Publish Date: September 2026
Updated Tariff & Recession Risk Analysis and Forecasts
The 2026 Nut Processing & Peanut Butter Making Market Report covers the $15.3 billion industry which operates with a segmented competitive structure featuring large-scale producers of mainstream products alongside specialized manufacturers focused on premium varieties, artisanal production methods, and innovative formulations. Consumer preferences have evolved significantly toward minimally processed options, expanded nut variety beyond traditional peanuts, clean-label formulations, and value-added formats addressing specific usage occasions. Processors face significant operational challenges balancing food safety requirements, allergen management, oil separation issues, and tariff implications affecting both raw nut imports and specialized equipment sourcing. Successful companies are differentiating through proprietary roasting techniques developing distinctive flavor profiles, specialized capabilities for emerging nut varieties, innovative packaging enhancing freshness and convenience, and transparent sourcing initiatives highlighting origin stories in a category where perceived freshness, ingredient purity, and increasingly sustainability credentials significantly influence consumer purchasing decisions across diverse nut-based products.
Nut Processing & Peanut Butter Making Industry Description
Nut Processing & Peanut Butter Making transforms raw nuts and peanuts into roasted, flavored, and ground nut products for retail and food manufacturing markets. Companies in this industry operate facilities with equipment for cleaning, sorting, roasting, blanching, grinding, flavoring, and packaging various tree nuts and peanuts into consumer-ready forms. Manufacturing processes include dry or oil roasting, salt or flavor application, grinding and emulsification (for nut butters), and packaging in containers designed to maintain freshness and prevent oil separation. These businesses produce snack nuts, baking ingredients, nut butters, and nut toppings serving both direct consumer markets and food manufacturing customers who use these products as ingredients in confections, baked goods, cereals, and other food products, with operations spanning from basic processing to creation of specialized products like flavored nut mixes, organic nut butters, and allergen-controlled processing for specific market segments.
NAICS Code: 311911
Number of Companies: 216
Number of Plants / Facilities: 246
Total Employees: 19,202
Market Size: $15.3 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 nut processing & peanut butter making sector.
Estimated Tariff Cost: $800 million
Relative Tariff Impact: VERY HIGH
Nut Processing & Peanut Butter Making Report Format
The 2026 U.S. Nut Processing & Peanut Butter Making Market Report is 63 pages of deep insights into the trends, dynamics, and forecasts shaping the industry. Professionals leverage this market report to develop a deep understanding of the market for business strategy, planning, forecasting, benchmarking, industry analysis, valuations, identifying organizational inefficiencies, financial analysis, and more.
The report has over 100 industry statistical data sets with historicals (2017-2025), trend analysis, and forecasts for 2026 and the next 5 years. The report includes revenue & cost trends, in-depth OPEX analysis on 26 categories, financial ratio benchmarks, extensive forecasts, inventory statistics, 31 balance sheet benchmarks, company segmentation analysis, top 50 companies analysis, material costs benchmarks, profitability analysis, state metrics analysis, plant capacity analysis, workforce composition, inflation statistics, compensation analysis, revenue per employee trends, and more.
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Report Table of Contents
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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 nut processing & peanut butter making industry. The forecasts in the report are modeled by our research analysts using the latest economic forecasts, industry analysis, and historical trends.
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
Nuts and seeds (salted, roasted, cooked, or blanched)
Peanut butter
Roasted nuts and peanut butter manufacturing, nsk, total
MATERIAL COST CATEGORIES
Cost of all other materials and components, parts, containers, and supplies consumed
Nuts and nutmeats, including peanuts
Materials, ingredients, containers, and supplies, nsk
Oilseeds, excluding soybeans
Plastics products (including packaging, foam products, film, sheet, rod, tube, fabricated shapes, bottles, etc.)
Paper and paperboard products
Plastics containers (including bottles, jars, tubes, tubs, etc.)
Aluminum and aluminum-base alloy sheet, plate, foil (including packaging products), and welded tubing
INDUSTRY JOBS ANALYZED
Miscellaneous Food Processing Workers
Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
Laborers and Material Movers, Hand
Miscellaneous Production Workers
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators
Driver/Sales Workers and Truck Drivers
Food Preparation Workers
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Crushing, Grinding, Polishing, Mixing, and Blending Workers
Industrial Machinery Installation, Repair, and Maintenance Workers
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators
Shipping, Receiving, and Traffic Clerks
General and Operations Managers
Building Cleaning Workers
Office Clerks, General
Stock Clerks and Order Fillers
Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
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