Great Lakes Region Leads U.S. in Industrial Plant Sites

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Did you know that 21% of the more than 32,000 major industrial plant sites in the U.S. are located in the Great Lakes region, which includes the states of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin? Other regions of high industrial plant concentration include both the Southeast and Southwest regions, which are each home to about 14% of the U.S. plant population.

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Industrial Manufacturing Industry leads all industries in plant population with more than 8,600 plants, or about 27% of the total. This broad industry covers a spectrum of heavy manufacturing sectors, including automobile, semiconductor, and electronics manufacturing, as well as other key growth sectors like shipping ports/terminals and mass transit/light rail operations.

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After the Industrial Manufacturing Industry, the second largest industry in the U.S., in regard to the number of operational plants, is the Food & Beverage Industry, which has more than 6,000 major plants, or about 19% of the total.

The third and fourth largest industries in the U.S. are the Metals & Minerals and the Chemical Processing industries, respectively. Each of these industries command about 12% of the total.

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