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Detailed structure and explanatory notes

SITC Rev.4 code 731

• Section: 7 - Machinery and transport equipment
• Division: 73 - Metalworking machinery
• Group: 731 - Machine tools working by removing metal or other material

This Group is divided into the following Subgroups:

• 731.1 - Machine tools for working any material by removal of material, by laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electro-discharge, electro-chemical, electron beam, ionic beam or plasma-arc processes
• 731.2 - Machining centres, unit construction machines (single station) and multi-station transfer machines for working metal.
• 731.3 - Lathes for removing metal (other than those of subgroup 731.1, 731.2 or 733.9)
• 731.4 - Way-type unit head machines; other machine tools for drilling or boring
• 731.5 - Machine tools for milling, threading or tapping by removing metal (other than the lathes of subgroup 731.3 or the machine tools of subgroups 731.1, 731.2 or 731.4)
• 731.6 - Machine tools for deburring, sharpening, grinding, honing, lapping, polishing or otherwise finishing metal, sintered metal carbides or cermets by means of grinding stones, abrasives or polishing products (other than gear-cutting, gear-grinding or gear-finishing machines of subgroup 731.7)
• 731.7 - Machine tools for planing, shaping, slotting, broaching, gear-cutting, gear grinding or gear finishing, sawing, cutting off, and other machine tools working by removing metal, sintered metal carbides or cermets, n.e.s.