The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of ovens, furnaces and furnace burners, that activity is 28150.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
28150 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for manufacture of ovens, furnaces and furnace burners: a sub-class of class 2815, manufacture of ovens, furnaces and furnace burners, within division 28, manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 28Group 281Class 2815Sub-class 28150
Manufacture of ovens, furnaces and furnace burners
Sub-class 28150 · Class 2815 · Group 281 · Division 28 · 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.
281505 digits: 28 + 1 + 5 + 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 28150. 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 28 covers manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c. It sits in section C, manufacturing.
Manufacture of general purpose machinery.
Manufacture of ovens, furnaces and furnace burners. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Manufacture of ovens, furnaces and furnace burners. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
28150 is a sub-class of class 2815, manufacture of ovens, furnaces and furnace burners. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes manufacture of electrical and other industrial and laboratory furnaces and ovens, including incinerators, manufacture of burners, manufacture of permanent mount electric space heaters, electric swimming pool heaters, manufacture of permanent mount non-electric household heating equipment, such as solar heating, steam heating, oil heat and similar furnaces and heating equipment, manufacture of electric household-type furnaces (electric forced air furnaces, heat pumps, etc.), non- electric household forced air furnaces, manufacture of mechanical stokers, grates, ash dischargers etc.
This class excludes:
- - manufacture of household ovens, see 2750
- - manufacture of agricultural dryers, see 2825
- - manufacture of bakery ovens, see 2825
- - manufacture of dryers for wood, paper pulp, paper or paperboard, see 2829
- - manufacture of medical, surgical or laboratory sterilizers, see 3250
- - manufacture of (dental) laboratory furnaces, see 3250
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 28150 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of ovens, furnaces and furnace burners, that activity is 28150.
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
28150 is for manufacture of ovens, furnaces and furnace burners. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: other classes in group 281. Each has its own page with the official wording.
These belong to other classes in group 281, manufacture of general purpose machinery. 28150 itself is in class 2815. Use the search above for any other code on this page.
Questions
Manufacture of ovens, furnaces and furnace burners, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 2815, manufacture of ovens, furnaces and furnace burners.
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 2815, 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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