UK SIC 2007 18129: Printing n.e.c.

Maps to NACE Rev. 2 18.12 and NACE Rev. 2.1 13.30, 18.12. ISIC Rev. 4: 1811.

UK SIC 2007 code 18129 is "Printing n.e.c.". UK SIC 2007 follows NACE Rev. 2 at four digits and adds a national fifth digit, so the first four digits, 18.12, are the NACE Rev. 2 class "Other printing". UK companies state one or more SIC codes when they file at Companies House, and the codes appear in the company record. In NACE Rev. 2.1 the NACE Rev. 2 class behind this code is split across 2 classes, so check the activity before you convert.

Conversion

Classification	Code	Label
UK SIC 2007	18129	Printing n.e.c.
NACE Rev. 2	18.12	Other printing
NACE Rev. 2.1	13.30	Finishing of textiles
NACE Rev. 2.1	18.12	Other printing
ISIC Rev. 4	1811

What the class includes (NACE Rev. 2 notes)

This class includes: - printing of magazines and other periodicals, appearing less than four times a week - printing of books and brochures, music and music manuscripts, maps, atlases, posters, advertising catalogues, prospectuses and other printed advertising, postage stamps, taxation stamps, documents of title, cheques and other security papers, smart cards, albums, diaries, calendars and other commercial printed matter, personal stationery and other printed matter by letterpress, offset, photogravure, flexographic, screen printing and other printing presses, duplication machines, computer printers, embossers etc., including quick printing - printing directly onto textiles, plastic, glass, metal, wood and ceramics The material printed is typically copyrighted.

What it excludes

This class excludes: - manufacture of stationery (notebooks, binders, registers, accounting books, business forms etc.), when the printed information is not the main characteristic, see 17.23 - publishing of printed matter, see 58.1

Other UK SIC codes in the same NACE class

18121 Manufacture of printed labels

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UK SIC 2007: Companies House condensed list of the ONS classification (gov.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0), read 2026-10-05. NACE data: EU Vocabularies (CC BY 4.0). Information only.