UK SIC 2007 25400: Manufacture of weapons and ammunition

Maps to NACE Rev. 2 25.40 and NACE Rev. 2.1 25.30. ISIC Rev. 4: 2520.

UK SIC 2007 code 25400 is "Manufacture of weapons and ammunition". UK SIC 2007 follows NACE Rev. 2 at four digits and adds a national fifth digit, so the first four digits, 25.40, are the NACE Rev. 2 class "Manufacture of weapons and ammunition". 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 matching class is 25.30, "Manufacture of weapons and ammunition".

Conversion

Classification	Code	Label
UK SIC 2007	25400	Manufacture of weapons and ammunition
NACE Rev. 2	25.40	Manufacture of weapons and ammunition
NACE Rev. 2.1	25.30	Manufacture of weapons and ammunition
ISIC Rev. 4	2520

What the class includes (NACE Rev. 2 notes)

This class includes: - manufacture of heavy weapons (artillery, mobile guns, rocket launchers, torpedo tubes, heavy machine guns) - manufacture of small arms (revolvers, shotguns, light machine guns) - manufacture of air or gas guns and pistols - manufacture of war ammunition

What it excludes

This class excludes: - manufacture of percussion caps, detonators or signalling flares, see 20.51 - manufacture of cutlasses, swords, bayonets etc., see 25.71 - manufacture of armoured vehicles for the transport of banknotes or valuables, see 29.10 - manufacture of space vehicles, see 30.30 - manufacture of tanks and other fighting vehicles, see 30.40

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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.