Solid Wood Products 2593 

 Table 22-1 1 — Value of J 977 shipments of the furniture industry, by sector 



Sector and sub-sector (with Standard 



Industrial classification numbers Value of 



used in Census of Manufacturers) shipments 



Million dollars 



25 1 Household furniture 



25 1 1 Wood household furniture 4, 140.3 



2512 Upholstered household furniture 2,931 .0 



25 14 Metal household furniture 1 ,307. 1 



2515 Mattresses and bedsprings 1,398.5 



2517 Radio and TV cabinets 304.8 



2519 Household furniture not elsewhere classified 301 .9 



Sub-total 10,383.6 



252 Office furniture 



2521 Wood office furniture 612.0 



2522 Metal office furniture 1 ,397.4 



Sub-total 2.009.4 



253 Public building furniture 787.4 



254 Partitions and fixtures 



2541 Wood partitions and fixtures 1.105.8 



2542 Metal partitions and fixtures 1 ,303.0 



Sub-total 2,408.8 



259 Miscellaneous furniture and fixtures 



2591 Draperies, blinds, and shades 675. 1 



2599 Furniture and fixtures not elsewhere classified 705.2 



Sub-total 1 ,380.3 



Grand total for SIC number 25 (Furniture and fixtures) 16,969.5 



KITCHEN CABINETS 



Kitchen cabinets represent an important segment of the furniture and fixture 

 market. Lindell and KHppel (1972) estimated that in 1969 sales of kitchen 

 cabinets totalled $1.4 billion and involved some 3.9 million kitchens, of which 

 only 1.5 million were in new houses. About 71 percent of these cabinets were 

 wood and built in factories, and another 16 percent were factory built of plastic 

 or steel. Mobile-home manufacturers produced about 10 percent; only 3 percent 

 were built on site. Most kitchen cabinet manufacturing plants serve a local 

 market; of the larger firms that market regionally or nationally, many are located 

 in states adjoining the Great Lakes (fig. 22-13). 



Use of plastics, hardboard, and particleboard have steadily increased. Plastics 

 in 1963 accounted for less than 1.7 percent of total expenditures for materials, 

 but in 1970 for 6.6 percent (fig. 22-14). The use of particleboard core stock for 

 plastic overlays increased from 0.6 percent in 1963 to 4.5 percent in 1970, while 

 hardboard purchases increased from 2.2 percent to 3.7 percent. During this 



