Miscellaneous manufacturing
This subsector comprises establishments, not classified to any other subsector, primarily engaged in manufacturing activities. These establishments manufacture a diverse range of products, such as medical equipment and supplies, jewellery, sporting goods, toys and office supplies. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A
- Establishments · CanadaA
- 5,175
- Under 10 employeesA
- 74%
- Establishments · USA
- 24,004
- Employment · USA
- 556,575
- Payroll · USA
- $39.4B
Size and shape
How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.
Canadian establishments by number of employeesA
Of 5,175 Canadian establishments with employees, 74% have fewer than ten — mostly small operators.
Where they areA
Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.
Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.
How businesses here compete
The structural profile of subsector 339, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.
A residual holding unlike businesses — medical devices, dental labs, signs, jewellery, sporting goods. Each needs reading on its own.
- Who sets the price
- Varies by niche — dental labs take the dentist's price, medical devices a regulated one.
- The software it runs on
- Niche-specific: dental lab management, quality systems for devices.
Market screens and studies
Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.
Two forces have taken the middle of this trade at once: chairside milling moved single-unit crowns into the dentist's own office, and digital scanning made it trivial to send the rest of the case to a large offshore lab overnight. What survives is complex removable and implant work at the top and price competition at the bottom. The dental practices this lab would serve are themselves consolidating — see the practice-acquisition record at 621210 — and consolidated groups negotiate lab pricing centrally. The offshore lab in that sentence is now a listed company, and it publishes. Modern Dental Group produces in Mainland China, Thailand and Vietnam and sells into Europe, North America and Australia: HK$3,736.5M of 2025 revenue at a 55.8% gross margin, HK$696.4M of it earned in North America, on about 1,039,000 digital-solution cases, up 32.7% in the year [A]. That margin is what a low-cost production base buys, and it is the margin a domestic lab is asked to price against on the same crown. The firms taking the other end of the case are no smaller — Dentsply Sirona turned $3,680.0M in 2025, Envista $2,719.5M and Align $4,035.0M [A] — and each of them is selling the dentist a reason to keep the work in the operatory. What is left is complex removable and implant work that neither travels well nor mills chairside: a real trade, but a much smaller one than the 1,410 Canadian establishments in this code would suggest.
3399 is a residual holding several unrelated niches, so this screen ran on its two most reachable — dental laboratories and sign manufacture — rather than on the code as a whole. Dental labs cut on who the buyer became. Dental Service Organisations are consolidating practices and then buying or contracting labs at negotiated volume rates, and the top 50 firms already take over 46% of industry revenue [C]; chairside milling moves the simplest, most profitable cases out of the lab entirely. Sign manufacture cuts on the same mechanism a rung down: the profitable work is national-account rollouts, which go to fabricators with installation networks. A second finding, and the more useful one: the published sizing for dental labs is irreconcilable — $9.2B, $10.39B and $6.3B all appear for overlapping definitions, and lab counts of 4,566 and 27,000+ are both in circulation. No figure here should be used for a decision.
Software serving this industry
The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.
Catalogued categories — named, not analysed
And what every business buys · 33 generic categories
Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.
Companies in this industry · 18
Every company this research names that is filed here or beneath — the operators, and the vendors that sell to them — largest disclosed revenue first. The rank is within the company’s own six-digit industry.
| Company | Filed under | Revenue | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| AlignNASDAQ:ALGN | Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing3391 | $4.0B | 1/17 |
| Dentsply SironaNASDAQ:XRAY | Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing3391 | $3.7B | 2/17 |
| enVistaPrivate | Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing3391 | $2.7B | 3/17 |
| DaktronicsNASDAQ:DAKT | Other miscellaneous manufacturing3399 | $839M | 1/1 |
| QT9 SoftwarePrivate | Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing3391 | — | 4/17 |
| ComplianceQuestPrivate | Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing3391 | — | 5/17 |
| Dot CompliancePrivate | Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing3391 | — | 6/17 |
| Glidewell Dental and the large North American production labsPrivate | Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing3391 | — | 7/17 |
| Greenlight GuruPrivate | Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing3391 | — | 8/17 |
| KneatPrivate | Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing3391 | — | 9/17 |
| MasterControlPrivate | Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing3391 | — | 10/17 |
| Modern Dental GroupHKG:3600 | Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing3391 | — | 11/17 |
| QualioPrivate | Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing3391 | — | 12/17 |
| SAP QMPrivate | Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing3391 | — | 13/17 |
| ScilifePrivate | Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing3391 | — | 14/17 |
And 3 more on the companies page.
Who works here
The occupations employed in Manufacturing, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.
Tagged to this industry
Concentrated in this sectorA
These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.
And the jobs every business has
Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. But note the shape of this industry: 74% of establishments have fewer than ten employees, and at that size most of these roles are one person wearing several hats, or bought in from outside.
Inside this industry
2 rows sit directly beneath 339, and 16 in all once every level is counted. Each has a base report of its own.
| Code | Industry | Establishments · CA | What is known |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3391 | Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing | 1,410 | Dental Laboratory OperationeQMS — Electronic Quality Management for Manufacturers, Medical-Device and Pharma Makers |
| 3399 | Other miscellaneous manufacturing | 3,765 | Dental Laboratory & Sign Manufacturing |