The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For forging, pressing, stamping and roll-forming of metal; powder metallurgy, that activity is 25910.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
25910 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for forging, pressing, stamping and roll-forming of metal; powder metallurgy: a sub-class of class 2591, forging, pressing, stamping and roll-forming of metal; powder metallurgy, within division 25, manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 25Group 259Class 2591Sub-class 25910
Forging, pressing, stamping and roll-forming of metal; powder metallurgy
Sub-class 25910 · Class 2591 · Group 259 · Division 25 · Section C, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
259105 digits: 25 + 9 + 1 + 0NIC 2025 · Notice dated 16 October 2026
On 18 November 2025 the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released NIC 2025, which uses 6-digit codes aligned with the UN's ISIC Revision 5. This page shows the NIC 2008 code 25910. The matching NIC 2025 code will be added here once it is mapped from MoSPI's official concordance.
How to read it
An NIC code is built in layers. Each digit narrows the one before it: the division, the group, the class, and finally the 5-digit sub-class. Divisions themselves are grouped under lettered sections.
The broadest numbered layer. Division 25 covers manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment. It sits in section C, manufacturing.
Manufacture of other fabricated metal products; metalworking service activities.
Forging, pressing, stamping and roll-forming of metal; powder metallurgy. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Forging, pressing, stamping and roll-forming of metal; powder metallurgy. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
25910 is a sub-class of class 2591, forging, pressing, stamping and roll-forming of metal; powder metallurgy. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes, forging, pressing, stamping and roll forming of metal, production of metal objects directly from metal powders by heat treatment (sintering) or under pressure
This class excludes:
- - production of metal powder, see 2410, 2420
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 25910 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For forging, pressing, stamping and roll-forming of metal; powder metallurgy, that activity is 25910.
The company incorporation form asks for the main industrial activity of the proposed company by NIC code.
Not GST. GST registration does not use NIC codes; goods and services there are classified by HSN and SAC codes.
Choosing the right code
25910 is for forging, pressing, stamping and roll-forming of metal; powder metallurgy. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: other classes in group 259. Each has its own page with the official wording.
These belong to other classes in group 259, manufacture of other fabricated metal products; metalworking service activities. 25910 itself is in class 2591. Use the search above for any other code on this page.
Questions
Forging, pressing, stamping and roll-forming of metal; powder metallurgy, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 2591, forging, pressing, stamping and roll-forming of metal; powder metallurgy.
In Udyam Registration, which asks for the business activity by NIC code, and in the SPICe+ company incorporation form, which asks for the main industrial activity by NIC code. GST registration does not use NIC codes.
About this page
The section, division, group, class and sub-class on this page, and the explanatory note for class 2591, are taken word for word from the official document “National Industrial Classification (All Economic Activities) 2008”, Central Statistical Organisation, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India.
This is reference information on the classification of a business activity. It is not advice on which code your own business should declare, and the official NIC document prevails if the two ever differ. A change in the classification, including the MoSPI concordance to NIC 2025, re-opens this page for checking.
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