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Top 25 Manufacturing trade associations based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 122 manufacturing trade associations headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 3,769 professional contacts across them, including 685 with verified work emails. Chicago is the largest hub.
This list covers manufacturing trade associations headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 17, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest manufacturing trade associations based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,118 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1932 as a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of manufacturing, SME (the Society of Manufacturing Engineers) leads the industrial ecosystem by…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 287 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The mission of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) is to be the voice for all manufacturing in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology represents and promotes U.S-based builders and distributors of manufacturing technology - the high-tech machinery, devices, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AEM is an association that provides services on a global basis for companies that manufacture equipment, products and services used worldwide in the following industries…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Manufacturers Alliance powers leaders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Advanced Machine & Engineering® (AME) was founded in 1966 out of Rockford, Illinois by Willy Goellner.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The NTMA is a membership organization with the collective power of 1,200 thriving tool & die and precision manufacturing companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “TECHNOLOGY & MANUFACTURING ASSOCIATION 1651 Wilkening Road | Schaumburg, IL 60173 +1 847-849-5334 TMA was founded in 1925 by 8 small manufacturing companies who thought they could…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Michigan Manufacturers Association is the state’s leading advocate exclusively devoted to promoting & maintaining a business climate favorable to industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We've been at it since 1990, have 400+ members and a community of individuals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MORE THAN 100 YEARS STRONG, MSCI IS THE BROADEST-BASED NOT-FOR-PROFIT ASSOCIATION SERVING THE INDUSTRIAL METALS INDUSTRY The Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI) is a North…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Machinery Dealers National Association (MDNA) is an international, nonprofit trade association dedicated to the promotion of the used machinery industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The PMPA is an international trade association representing the interests of the precision machined products industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Manufacturers' Association is on a mission to ensure that our region’s manufacturing can compete at a global scale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “IAMC is the premiere manufacturing and industrial real estate trade association for professionals in the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1922, the Virginia Manufacturers Association (VMA) has served as Industry’s Advocate™.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1980 by Manufacturers for Manufacturers VMA offers information, education and networking opportunities to help local manufacturers grow and succeed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We're the only trade association in the state dedicated exclusively to the competitive, legislative, regulatory and operational interests and needs of manufacturers and their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The California Manufacturers & Technology Association works to improve and enhance a strong business climate for California's manufacturing, processing and technology-based…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The FuzeHub team are dedicated, experienced manufacturing, technical and business professionals who are knowledgeable gateways to New York’s vast technology, research, engineering…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Grow with us!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ARMA is a nonprofit trade association dedicated to strengthening the manufacturing community through advocacy, workforce development, and networking.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The purpose of TMHA is to serve its membership while simultaneously promoting the general welfare and interest of the manufactured housing industry throughout the state of Texas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1948, NAFEM has been the leading voice of the commercial foodservice equipment and supplies industry, representing 500-plus manufacturers whose products power professional…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: manufacturing trade associations. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names manufacturing trade associations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of manufacturing trade associations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name manufacturing trade associations. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Manufacturing trade associations based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 17, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 122 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among manufacturing trade associations, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “manufacturing trade associations”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names manufacturing trade associations), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among manufacturing trade associations, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 685 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 17, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names manufacturing trade associations, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many manufacturing trade associations are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 122 manufacturing trade associations headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
SME, headquartered in Southfield, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most manufacturing trade associations?
Chicago leads with 5 headquartered companies, followed by Atlanta (4) and Washington (4).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 685 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 122 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 17, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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