Economic Development Blog

Is your Chicago-area corporation seeking more ways to “walk the walk” when it comes to sustainability?  If so, corporate real estate executives and their companies can turn to The Chicago Manufacturing Center (CMC).  The CMC is a not-for-profit management consulting group delivering sustainability-driven solutions to businesses in the six-county Chicagoland region.
The ECO2 Program is designed to help manufacturers in Illinois accomplish four goals:
1. Become more profitable
2. Create job growth
3. Reduce energy use and CO2 emissions
4. Increase recycling and reuse

For example, in 2009, the CMC Waste-to-Profit program:
• Provided $10,728,430 in economic impact to participating companies.
• Created 80 new jobs
• Eliminated 114,711 tons of waste from going to landfills,
• Saved 52,314 tons of carbon dioxide from the air
For more information and sample programs, visit www.cmcusa.org and www.wastetoprofit.com.

For more information contact:
Demetria Giannisis, President and CEO
Chicago Manufacturing Center
312-542-0500
dgiannisis@cmcusa.org