This initiative was launched by Business Council for Sustainable Development, Gulf of Mexico (BCSD-GM), and several consultancy companies in mid 1999. The project began with the recruitment of 10-to-20 diverse companies within about a 50-mile radius of Dallas, Texas. A group of individual companies was transformed into a dynamic cross- industry team focused on turning every gram of material running through their plants into product. Most companies opted to not report on primary products; the focus was on co-products and by-products.
The analysis of data, and the participants’ own analyses in the facilitated discussions, identified 105 synergy ideas with 57 different materials. Some of these ideas had previously been identified, but not been implemented. Participating companies reported a wide range of co- and by-products in categories such as water, organic material, solvents, alkalis, acids, metals, plastics, inorganic solids, paper, biomass, and other materials. The annual volumes reported are equally wide in range for the different materials, from less than 100 to several billion pounds annually (Dias et al. 2001).
The following regional synergy examples are documented in this database:
By-Product Synergies
Utility Synergies
More information about regional synergies in North Texas can be found on:
We would be interested to learn from other case study examples that could be added to this database:
This webpage was last modified on 15 February 2007.
Disclaimer: The synergy information is provided for general use and although we believe all data to be correct, CSRP can accept no responsibility for the accuracy of the information. All presented case-study examples are retrieved from publicly available resources.