Publish Date: August 2026
Updated Tariff & Recession Risk Analysis and Forecasts
The Metal Building Structure Manufacturing Market Report covers the $66.7 billion industry which produces primary structural elements for construction applications including framing systems, building packages, and major structural components. Competitive structure features large building system manufacturers alongside specialized fabricators addressing particular structural applications. Market requirements increasingly emphasize structural efficiency, installation productivity, design flexibility, and increasingly sustainable attributes influencing specification decisions. Manufacturers face challenges balancing fabrication technology requirements, material engineering, engineering expertise, and tariff considerations affecting both steel inputs and international market access. Industry leaders differentiate through advanced engineering optimizing structural efficiency, sophisticated fabrication technologies improving precision and quality, innovative connection systems enhancing installation productivity, and increasingly Building Information Modeling integration supporting construction coordination in a sector where both engineering capabilities and fabrication efficiency determine competitive positioning across diverse metal building structure applications.
Metal Building Structure Manufacturing Industry Definition
Metal Building Structure Manufacturing produces engineered structural framing systems including complete pre-engineered buildings, trusses, joists, girders, and decking for commercial, industrial, and institutional construction. Companies design, fabricate, and package structural steel and metal building components engineered for specific loading conditions and dimensions. These businesses serve construction markets with efficient structural solutions that provide strength, rapid installation, and design flexibility. The industry combines structural engineering with efficient manufacturing processes to create building systems that optimize material usage while providing reliable structural performance, continuously improving connection systems, corrosion protection, fire resistance, and integration with other building systems.
NAICS Code: 33231
Number of Companies: 4,905
Number of Plants / Facilities: 5,521
Industry Employees: 174,222
Market Size: $66.7 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 metal building structure manufacturing sector.
Estimated Tariff Cost: $2.7 billion
Relative Tariff Impact: VERY HIGH
Metal Building Structure Manufacturing Report Format
The 2026 U.S. Metal Building Structure Manufacturing Market Report is 63 pages of deep insights into the trends, dynamics, and forecasts shaping the industry. You can use this market report to develop a comprehensive fact base on the industry for business strategy, planning, forecasting, benchmarking, industry analysis, valuations, identifying organizational inefficiencies, financial analysis, and more.
This report covers more than 100 statistical data sets with historical trend data from 2017 to 2025, and 2026 and 2030 forecasts. The report includes market size & growth, 26 expense categories, dozens of financial metrics, forecasts on 100+ data sets, inventory statistics, 31 balance sheet benchmarks, company segmentation analysis, competitive intensity analysis, production material costs, profit margin analysis, state metrics analysis, plant utilization, organizational breakdown, inflation statistics, employee pay analysis, employee productivity benchmarks, and much more.
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Report Table of Contents
Explore the below 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.
For this report, the core data is sourced from comprehensive business, operational, and economic surveys conducted by government and private institutions and filled out by a statistically significant number of companies in the metal building structure manufacturing 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
Fabricated structural metal manufacturing
Plate work manufacturing
Prefabricated metal building and component manufacturing
MATERIAL COST CATEGORIES
Materials, ingredients, containers, and supplies, nsk
Steel structural shapes and sheet piling (excluding castings, forgings, and fabricated metal products)
Steel sheet, steel strip, and tin mill products
Steel bars (including concrete reinforcing bars), bar shapes, and plate (excluding castings, forgings, and fabricated)
Cost of all other materials and components, parts, containers, and supplies consumed
Misc. fabricated metal products (excluding hardware, containers, screw machine, bearing components, castings, forgings, and wire)
Misc. iron, steel, and ferroalloy ingot, shapes, and forms (excluding castings, forgings, bars, structural, wire, sheet, strip)
Metal bolts, nuts, screws, washers, rivets, and other screw machine products
Aluminum and aluminum-base alloy sheet, plate, foil (including packaging products), and welded tubing
Metal valves, pipe fittings, and related assemblies (excluding fluid power and forgings)
Paints, varnishes, stains, lacquers, shellacs, japans, enamels, and allied products
Iron and steel castings
Nonferrous metal shapes, forms, sheet, strip, powder, and wire (excluding castings / forgings), excluding aluminum and copper
Metal forgings
INDUSTRY JOBS ANALYZED
Metal Workers and Plastic Workers
Assemblers and Fabricators
Other Production Occupations
Construction Trades Workers
Supervisors of Production Workers
Material Moving Workers
Business Operations Specialists
Material Recording, Scheduling, Dispatching, and Distributing Workers
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing
Top Executives
Other Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations
Drafters, Engineering Technicians, and Mapping Technicians
Other Office and Administrative Support Workers
Engineers
Operations Specialties Managers
Information and Record Clerks
Financial Clerks
Motor Vehicle Operators
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
Financial Specialists
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