GreenPlants Initiative

How do Chicago 's smaller manufacturers transform themselves to survive the onslaught of intense global competition? One answer is CMC's new GreenPlants initiative.

GreenPlants helps small and midsize manufacturers in the Chicago metropolitan region to implement-step by step-sustainable or green manufacturing practices to improve the health of their business.

GreenPlants also has an economic development mission. The GreenPlants' initiative expands on Mayor Richard Daley's goal to make the city the greenest in the nation. CMC wants to make Chicago the "greenest and most sustainable" industrial region in the country.

The primary focus of the Green Plants section of this site is to show progress on the sustainable development of Chicago businesses.

• CLIENT TESTIMONIAL
  
  "Chicago Manufacturing Center's partner, Aptium Global, went farther with specifications that I had ever done to ascertain the carbon content of the steel in the inner springs. Lisa Reisman's plan helped offset the post-Katrina price increase for foam."
  
  --Tim Enright, President, Estee Bedding
  
  "Although Aurora Bearing employees have had a lot of exposure to Lean, the Manufacturing Critical Path-time approach was new to us. We are better prepared to balance the production flow and deal with fluctuations in customer needs. The Chicago Manufacturing Center team did a great job. We found the experience very rewarding."
  
  --Jerry Ward, Plant Manager, Aurora Bearing