Intercon Solutions to update facility.Chicago Heights Chicago Heights, city (1990 pop. 33,072), Cook co., NE Ill., S of Chicago; settled in the 1830s, inc. as a city 1901. It is an industrial community where steel, transportation equipment, metal products, tiles, and chemicals are manufactured. Prairie State College is there. , Ill.-based Intercon Solutions has received $325,000 in grant funds from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. The company received a $250,000 Recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. Expansion and Modernization modernization Transformation of a society from a rural and agrarian condition to a secular, urban, and industrial one. It is closely linked with industrialization. As societies modernize, the individual becomes increasingly important, gradually replacing the family, (REM (REMarks) A programming language statement used for documentation. Rem statements are not executed by the compiler. They are created for people to read. Rem is also used in DOS batch files for comments as well as for disabling instructions. ) Grant to finance the implementation of a new processing system that will increase productivity and operating efficiencies while also improving safety, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a press release from Intercon Solutions. An additional $75,000 Illinois Recycling Grant will fund a security and safety equipment upgrade. A portion of the funds will be used to produce educational material to promote secure and safe recycling practices in the state, according to Intercon. "The best part about this opportunity is that our system will go automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. ... without replacing our men with machines," Timothy Osgood, Intercon Solutions director of corporate recycling, says. "In addition, enhancing our security will add another level of assurance to the recycling process." Osgood says that eventually Intercon Solutions customers will be able to view the recycling of their electronics from the comfort of their own offices from their computer monitors. The company says it hopes the processing improvements will allow it to increase profit margins and cut costs, while the surveillance system, security monitoring and safety training will improve security at the 25,000-square-foot facility. The plant will have key-card access for employees and continual video surveillance monitored by a security guard. By enhancing its security, Intercon hopes to attract a broader variety of potential customers, including government agencies, financial institutions and business entities concerned about losing proprietary information. |
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