The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of corrugated paper board containers, that activity is 17022.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
17022 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for manufacture of corrugated paper board containers: a sub-class of class 1702, manufacture of corrugated paper and paperboard and containers of paper and paperboard, within division 17, manufacture of paper and paper products. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 17Group 170Class 1702Sub-class 17022
Manufacture of corrugated paper board containers
Sub-class 17022 · Class 1702 · Group 170 · Division 17 · 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.
170225 digits: 17 + 0 + 2 + 2NIC 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 17022. 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 17 covers manufacture of paper and paper products. It sits in section C, manufacturing.
Manufacture of paper and paper products.
Manufacture of corrugated paper and paperboard and containers of paper and paperboard. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Manufacture of corrugated paper board containers. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
17022 is a sub-class of class 1702, manufacture of corrugated paper and paperboard and containers of paper and paperboard. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - manufacture of envelopes, see 1709
- - manufacture of moulded or pressed articles of paper pulp (e.g. boxes for packing eggs, moulded pulp paper plates), see 1709
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 17022 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of corrugated paper board containers, that activity is 17022.
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
17022 is for manufacture of corrugated paper board containers. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 1702. Each has its own page with the official wording.
17023Class 1702 · another sub-class of the same class17024Class 1702 · another sub-class of the same class17029Class 1702 · another sub-class of the same class17021Class 1702 · another sub-class of the same classClass 1702 has 5 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 17022.
Questions
Manufacture of corrugated paper board containers, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 1702, manufacture of corrugated paper and paperboard and containers of paper and paperboard.
Class 1702, manufacture of corrugated paper and paperboard and containers of paper and paperboard, has 5 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 17022, they are: 17023 (Manufacture of card board boxes); 17024 (Manufacture of sacks and bags of paper); 17029 (Manufacture of other containers of paper and paperboard n.e.c.); 17021 (Manufacture of corrugated paper and paperboard).
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 1702, 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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