Projects
Industrial Machinery and Manufacturing Equipment IndustryThe Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs is now in its eighth year of sponsoring a cooperative industrial market energy conservation initiative with the Energy Resources Center. In previous years, the Center has conducted studies of the plastics processing, metal fastener, food, chemicals and pulp & paper industries. Each study included energy audits of five manufacturing plants. Currently being performed are energy and economic studies of the industrial machinery and equipment manufacturing industry (SIC 35) which includes such diverse manufacturing categories as engines, farm machinery, construction machinery, metalworking equipment, computers and refrigeration equipment. The industrial equipment industry has been chosen for this study because of its overall importance to the Illinois economy and the opportunities for significant improvements in the utilization of energy resources. In 1998, industrial manufacturing plants purchased in excess of 106 billion kilowatt hours of electric energy. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are over 5,000 industrial equipment manufacturing plants in Illinois. They employ 145,500 people in our state and their payrolls add $5.55 billion to our economy. Approximately 38% of facilities in this category are considered large plants (20 employees or more).
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