{
    "code": "2869",
    "title": "Industrial Organic Chemicals, Not Elsewhere Classified",
    "sic_manual": "OSHA SIC Manual",
    "level": "Industry",
    "major_group_code": "28",
    "parent_code": "286",
    "parent_title": "Industrial Organic Chemicals",
    "plain_english_definition": "",
    "summary_plain": "",
    "official_definition": "Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing industrial organic chemicals, not elsewhere classified. Important products of this industry include: (1) aliphatic and other acyclic organic chemicals, such as ethylene, butylene, and butadiene; acetic, chloroacetic, adipic, formic, oxalic, and tartaric acids and their metallic salts; chloral, formaldehyde, and methylamine (2) solvents, such as amyl, butyl, and ethyl alcohols; methanol; amyl, butyl, and ethyl acetates; ethyl ether, ethylene glycol ether, and diethylene glycol ether; acetone, carbon disulfide and chlorinated solvents, such as carbon tetrachloride, perchloroethylene, and trichloroethylene (3) polyhydric alcohols, such as ethylene glycol, sorbitol, pentaerythritol, synthetic glycerin (4) synthetic perfume and flavoring materials, such as coumarin, methyl salicylate, saccharin, citral, citronellal, synthetic geraniol, ionone, terpineol, and synthetic vanillin (5) rubber processing chemicals, such as accelerators and antioxidants, both cyclic and acyclic (6) plasticizers, both cyclic and acyclic, such as esters of phosphoric acid, phthalic anhydride, adipic acid, lauric acid, oleic acid, sebacic acid, and stearic acid (7) synthetic tanning agents, such as naphthalene sulfonic acid condensates (8) chemical warfare gases (9) esters, amines, etc., of polyhydric alcohols and fatty and other acids.",
    "official_source": "https://www.osha.gov/sic-manual/2869",
    "classification_note": "",
    "included_activities": [
        "Acetaldehyde",
        "Acetates, except natural acetate of lime",
        "Acetic acid, synthetic",
        "Acetic anhydride",
        "Acetin"
    ],
    "excluded_activities": [
        {
            "label": "Plastics Materials, Synthetic Resins, and Nonvulcanizable Elastomers",
            "code": "2821",
            "title": "Plastics Materials, Synthetic Resins, and Nonvulcanizable Elastomers",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/sic-code/2821/plastics-materials-synthetic-resins-nonvulcanizable-elastomers"
        },
        {
            "label": "Chemicals and Chemical Preparations, Not Elsewhere Classified",
            "code": "2899",
            "title": "Chemicals and Chemical Preparations, Not Elsewhere Classified",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/sic-code/2899/chemicals-chemical-preparations"
        },
        {
            "label": "Gum and Wood Chemicals",
            "code": "2861",
            "title": "Gum and Wood Chemicals",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/sic-code/2861/gum-wood-chemicals"
        },
        {
            "label": "Cellulosic Manmade Fibers",
            "code": "2823",
            "title": "Cellulosic Manmade Fibers",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/sic-code/2823/cellulosic-manmade-fibers"
        },
        {
            "label": "Manmade Organic Fibers, except Cellulosic",
            "code": "2824",
            "title": "Manmade Organic Fibers, except Cellulosic",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/sic-code/2824/manmade-organic-fibers"
        },
        {
            "label": "Specialty Cleaning, Polishing, and Sanitation Preparations",
            "code": "2842",
            "title": "Specialty Cleaning, Polishing, and Sanitation Preparations",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/sic-code/2842/specialty-cleaning-polishing-sanitation-preparations"
        },
        {
            "label": "Paints, Varnishes, Lacquers, Enamels, and Allied Products",
            "code": "2851",
            "title": "Paints, Varnishes, Lacquers, Enamels, and Allied Products",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/sic-code/2851/paints-varnishes-lacquers-enamels-allied-products"
        }
    ],
    "confused_codes": [],
    "official_siblings": [
        {
            "code": "2861",
            "title": "Gum and Wood Chemicals",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/sic-code/2861/gum-wood-chemicals",
            "label": "Industry"
        },
        {
            "code": "2865",
            "title": "Cyclic Organic Crudes and Intermediates, and Organic Dyes and Pigments",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/sic-code/2865/cyclic-organic-crudes-intermediates-organic-dyes-pigments",
            "label": "Industry"
        },
        {
            "code": "2869",
            "title": "Industrial Organic Chemicals, Not Elsewhere Classified",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/sic-code/2869/industrial-organic-chemicals",
            "label": "Industry"
        }
    ],
    "official_children": [],
    "related_naics_codes": [
        {
            "code": "325110",
            "title": "Petrochemical Manufacturing",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/naics-code/325110/petrochemical-manufacturing"
        },
        {
            "code": "325120",
            "title": "Industrial Gas Manufacturing",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/naics-code/325120/industrial-gas-manufacturing"
        },
        {
            "code": "325180",
            "title": "Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing ",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/naics-code/325180/basic-inorganic-chemical-manufacturing"
        },
        {
            "code": "325193",
            "title": "Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing ",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/naics-code/325193/ethyl-alcohol-manufacturing"
        },
        {
            "code": "325194",
            "title": "Cyclic Crude, Intermediate, and Gum and Wood Chemical Manufacturing",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/naics-code/325194/cyclic-crude-intermediate-gum-wood-chemical-manufacturing"
        },
        {
            "code": "325199",
            "title": "All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing ",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/naics-code/325199/basic-organic-chemical-manufacturing"
        },
        {
            "code": "325998",
            "title": "All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/naics-code/325998/chemical-product-preparation-manufacturing"
        }
    ],
    "example_companies": [
        {
            "name": "Methanex Corp",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/methanex-corp",
            "city": "Plano",
            "state": "TX",
            "reviewed": false
        },
        {
            "name": "GFS Chemicals Inc",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/gfs-chemicals-inc",
            "city": "Powell",
            "state": "OH",
            "reviewed": false
        },
        {
            "name": "United Chemical Technologies Inc",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/united-chemical-technologies-inc",
            "city": "Bristol",
            "state": "PA",
            "reviewed": false
        },
        {
            "name": "Wacker Chemical Corp",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/wacker-chemical-corp",
            "city": "Adrian",
            "state": "MI",
            "reviewed": false
        },
        {
            "name": "New Generation Biofuels Holdings Inc",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/new-generation-biofuels-holdings-inc",
            "city": "Columbia",
            "state": "MD",
            "reviewed": false
        },
        {
            "name": "Kraton Chemical Llc",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/kraton-chemical-llc",
            "city": "Jacksonville",
            "state": "FL",
            "reviewed": false
        },
        {
            "name": "Addivant",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/addivant",
            "city": "Morgantown",
            "state": "WV",
            "reviewed": false
        },
        {
            "name": "Danisco Us Inc",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/danisco-us-inc",
            "city": "Cedar Rapids",
            "state": "IA",
            "reviewed": false
        },
        {
            "name": "CP Kelco",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/cp-kelco",
            "city": "Okmulgee",
            "state": "OK",
            "reviewed": false
        },
        {
            "name": "Fuel Tech Inc",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/fuel-tech-inc-2",
            "city": "Warrenville",
            "state": "IL",
            "reviewed": false
        },
        {
            "name": "Organic Technologies",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/organic-technologies",
            "city": "Coshocton",
            "state": "OH",
            "reviewed": false
        }
    ],
    "company_count": 252,
    "email_contact_count": 143,
    "phone_count": 208,
    "website_count": 262,
    "database_as_of": "Nov 13, 2026",
    "count_type": "commercial",
    "count_disclaimer": "These are SICCODE.com commercial database counts, not official government establishment totals. Website-Reviewed & Enriched is a separate review of company websites for products, services, markets, and fit.",
    "canonical_url": "https://siccode.com/sic-code/2869/industrial-organic-chemicals",
    "json_url": "https://siccode.com/sic-code/2869.json",
    "reviewed_by": "Industry Classification Review Team",
    "last_updated": "October 2026"
}