Publish Date: September 2026
Updated Tariff & Recession Risk Analysis and Forecasts
The 2026 Cooking Oils Refining & Production Market Report covers the $13 billion industry which operates with a bifurcated market structure featuring large-scale refiners serving retail and foodservice channels alongside specialty producers focused on premium segments including cold-pressed, unrefined, and exotic oil varieties. Consumer preferences are shifting decisively toward minimally processed options with superior nutritional profiles, artisanal production methods, and transparent sourcing stories. Manufacturers face complex operational challenges balancing refining efficiency, quality preservation, shelf-life requirements, packaging innovation, and tariff considerations affecting both raw material imports and export market access. Industry leaders are establishing competitive advantages through gentle processing technologies that maintain nutritional integrity, specialized capabilities for emerging oil types, sustainable sourcing initiatives addressing environmental concerns, and consumer education programs highlighting culinary versatility in a category where production methods, nutritional benefits, and origin stories increasingly influence consumer purchasing decisions and willingness to pay premium prices.
Cooking Oils Refining & Production Industry Description
Cooking Oils Refining & Production focuses on transforming crude vegetable oils into refined cooking and salad oils for consumer and commercial food applications. Companies in this industry employ refining processes including degumming, neutralizing, bleaching, and deodorizing to remove impurities and create oils with specific flavor profiles, stability, and performance characteristics. Manufacturing operations may include blending different oil types, adding antioxidants, and packaging in bottles, jugs, or bulk containers for various market segments. These businesses provide essential cooking ingredients to retail consumers, restaurants, food service operations, and food manufacturers, offering products ranging from everyday cooking oils to specialty products like infused oils, organic options, and high-performance frying oils.
NAICS Code: 311225
Number of Companies: 83
Number of Plants / Facilities: 104
Total Employees: 7,937
Market Size: $13 billion
TARIFF IMPACT (Summer 2025 – Download Report for Updated Analysis)
This report has in-depth analysis on the recent US tariff changes on material costs, quantifying import dependencies, tariff exposure rates, and key source countries for the cooking oils refining & production sector.
Estimated Tariff Cost: $600 million
Relative Tariff Impact: VERY HIGH
Cooking Oils Refining & Production Report Format
The 2026 U.S. Cooking Oils Refining & Production Market Report is 63 pages of deep insights into the trends, dynamics, and forecasts shaping the industry. This market report is utilized by professionals to gain a in-depth understanding of the sector for business strategy, planning, forecasting, benchmarking, industry analysis, valuations, identifying organizational inefficiencies, financial analysis, and more.
With more than one hundred industry analyses and data sets covering trends from 2017 to 2025 and forecasts for 2026 and 2030, this report is one of the comprehensive assessments of the industry. The report includes sales & expense trends, in-depth OPEX analysis on 26 categories, dozens of financial metrics, forecasts, inventory trends & analysis, composition of balance sheets, company segmentation analysis, industry concentration analysis, material costs benchmarks, profitability metrics, state metrics analysis, plant productivity benchmarks, employee role analysis, inflation statistics, compensation analysis, employee productivity benchmarks, and much more.
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Report Table of Contents
Evaluate the table of contents to understand the extensive statistical data sets in this report and why thousands of executives, consultants, bankers, accountants, and other professionals trust Kentley Insights for their market research needs.
The data source for the report is extensive annual expense, revenue, wage, operational, and economic surveys administered by federal and private institutions and filled out by a majority of companies in the cooking oils refining & production industry. Our forecasts take into account historical trends, industry dynamics, and our macroeconomic projections.
1-2 – Market Report Overview & Contents
3 – Market Overview
– Data Sources & Methodology
– Sector Definition & Examples
– Market Commentary
4 – Report Synopsis – Revenue & Growth
5 – Report Synopsis – Costs & Profitability
SECTION ONE
REVENUE & GROWTH
7 – Market Size Details
– Industry Revenues, Companies, & Facilities
– Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
8 – Growth Benchmarks
– Sales per Company and Plant
– Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
9 – Product Lines Revenue
10 – BCG Matrix – Income vs. Revenue Growth
11 – Total Industry Sales by Month & Year (2021-2025)
12 – Inventory Value by Month & Year (2021-2025)
13 – Months of Inventory (2021-2025)
14 – Sector Revenue by Segments
– Business Concentration, Size, & Structure
15 – Market Size by State
– Market Size and Rankings
16 – Market Size as a % of State GDP
17 – Sales as a % of State Manufacturing
18 – Market Segmentation by Business Size
19 – Market Segmentation by Business Size
– Business Size Segments – 1-4, 5-9, 10-20, 21-50, 51-100, 101-250, & 250+ employees
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
20 – Segmentation by Concentration (Top 50 Companies)
– Concentration Segments – Top 4, 5-8, 9-20, & 21-50 companies
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
21 – Market Share of Top 50 Companies
22 – Subsector Market Share of Top 50 Companies
23 – Segmentation by Business Structure
– Business Structure Segments – C-Corporations, S-Corporations, Partnerships, & Sole Proprietorships
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
24 – Revenue per Company by State
25 – Revenue per Company by Segments
26 – Revenue per Facility by State
27 – Revenue per Facility by Segment
28 – Subsector Market Size & Growth
29 – Subsector Sales per Company & Plant
30 – 5-Year Consolidation Analysis
31 – Employment Consolidation Analysis
32 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Number of Companies & Facilities
33 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Facilities & Employees per Company
COST, CAPITAL & FINANCIALS
35 – Profitability & Financial Ratio Analysis
Page 36 – Balance Sheet Metrics
– Assets and Liabilities indexed to industry revenue at 100
– 16 Current & Non-Current Assets Categories
– 15 Short-term, Long-term Liabilities, & Net Worth
37 – OPEX
– Industry OPEX Analysis
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
38 – OPEX by Company & Plant
– OPEX per Company & Plant
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
Page 39 – OPEX Detail
– 6 Employee Expense Categories
– 8 Cost of Material Categories
– 6 Buildings and Equipment Categories
– 8 Other Operating Expense Categories
-Inventory Breakdown: finished goods, work-in-progress, materials and supplies
40 – Production Material Costs & Tariff Analysis
– Top Production Material Costs Breakdown
– Industry & Material Tariff Analysis – % of costs, import %, tariff costs, source countries
41 – Producer Pricing Index
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
– Monthly PPI Figures for the Past 4 Years
42 – Plant Utilization & Hours
– Plant Utilization Rate
– Plant Operational Hours per Week
– 2022-2025 Historical Figures by Quarter
43 – Reasons for Non-Full Production
– 7 Categories Quarterly Survey Results for Past 2 Years
44 – Productivity & Employment
– Revenue per Employee
– Total Number of Employees
– Employees per Company
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
45 – Employee Productivity by Segments
46 – Employee Productivity by State
47 –Subsector Sales & Payroll per Employee
48 – Payroll
– Payroll per Employee, Company, & Plant
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
49 – Payroll per Company by Segments
50 – Payroll per Plant by Segments
51 – Payroll per Employee by Segments
52 – Payroll per Employee by State
53 – Employee Composition
– % of Employees for 27 Job Categories
54 – Job Categorization Pay Ranges
– Pay Bands – Bottom 10% & 25%, Mean, Top 25% & 10%
55 – Top 20 Jobs Breakdown
56 – Top 20 Jobs Pay
– Pay Bands
57 – Employees per Company by Segments
58 – Employees per Plant by Segments
59 – Facilities per Company by Segments
60 – Total Employment by State
61 – Population to Every Employee by State
62 – Employees per Facility by State
63 – Overview of Kentley Insights
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Product Lines, Materials, and Jobs Covered in Report
PRODUCT LINES
Shortening and cooking oils
Margarine, butter blends, and butter substitutes
Fats and oils refining and blending, nsk, total
MATERIAL COST CATEGORIES
Fats and oils, all types
Materials, ingredients, containers, and supplies, nsk
Cost of all other materials and components, parts, containers, and supplies consumed
Oilseeds, excluding soybeans
Plastics containers (including bottles, jars, tubes, tubs, etc.)
INDUSTRY JOBS ANALYZED
Miscellaneous Food Processing Workers
Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
Laborers and Material Movers, Hand
Crushing, Grinding, Polishing, Mixing, and Blending Workers
Industrial Machinery Installation, Repair, and Maintenance Workers
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
Miscellaneous Production Workers
Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
Chemical Processing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Conveyor Operators and Tenders
Agricultural and Food Scientists
Industrial Production Managers
General and Operations Managers
Shipping, Receiving, and Traffic Clerks
Agricultural and Food Science Technicians
Office Clerks, General
Industrial Engineers, Including Health and Safety
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing
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