NORBIC to Administer Business Assistance to Illinois Metalcasting Industry.The Illinois Dept. of Commerce & Community Affairs (DCCA DCCA Department of Commerce and Community Affairs DCCA Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs DCCA Dependable Computing for Critical Applications (Conference) DCCA Debian Common Core Alliance DCCA Dupont Circle Citizens Association ) has announced the award of $300,000 to be used for direct assistance to the metalcasting industry within Illinois. The funds will be administered by the Environmental Assistance Center at the North Business & Industrial Council (NORBIC), Chicago. In addition, a number of organizations will be supplying expertise to the project, including the Energy Resources Center at the Univ. of Illinois- Chicago; the Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources Waste Management & Research Center; Commonwealth Edison's Industrial Programs Div.; the Northeast-Midwest Institute; the Illinois EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention; the Metal Casting Metal casting A metal-forming process whereby molten metal is poured into a cavity or mold and, when cooled, solidifies and takes on the characteristic shape of the mold. Center at the Univ. of Iowa; the City of Chicago; the Illinois Manufacturing Extension Center at Bradley Univ.; and the Energy Systems Div. at Argonne National Laboratories Argonne National Laboratory, research center, based in Argonne, Ill., 27 mi (43 km) SW of downtown Chicago, with other facilities at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, 50 mi (80 km) W of Idaho Falls, Idaho. Founded in 1946 by the U.S. . The project will fund assessments and technical services at six or more Illinois metalcasting facilities over the next 2 years. "This project's goal is to assist casting facilities catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. , assess, research and implement opportunities for energy efficiencies, scrap reduction, productivity increases, pollution prevention, information transfer, workforce training and innovative financing," said NORBIC President Carl Bufalini. Firms that volunteer for the project will work closely with experts to audit their plant's current status and address short- and long-term strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. questions. |
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