Manufacture of paper stationery (SIC code 17230)
Manufacture of paper stationery is UK SIC code 17230. It sits in division 17 (Manufacture of paper and paper products) of the SIC 2007 list. On the August 2026 Companies House register, 914 active UK companies list 17230 among their SIC codes. 847 of them list it first. That makes it the most used code in its division.
914active UK companies list SIC 17230 among their codes on the public recordCompanies House · counts as of August 2026
SIC 17230 in numbers
914 companies is 0.02 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register. 17230 is the most used of the 4 codes we track in division 17.
847 of the 914 put 17230 first, and only 67 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 22 per cent, so the other 78 per cent sit across the rest of the country. A regional filter narrows the list without gutting it.
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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.
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How to read SIC 17230
SIC 17230 reads as division 17 (manufacture of paper and paper products), group 172, class 1723, 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 17230 is the company's own description of what it does, and 847 list it first where 914 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 17230
How many UK companies use SIC code 17230?
914 active UK companies list 17230 (Manufacture of paper stationery) among their registered SIC codes. Each company may register up to four. Of those, 847 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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