This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of supplies for machinery and equipment generally used in manufacturing, oil well, and warehousing activities. Illustrative Examples: Industrial containers merchant wholesalers Industrial diamonds merchant wholesalers Printing inks merchant wholesalers Industrial sand merchant wholesalers Refractory materials (e.g., brick, blocks, shapes) merchant wholesalers Welding supplies (except welding gases) merchant wholesalers Establishments primarily engaged in--

Including:

• Abrasives merchant wholesalers
• Barrels, new and reconditioned, merchant wholesalers
• Bearings merchant wholesalers
• Belting, industrial, merchant wholesalers
• Bottles (except waste) merchant wholesalers
• Box shooks merchant wholesalers
• Boxes and crates, industrial (except disposable plastics, paperboard, waste), merchant wholesalers
• Brushes, industrial, merchant wholesalers
• Canning supplies merchant wholesalers
• Cartons (except paper and paperboard) merchant wholesalers
• Closures, industrial, merchant wholesalers
• Containers, industrial, merchant wholesalers
• Cooperage stock merchant wholesalers
• Cordage merchant wholesalers
• Cork merchant wholesalers
• Crowns and closures, metal, merchant wholesalers
• Diamonds, industrial, merchant wholesalers
• Drives and gears merchant wholesalers
• Drums, new and reconditioned, merchant wholesalers
• Excelsior (e.g., pads, wrappers) merchant wholesalers
• Fire hydrants merchant wholesalers
• Fittings, industrial, merchant wholesalers
• Gaskets merchant wholesalers
• Gears merchant wholesalers
• General-line industrial supplies merchant wholesalers
• Grommets merchant wholesalers
• Hose, industrial, merchant wholesalers
• Industrial containers merchant wholesalers
• Industrial diamonds merchant wholesalers
• Industrial leather products merchant wholesalers
• Industrial pottery products merchant wholesalers
• Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers
• Inks, printing, merchant wholesalers
• Lapidary equipment, industrial, merchant wholesalers
• Mechanical power transmission supplies (e.g., gears, pulleys, sprockets) merchant wholesalers
• Mechanical rubber goods merchant wholesalers
• Mill supplies merchant wholesalers
• Packaging materials merchant wholesalers
• Packing materials merchant wholesalers
• Pipe fittings and valves (except plumbing) merchant wholesalers
• Pistons and valves, industrial, merchant wholesalers
• Plastics foam packing and packaging materials merchant wholesalers
• Power transmission supplies (e.g., gears, pulleys, sprockets), mechanical, merchant wholesalers
• Printing inks merchant wholesalers
• Reconditioned barrels and drums merchant wholesalers
• Refractory materials (e.g., block, brick, mortar, tile) merchant wholesalers
• Ropes (except wire rope) merchant wholesalers
• Rubber goods, mechanical (i.e., extruded, lathe-cut, molded), merchant wholesalers
• Sand, industrial, merchant wholesalers
• Seals merchant wholesalers
• Shipping containers (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers
• Shipping pails, metal, merchant wholesalers
• Speed changers merchant wholesalers
• Sprockets merchant wholesalers
• Thread, industrial, merchant wholesalers
• Towels, industrial, merchant wholesalers
• Twine merchant wholesalers
• Valves (except hydraulic, plumbing, pneumatic) merchant wholesalers
• Welding supplies (except welding gases) merchant wholesalers
• Wiping cloths merchant wholesalers