This group includes businesses engaged in refining, smelting, alloying, and casting non-ferrous metals in basic forms (ingots, billets, slabs, rods, pellets, blocks, sheets, pigs, alloys, and powders). Examples of products include brass ingots, aluminum ingots, zinc ingots, copper ingots, lead ingots, brass billets, aluminum billets, brass slabs, aluminum slabs, brass rods, aluminum rods, brass pellets, aluminum pellets, bronze alloys, nickel alloys, bearing metals, and rare earth metals and rare earth metal alloys (lanthanide elements plus scandium and yttrium elements).
