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NACE Codes for Plastics
NACE 20.16 Manufacture of plastics in primary forms. NACE 22.21 Manufacture of plastic plates, sheets, tubes and profiles. NACE 22.22 Plastic packaging goods. Used to identify customer industries.
Why it matters for procurement
Understanding nace codes for plastics matters whenever you need to translate a producer's technical data sheet into a procurement specification. Misreading the term can result in pricing the wrong material or accepting a non-compliant lot.
When you submit an RFQ, naming the relevant standard or property explicitly (rather than relying on a generic equivalent) reduces re-quote cycles and accelerates routing to the supplier with the matching grade in stock.