This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of products of the primary metals industries. Service centers maintain inventory and may perform functions, such as sawing, shearing, bending, leveling, cleaning, or edging, on a custom basis as part of sales transactions. Illustrative Examples: Cast iron pipe merchant wholesalers Metal rods merchant wholesalers Metal bars (except precious) merchant wholesalers Metal sheets merchant wholesalers Metal spikes merchant wholesalers Metal ingots (except precious) merchant wholesalers Metal pipe merchant wholesalers Nails merchant wholesalers Metal plates merchant wholesalers Noninsulated wire merchant wholesalers Establishments primarily engaged in--

Including:

• Aluminum and aluminum alloy primary forms merchant wholesalers
• Aluminum foil, plate, sheet, coil, and roll products merchant wholesalers
• Bars, metal (except precious), merchant wholesalers
• Bearing piles, metal, merchant wholesalers
• Billets, metal, merchant wholesalers
• Black plate merchant wholesalers
• Blooms, metal, merchant wholesalers
• Cable, wire (except insulated), merchant wholesalers
• Carbon and alloy steel primary forms merchant wholesalers
• Cast iron pipe merchant wholesalers
• Castings, metal, merchant wholesalers
• Concrete reinforcing bars merchant wholesalers
• Copper and copper alloy primary forms merchant wholesalers
• Ferroalloys merchant wholesalers
• Ferrous metals merchant wholesalers
• Forgings, metal, merchant wholesalers
• Foundry products merchant wholesalers
• Galvanized iron and steel products merchant wholesalers
• Grinding balls merchant wholesalers
• Ingots (except precious) merchant wholesalers
• Lead primary forms merchant wholesalers
• Metal pipe merchant wholesalers
• Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers
• Metals sales offices
• Metals service centers
• Metals, ferrous and nonferrous, merchant wholesalers
• Nails merchant wholesalers
• Nickel and nickel alloy primary forms merchant wholesalers
• Nonferrous metals (except precious) merchant wholesalers
• Noninsulated wire merchant wholesalers
• Pig iron merchant wholesalers
• Pilings, metal, merchant wholesalers
• Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers
• Poles, metal, merchant wholesalers
• Posts, metal, merchant wholesalers
• Rails and accessories, metal, merchant wholesalers
• Reinforcement mesh and wire merchant wholesalers
• Rods, metal (except precious), merchant wholesalers
• Ropes, wire (except insulated), merchant wholesalers
• Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers
• Sewer pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers
• Spikes, metal, merchant wholesalers
• Springs, steel, merchant wholesalers
• Stainless steel merchant wholesalers
• Steel merchant wholesalers
• Steel wire cloth (screening) merchant wholesalers
• Steel wool merchant wholesalers
• Storage tanks, metal, merchant wholesalers
• Strips, metal (except precious), merchant wholesalers
• Structural assemblies, metal, merchant wholesalers
• Tanks, storage metal, merchant wholesalers
• Terneplate merchant wholesalers
• Tin and tin alloy primary forms merchant wholesalers
• Tin plate merchant wholesalers
• Tubing, metal, merchant wholesalers
• Wire (except insulated) merchant wholesalers
• Wire and cable (except electrical) merchant wholesalers
• Wire rope (except insulated) merchant wholesalers
• Wire screening merchant wholesalers
• Zinc and zinc alloy primary forms merchant wholesalers