - agricultural machinery for soil preparation, planting or fertilising (e.g., ploughs, manure spreaders, seeders, harrows) - harvesting or threshing machinery (e.g., harvesters, threshers, sorters) - milking machines - spraying machinery for agricultural use - diverse agricultural machinery (e.g., poultry-keeping machinery, bee-keeping machinery, equipment for preparing fodder; machines for cleaning, sorting or grading eggs, fruit) - machinery for vertical farming

This sub-class includes the manufacture and/or repair of metal cutting machinery and/or machine tools. Units in this sub-class are primarily engaged in: - manufacture of machine tools for turning, drilling, milling, shaping, planing, boring, grinding, lathing etc. - manufacture of stationary rotary or rotary percussion drills, filing machines, riveters, sheet metal cutters etc.

This sub-class includes the manufacture and/or repair of metal forming machinery and/or machine tools. Units in this sub-class are primarily engaged in: - manufacture of machine tools for working metals, including those using a laser beam, ultrasonic waves, plasma arc, magnetic pulse, etc. - manufacture of stamping or pressing machine tools - manufacture of punch presses, hydraulic presses, hydraulic/press brakes, drop hammers, forging machines/presses, cold heading machines etc. - manufacture of draw-benches, thread rollers or machines for working wires

This sub-class includes the manufacture and/or repair of special tools and/or fixtures, such as cutting dies and/or jigs. Units in this sub-class are also known as tool and/or die shops.

This sub-class includes the manufacture and/or repair of machine tool accessories and/or attachments for metal cutting and/or metal forming machine tools, for instance: - small cutting tools, knives and/or bits for metalworking lathes, planers, and/or shapers manufacturing - measuring attachments (e.g., sine bars) for machine tool manufacturing - metalworking drill bits manufacturing - machine tool holder attachments

This sub-class includes the manufacture and repair of metal-forming machinery and machine tools not elsewhere classified. Examples: - machinery for metallurgy manufacturing - machinery for metallurgy repair and maintenance - metalworking machinery manufacturing and/or repair

This sub-class includes the manufacture and/or repair of oil rigs.

This sub-class includes the manufacture and/or repair of other oilfield and/or gasfield machinery and/or equipment, such as: - oilfield and/or gasfield derricks and/or tool joints - continuous-action elevators and/or conveyors for underground use in oilfield and/or gasfield - boring, cutting, sinking and/or tunnelling machinery (whether or not for underground use) in oilfield and/or gasfield - machinery for treating minerals by screening, sorting, separating, washing, crushing, etc. in oilfield and/or gasfield - earth-moving machinery (e.g., bulldozers, angle-dozers, graders, scrapers, levellers, mechanical shovels, shovel loaders) in oilfield and/or gasfield - track-laying tractors and/or tractors used in oilfield and/or gasfield

This sub-class includes the manufacture and/or repair of machinery and/or parts for construction use, for instance: - continuous-action elevators and/or conveyors for underground use in construction - boring, cutting, sinking and/or tunnelling machinery (whether or not for underground use) for use in construction - machinery for treating minerals by screening, sorting, separating, washing, crushing, etc. for use in construction - concrete and/or mortar mixers for use in construction - earth-moving machinery (e.g., bulldozers, angle-dozers, graders, scrapers, levellers, mechanical shovels, shovel loaders) for use in construction - pile drivers and/or pile extractors, mortar spreaders, bitumen spreaders, concrete surfacing machinery etc. for use in construction - track-laying tractors and/or tractors used in construction - bulldozer and/or angle-dozer blades for use in construction - off-road dumping trucks for use in construction

This sub-class includes the manufacture and repair of machinery for mining, quarrying and construction not elsewhere classified. Examples: - boring machine manufacturing (except oilfield, gasfield and/or construction) - boring machine, repair and/or maintenance (except oilfield, gasfield and/or construction) - drilling and boring machine, manufacturing (except oilfield, gasfield and/or construction)

This sub-class includes the manufacture, repair and/or maintenance of machinery for food products processing, for instance: - agricultural dryers - cheese-making machines (e.g., homogenisers, moulders, presses) - machinery for the grain milling industry e.g., machinery to clean, sort or grade seeds, grain or dried leguminous vegetables (winnowers, sieving belts, separators, grain brushing machines, etc.) - machinery to produce flour and/or meal etc. (grinding mills, feeders, sifters, bran cleaners, blenders, rice hullers, pea splitters) - machinery for the bakery industry or for making macaroni, spaghetti or similar products (e.g., bakery ovens, dough mixers, dough-dividers, moulders, slicers, cake depositing machines) - machines and/or equipment to process diverse foods e.g., machinery to make confectionery, cocoa or chocolate; to manufacture sugar; to process meat or poultry; to prepare fruit, nuts or vegetables; to prepare fish, shellfish or other seafood, machinery for filtering and/or purifying, other machinery for the industrial preparation or manufacture of food - machinery for the extraction or preparation of animal or vegetable fats or oils - machinery for the preparation of food in hotels and/or restaurants

This sub-class includes the manufacture, repair and/or maintenance of machinery for beverage products processing, for instance: - machinery for the dairy industry e.g., cream separators - milk processing machinery (e.g., homogenisers) - milk converting machinery (e.g., butter chums, butter workers and/or moulding machines) - presses, crushers etc. used to make wine, cider, fruit juices, etc. - machines and/or equipment to process diverse foods e.g., machinery for breweries - other machinery for the industrial preparation or manufacture of drinks - machinery for the preparation of drinks in hotels and/or restaurants

This sub-class includes the manufacture, repair and/or maintenance of machinery for the preparation of tobacco and/or for the making of cigarettes or cigars, or for pipe or chewing tobacco or snuff.

This sub-class includes the manufacture, repair and/or maintenance of: - textile machinery e.g., machines for preparing, producing, extruding, drawing, texturing or cutting man-made textile fibres, materials or yarns, machines for preparing textile fibres: cotton gins, bale breakers, garnetters, cotton spreaders, wool scourers, wool carbonisers, combs, carders, roving frames etc., spinning machines, machines for preparing textile yarns: reelers, warpers and/or related machines, weaving machines (looms), including hand looms, knitting machines, machines for making knotted net, tulle, lace, braid, etc. auxiliary machines or equipment for textile machinery (e.g., dobbies, jacquards, automatic stop motions, shuttle changing mechanisms, spindles and/or spindle flyers) - textile printing machinery - machinery for fabric processing (e.g., machinery for washing, bleaching, dyeing, dressing, finishing, coating or impregnating textile fabrics) - machines for reeling, unreeling, folding, cutting or pinking textile fabrics - laundry machinery (e.g., ironing machines, including fusing presses, commercial washing and/or drying machines, dry-cleaning machines) - sewing machines, sewing machine heads and/or sewing machine needles (whether or not for household use) - machines for producing or finishing felt or non-wovens - leather machines (e.g., machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides, skins or leather, machinery for making or repairing footwear or other articles of hides, skins, leather or fur skins)

This sub-class includes the manufacture of probe cards.

This sub-class includes the manufacture of semiconductor bonding tools.

This sub-class includes the manufacture, repair and/or maintenance of semiconductor assembly and/or packaging machinery, such as computer burn-in systems.

This sub-class includes the manufacture, repair and/or maintenance of: - semiconductor foundry equipment - semiconductor wafer processing equipment - semiconductor etc.hing equipment

This sub-class includes the manufacture, repair and/or maintenance of water/wastewater treatment equipment and/or components.

This sub-class includes the manufacture and/or repair of plastics processing machinery. This includes machines for making a specific plastic product.

This sub-class includes the manufacture and/or repair of additive manufacturing (AM) equipment, such as three-dimensional (3D) printer manufacturing. Metal, polymer (e.g., plastic), ceramic etc. additive manufacturing equipment are included.

This sub-class includes the manufacture and repair of other special-purpose machinery that are not elsewhere classified. Examples: - manufacture of industrial mixing equipment for chemicals and/or paints - manufacture of printing and/or bookbinding machines - manufacture of aircraft launching gear, aircraft carrier catapults and related equipment - manufacture of fairground amusement equipment - manufacture of sawmill/woodworking machinery