Manufacture of other paper and paperboard containers (SIC code 17219)
Manufacture of other paper and paperboard containers is UK SIC code 17219. It sits in division 17 (Manufacture of paper and paper products) of the SIC 2007 list. On the August 2026 Companies House register, 542 active UK companies list 17219 among their SIC codes. 479 of them list it first. That makes it the second most used code in its division.
542active UK companies list SIC 17219 among their codes on the public recordCompanies House · counts as of August 2026
SIC 17219 in numbers
542 companies is 0.01 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register. 17219 is the second most used of the 4 codes we track in division 17.
479 of the 542 put 17219 first, and only 63 carry it as a second, third or fourth code. The code on its own is a clean filter.
ACTIVE COMPANIES BY REGISTERED-OFFICE POST TOWN (WHERE THE PAPERWORK SITS, NOT NECESSARILY THE WORK) · COMPANIES HOUSE PUBLIC RECORD, AUGUST 2026
London is the largest cluster at 15 per cent and the top five post towns hold 24 per cent, so the other 76 per cent sit across the rest of the country. A regional filter narrows the list without gutting it.
A worked example: 17219, registered office in London, incorporated in the last ninety days, from a pool of 542. Each lead you get arrives with a working website and a real email, and the director's name when the record has one. If we cannot complete one, you pay nothing.
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Converting rather than milling. The codes with real numbers here are paper stationery, 17230, paperboard containers, 17219, household and sanitary paper goods, 17220, and the catch-all 17290.
Related SIC codes
How to read SIC 17219
SIC 17219 reads as division 17 (manufacture of paper and paper products), group 172, class 1721, then the full five digits, inside section C, manufacturing. A company picks its own codes, up to four, and Companies House does not check them, so 17219 is the company's own description of what it does, and 479 list it first where 542 list it anywhere.
Who sells into division 17
Print finishers, packaging designers, machinery and die suppliers all sell into this division. So do the brands looking for UK packaging production, which has become a more active search since supply chains shortened.
About SIC 17219
How many UK companies use SIC code 17219?
542 active UK companies list 17219 (Manufacture of other paper and paperboard containers) among their registered SIC codes. Each company may register up to four. Of those, 479 put it first. The figures come from the August 2026 Companies House register snapshot, and count active companies only.
Should a packaging company use 17219 or a printing code?
If you make the box, 17219 manufacture of paper and paperboard containers is right. If you print onto material someone else made, a division 18 printing code fits better. Many companies genuinely do both and list both. Nobody at Companies House will assess it, so pick the one carrying most of your turnover first.
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