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Buyer Map: Plasmatreat North America

Prepared for Hardev Grewal | Plasmatreat North America | October 2026

As of Oct 9, 2026. Counts from published federal statistics on US businesses for 2022, described in the notes at the foot

This page maps the US manufacturers in the industries and materials your own site names, from medical devices and electronics to aerospace, automotive parts, plastics, packaging, appliances and textiles. It counts them by size across the United States, then counts their plants in California and Illinois, where your two US labs sit. It says nothing about which of them Plasmatreat already works with.

US manufacturers in these nine industries with 20 or more staff

11,000

Companies, 2022. The nine rows in the first table added together, so a company with plants in two of these industries counts in both.

US medical device and supply makers with 20 or more staff

1,400

Companies, 2022. One of the four markets your Hayward R&D team focuses on.

Semiconductor and electronic component plants in California

930

Plants of every size, 2022. A plant is one location.

Manufacturing plants in California and Illinois with 100 or more staff

3,500

Every kind of manufacturing, 2022.

United States, manufacturers by industry and size

Companies with paid staff, sized by everyone the whole company employs, 2022.

Each row is its own industry. A company is counted once in each industry where it runs a plant, sized by the whole company, so a medical device maker with a separate molding plant appears in both the medical and the plastics rows. A size class the federal file does not publish is counted as none, so a cell can read low but never high. Industry names are our plain labels for the federal codes in the notes.
Industry	20 to 99 staff	100 to 499 staff	500+ staff	All with 20+
Medical device and supply makers	870	300	200	1,400
Semiconductor and electronic component makers	820	330	190	1,300
Aerospace product and parts makers	330	150	110	590
Motor vehicle parts makers	790	500	350	1,600
Battery, wiring and other electrical component makers	420	170	160	750
Plastics product makers	2,000	940	510	3,400
Paperboard, paper packaging and label converters	690	320	170	1,200
Household appliance makers	about 40	about 20	about 30	about 90
Textile mills	340	150	about 80	570

California and Illinois, plants by industry

Locations in each state, 2022. Your flagship lab is in Hayward, and your Elgin lab serves the Midwest.

Staff here is the people at the one location, not the whole company. Where the federal file leaves a size class blank, which it does for any class with fewer than three locations, that class is counted as none, so a 100+ cell can read low but never high. Where it blanks every class of 100 or more, the cell says not published.
Industry	California plants	California plants with 100+ staff	Illinois plants	Illinois plants with 100+ staff
Medical device and supply makers	1,400	about 90	370	about 20
Semiconductor and electronic component makers	930	130	190	about 20
Aerospace product and parts makers	330	about 80	about 20	not published
Motor vehicle parts makers	470	about 30	200	about 60
Battery, wiring and other electrical component makers	340	about 40	110	about 10
Plastics product makers	990	130	550	100
Paperboard, paper packaging and label converters	320	about 80	210	about 50
Household appliance makers	about 60	not published	about 20	not published
Textile mills	220	about 10	about 30	not published

Who signs off

The roles that usually bring in a surface treatment process or a plasma system. At a smaller plant one person often holds several of them.

Role	Why they care
Manufacturing or process engineer	Owns the line where a bond, a paint coat or a print fails, and has to fix it without slowing the line.
Materials, adhesion or R&D engineer	Chooses how new material combinations get joined, and runs the trials before anything reaches production.
Quality manager	Lives with the delamination, the peel test failures and the returns, and wants a process that can be monitored.
Plant manager or VP of operations	Weighs a new inline step against throughput, floor space and the chemicals it could remove.
Environmental, health and safety lead	Cares when a solvent or primer step can come out of the process.
Procurement or capital equipment buyer	Runs the vendor review and the purchase once the engineers agree.

What no public count reaches

Three questions this page cannot answer from a count, said in words rather than shown as numbers.

Who bonds, paints or prints on difficult surfaces. The federal counts sort plants by what they make, not by the steps on their line, so every row counts each maker whether or not it has an adhesion problem today.

Who already treats surfaces with plasma, flame, corona or primer. No public list says which plants run which pretreatment, so that comes from the conversation, not from this page.

When a new product or a new line is planned. New product launches and line changes are set inside each company and are rarely published early.

Three openings

Where the counts point.

Medical device makers.

About 1,400 US medical device and supply makers have 20 or more staff. Medical devices are one of the four markets your Hayward R&D team focuses on, and your site has its own page on syringe manufacturing.

Electronics and aerospace plants in California.

California has about 930 semiconductor and electronic component plants and about 330 aerospace product and parts plants. Electronics and aerospace are two more of the four markets your Hayward R&D team focuses on.

Smaller plastics processors.

About 2,000 US plastics product makers have 20 to 99 staff, the most of any industry in the first table. Your site says Plasma as a Service suits small to mid-size production volumes that do not need inline processing.

Denominators, definitions and sources

United States counts are employer firms in the federal annual statistics of US businesses, 2022. A firm is every location under one owner, sized by paid employees across the whole firm, and counted in each industry where it has a location.
California and Illinois counts are establishments in the federal County Business Patterns for 2022, state file. An establishment is one location, sized by the paid employees at that location in the mid-March 2022 pay period. Size classes the file leaves blank are counted as none.
Industry codes: 3391 medical equipment and supplies manufacturing, which includes dental laboratories (about 350 of the 1,400 US companies with 20 or more staff, and about half of the California and Illinois plants); 3344 semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing; 3364 aerospace product and parts manufacturing; 3363 motor vehicle parts manufacturing; 3359 other electrical equipment and component manufacturing, batteries included; 3261 plastics product manufacturing; 3222 converted paper product manufacturing; 3352 household appliance manufacturing; 313 textile mills. The fourth tile counts sector 31 to 33, all manufacturing.
Organizations with no paid staff are not counted. Built from published federal statistics, counts banded deliberately. Figures of 100 and over are rounded to two significant figures, figures from 10 to 99 to the nearest ten, and figures below 10 are shown as under 10.

The named version of this page, the actual companies inside a row, is built one row at a time. If you want to walk through a row together, pick a time at cal.com/ecg. Prepared by Ben Beattie, ben@enquirerconsulting.com.

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