UNSPSC 23241700: Metal deburring machines

Machines that remove burrs from workpieces through mechanical means. Burrs are thin ridges that develop along the edges of a workpiece from shearing sheet materials, trimming forgings and castings, and machining.

UNSPSC 23241700 Metal deburring machines is a Class code that encompasses equipment and machinery for metalworking operations, though recent state and local procurement activity under this code shows limited direct alignment with the nominal scope. The Texas A&M University System (TAMUS) has posted multiple ITBs over the past four months for press brakes, CNC lathes, machining centers, and related machine shop and fabrication equipment—all ancillary metalworking capital assets that share operational context with deburring machinery but are not deburring machines themselves. One Hillsborough County sole-source procurement covers five-year maintenance and parts for Komptech composting equipment, an entirely unrelated asset class, while two Texas Department of Transportation solicitations address OEM replacement parts for Cincinnati Shear machines, again metalworking components but not deburring equipment specifically. A California RFB for a water table CNC Hypertherm plasma cutter and a Texas Department of Criminal Justice posting for an ironworker position further demonstrate that this code receives sparse or mislabeled activity. The issuing bodies are primarily higher-education institutions (TAMUS), state departments (TxDOT, TDCJ, California), and one county government (Hillsborough County), with no school districts, transit authorities, or special-purpose districts evident in the recent record.

Geographic activity is concentrated in Texas (TAMUS, TxDOT, TDCJ) and includes one California solicitation and one Florida procurement. Representative recent opportunities include TAMUS ITB TAMUS-ITB-27-0548 for a press brake with responses due October 29, 2026, and TAMUS ITB TAMUS-ITB-26-0541 for machine shop, welding, and fabrication equipment with responses due July 15, 2026, both posted to the AggieBid platform. TxDOT ITB 601440000053313 for OEM replacement parts for a Cincinnati Shear machine closed June 2, 2026, through the Euna Procurement system. The code shows little relevant recent activity focused specifically on metal deburring machinery; the mismatch between the code's nominal scope and the equipment actually being solicited suggests either systematic mislabeling in the procurement systems or a code designation that does not reflect the work state and local agencies are currently performing.