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Industries of the Future: A look at the Northeast |
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In a
new initiative underway, NETI
is teaming up with the Department of Energy, the Northeast Regional
Industrial Technology Collaborative, and Alfred University to identify
Northeast Regional Industries of the Future. The project is an extension
of the national Industries of the Future (IOF) effort, spearheaded
by DOE's Office of Industrial Technologies, to identify the most
energy intensive and waste generating industries in the U.S. and
to help bring industry leaders together to develop a vision of their
future, a technology "roadmap", and an implementation plan. In a
roadmap industry identifies current technologies and barriers, sets
priorities, targets critical technology needs of industry, and determines
where research needs are the greatest. The original national IOF's included the chemical, petroleum refining, forest products, steel, aluminum, metal casting, and glass industries. Together these seven industries account for over 80 percent of the volume of waste and pollution generated in manufacturing and about 66 percent of all pollution control expenditures in manufacturing. The project collaborators are examining the industries that have the highest impact on energy use and waste production in the northeast. Potential industries include forest products (including hardwoods), metal casting, forming, and finishing, glass and ceramics, electronics, chemicals (including plastic resins and plastics fabrication), agriculture (including dairy), steel, aluminum, mining, and petroleum. The team is also examining cross linkages among different industrial sectors such as metals finishing and electronics manufacturing to assess the cumulative impact of linked industries on energy use and waste generation. NETI is working closely with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, the lead state agency in the regional collaborative. A final report identifying and characterizing the high impact industries in the northeast is expected by fall 2000. In a related project, NETI will be facilitating a one-day workshop in early 2000 in Boston, Massachusetts to bring state legislators and energy and environment industry leaders together to discuss the identification of IOF's in Massachusetts. from
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