Article: Firms start to reap green benefits

SYRACUSE - Interviews with about a dozen Central New York manufacturers show that they are making substantial investments in "green" initiatives, such as cutting energy usage and waste, and are beginning to obtain tangible business benefits from these efforts.

"Our sales have doubled in the last five years, but our power costs have stayed the same," says Roland Beck, president of Tessy Plastics Corp., a custom-injection molding company based in Elbridge. "That says something" about the success of the company's green initiatives, he adds.

The cost of energy is driving people to look for alternatives, and the payback time is much shorter for such green technologies, says Randall Wolken, ...

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