Chicago Manufacturing Center provides sustainability strategy and operations consulting for manufacturing and public stakeholders investing in the green economy. CMC and its partner network implement solutions for Lean and Green Business Processes, Building Retrofit, Sustainable Practices Coaching, Market Diversification and Growth, and By-product/Materials Reuse.  Clients achieve significant growth and cost efficiency results as they transform their strategy, operations and supply chains. Typical results include sales and profit growth, energy and water optimization, carbon emissions reduction and offset, workforce and productivity improvement, climate change mitigation and adaptation and sustainability branding. 

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• CLIENT TESTIMONIAL
  
  "Our work with CMC has made an enormous difference for us. As a small company, you have to be ahead of the market. People who wouldn't give us an interview in the past now want to talk. This [Sustainable Leadership] is a wonderful way to evaluate your company. There isn't any reason why every manufacturer wouldn't want to do it. If each of us can make a small improvement, it can make a big difference in the world."
  
  --Marvin Klein, President, PortionPac Chemical Corporation
  
  "The value stream map was key to streamlining our quoting process: we broke it down, made it simple, and made it better. As our partner in launching our lean journey, CMC added value by helping us to see where we needed to improve, rather than stagnating or becoming overly reliant on outside experts for our own improvements."
  
  --Andrew Gabelman, President, Chief Enterprises