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Article: 32nd Annual Plant Construction Survey: Bright ideas for going green: green is here to stay. It's the color of savings when utilities are conserved and production is peaked.(Cover story)
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- Food Engineering
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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The weakened economy has slowed plant construction projects in 2008 compared to 2007, and total new, expansion, renovation and distribution/storage projects were also down a little from 2005 and 2006 data, according to Food Engineering's 32nd Annual Plant Construction Survey (see graph below). The survey on pages 50 to 71 lists all projects valued at $1 million or more in the planning stages, underway or completed in 2008.
New projects decreased by 23% in 2008 compared to 2007 (195 in 2008 and 253 in 2007), were down slightly (4%) compared to 2006, but were up 22% from 2005. Total projects in 2008 (493) were down 19% compared to ...