Division 24 - MANUFACTURE OF BASIC METALS 'This division includes the activities of smelting and/or refining ferrous and non- ferrous metals from ore, pig or scrap, using electrometallurgic and other process metallurgic techniques. This division also includes the manufacture of metal alloys and super-alloys by introducing other chemical elements to pure metals. The output of smelting and refining, usually in ingot form, is used in rolling, drawing and extruding operations to make products, such as plate, sheet, strip, bars, rods, wire, tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, and in molten form to make castings and other basic metal products.

Division 24 sits in the PSIC 2019 hierarchy under C Manufacturing. This division collects tightly related groups, with child examples such as Manufacture of basic iron and steel, Manufacture of basic precious and other non-ferrous metals, and Casting of metals. It is the main bridge between a broad sector label and the more precise groups below it.

This division is used when the first pass is too broad and the work needs to be split into groups such as Manufacture of basic iron and steel, Manufacture of basic precious and other non-ferrous metals, and Casting of metals. It helps with registration wording, sector analytics and review of near-miss options.

Use this division as the first narrowing step. Compare child groups such as Manufacture of basic iron and steel, Manufacture of basic precious and other non-ferrous metals, and Casting of metals and move to the group that best matches the real activity, not the marketing description.