This group includes: - manufacture of protective safety equipment such as: + manufacture of fire-resistant and protective safety clothing; + manufacture of linemen’s safety belts and other belts for occupational use + manufacture of cork life preservers; + manufacture of plastics hard hats and other personal safety equipment of plastics (e.g. athletic helmets); + manufacture of fire-fighting protection suits; + manufacture of metal safety headgear and other metal personal safety devices, + manufacture of ear and noise plugs (e.g. for swimming and noise protection), + manufacture of gas masks; - manufacture of brooms and brushes, including brushes constituting parts of machines, hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, mops and feather dusters, paint brushes, paint pads and rollers, squeegees and other brushes, brooms, mops etc. - manufacture of shoe and clothes brushes; - manufacture of pens and pencils of all kinds whether or not mechanical; - manufacture of pencil leads; - manufacture of date, sealing or numbering stamps, hand-operated devices for printing, or embossing labels, hand printing sets, prepared typewriter ribbons and inked pads; - manufacture of globes; - manufacture of umbrellas, sun-umbrellas, walking sticks, seat-sticks; - manufacture of buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners, press-studs, slide fasteners; - manufacture of cigarette lighters; - manufacture of articles of personal use: smoking pipes, scent sprays, vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels for personal or household use, wigs, false beards, eyebrows; - manufacture of miscellaneous articles: candles, tapers and the like; bouquets, wreaths and floral baskets; artificial flowers, fruit and foliage; jokes and novelties; hand sieves and hand riddles; tailors’ dummies etc. - taxidermy activities; - stamp making.
This group excludes: - manufacture of lighter wicks, see 13990 (Manufacture of other textiles not elsewhere classified); - manufacture of workwear and service apparel (e.g. laboratory coats, work overalls, uniforms), see 14100 (Manufacture of wearing apparel, except fur apparel); - manufacture of paper novelties, see 17090 (Manufacture of other articles of paper and paperboard not elsewhere classified).