NACE-BEL 32.500—Manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies

Where 32.500 sits

1. C Manufacturing
2. 32 Other manufacturing
3. 32.5 Manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies
4. 32.50 Manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies
5. 32.500 Manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies

What 32.500 includes

• The manufacture of surgical drapes and sterile sutures/gauze
• The manufacture of dental filling materials and dental cements (excluding preparations intended to facilitate the adhesion of dentures), dental wax, and other dental plaster-based preparations
• The manufacture of cements for bone repair
• The manufacture of dental laboratory furnaces
• The manufacture of ultrasonic cleaning equipment for laboratory use
• The manufacture of medical-surgical or laboratory sterilizers
• The manufacture of laboratory centrifuges
• The manufacture of furniture for medicine, surgery, dentistry, or veterinary medicine, e.g., • operating tables • examination tables • adjustable beds for clinical use • dental chairs
• The manufacture of articles specifically designed for use exclusively as Implants for medicine, surgery, dentistry, or veterinary medicine (e.g., plates that remain permanently in the body (e.g., to replace a portion or an entire bone))
• The manufacture of syringes, needles, catheters, cannulas, etc.
• Manufacture of instruments and apparatus for dentistry
• Manufacture of dental prosthetic articles and apparatus
• Manufacture of orthopedic and prosthetic equipment
• Manufacture of artificial eyes
• Manufacture of medical thermometers
• Manufacture of ophthalmological articles, corrective eyeglasses, sunglasses, prescription lenses, contact lenses, protective eyewear
• Manufacture of custom-made orthopedic shoes and special insoles for orthopedic treatment
• Manufacture of personal protective masks (e.g., FFP2, FFP3, surgical masks)

What 32.500 excludes

• The mass production of special arch-supporting footwear, see 15.20
• The manufacture of powders and creams for the adhesion of dentures, see 20.42
• The manufacture of cotton wool, gauze, bandages and similar articles (for example, dressings, plasters, poultices, impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical substances), see 21.20
• The manufacture of electromedical and electrotherapeutic equipment, see 26.60
• The manufacture of hearing aids, see 26.60
• The manufacture of wheelchairs, see 30.92
• The retail sale of corrective lenses, glasses and sunglasses, see 47.74

32.500 in other systems