NACE Code 24 – Manufacture of Basic Metals

This division includes the activities of smelting and/or refining ferrous and non-ferrous metals from ore, pig or scrap, using electrometallurgic and other process metallurgic techniques.
This division also includes the manufacture of metal alloys and super-alloys by introducing other chemical elements to pure metals. The output of smelting and refining, usually in ingot form, is used in rolling, drawing and extruding operations to make products such as plate, sheet, strip, bars, rods, wire or tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, and in molten form to make castings and other basic metal products. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}

Group 24.1 – Manufacture of basic iron and steel and of ferro-alloys

• 24.10 – Manufacture of basic iron and steel and of ferro-alloys

Group 24.2 – Manufacture of tubes, pipes, hollow profiles and related fittings, of steel

• 24.20 – Manufacture of tubes, pipes, hollow profiles and related fittings, of steel

Group 24.3 – Manufacture of other products of first processing of steel

• 24.31 – Cold drawing of bars
• 24.32 – Cold rolling of narrow strip
• 24.33 – Cold forming or folding
• 24.34 – Cold drawing of wire

Group 24.4 – Manufacture of basic precious and other non-ferrous metals

• 24.41 – Precious metals production
• 24.42 – Aluminium production
• 24.43 – Lead, zinc and tin production
• 24.44 – Copper production
• 24.45 – Other non-ferrous metal production
• 24.46 – Processing of nuclear fuel

Group 24.5 – Casting of metals

• 24.51 – Casting of iron
• 24.52 – Casting of steel
• 24.53 – Casting of light metals
• 24.54 – Casting of other non-ferrous metals