Manufacturing capacity for Gaston County, NC

Name: Injection Molding Cost Checker Capacity Index: Gaston County, NC
Creator: Injection Molding Cost Checker
Published: 2026-09-09
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The Census counts 57 establishments in Gaston County across the classes this site tracks.

plastics product plants: 7
machine shops: 41
sheet metal shops: 6
people employed: 1,271

How this compares to North Carolina

Gaston County57
North Carolina819

How this compares to North Carolina

North Carolina overall: 819 establishments across the five classes, of which machine shops are the largest. Gaston County sits below the state's typical county for these classes.

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In Gaston County, NC the custom manufacturing establishments was 57.

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Custom manufacturing establishments · Gaston County, NC · 2022

manufacturing establishments	1,271

Source: Injection Molding Cost Checker Capacity Index: Gaston County, NC

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Source: US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022 (state file, all legal forms of organisation)

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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.

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