Custom manufacturing capacity in Iowa The Census Bureau's published establishment, employment and payroll counts for Iowa across the five classes this site tracks.
More These are counts of plants, never a directory and never an endorsement; methodology at the foot of the page.
plastics product plants 80
machine shops 169
sheet metal shops 43
tool and die shops 20
people employed 12,400 By county plastics, largest first
Classes with fewer than 30 establishments are suppressed or sparse in the published series for smaller states; treat those as context and lean on the national figures for planning.
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Get listed Sources, citation and related pages Cite or embed this figure The custom manufacturing establishments in Iowa was 321 in 2022, across 321 manufacturing establishments recorded in the US Custom Manufacturing Capacity Index (Census County Business Patterns 2022).
Cite as: "Injection Molding Cost Checker Capacity Index: Iowa", updated 2026-09-09, https://injectionmoldingcostchecker.com/capacity/iowa/.
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Methodology: Establishment, employment and annual payroll counts for the five NAICS classes this hub's processes are counted in, read from the Census Bureau's keyless County Business Patterns state file for 2022. No NAICS class means 'injection moulding shop', so every class is labelled with its Census name and never with a process name: 326199 is All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing, the class injection moulders share with other plastics converters. Machine Shops (332710) and Sheet Metal Work Manufacturing (332322) publish for all 50 states; Special Die and Tool (333514) and Metal Stamping (332119) are suppressed in smaller states and their absence is recorded rather than filled. Payroll is Census annual payroll in thousands of dollars. This index counts CAPACITY, not vendors we have any relationship with.