Core Products uses energy efficiency tech to create more jobs

metromode, 4/30/2009

Smart Grid is one of the buzz phrases being tossed around as the latest advancement in sustainability. Livonia-based Core Products Group thinks it is offering a similar program for computers that could prove just as efficient.

Smart Grid technology lets customers track how much energy is being used in certain places in buildings, allowing to them to adjust to minimize energy usage. Core Products' SysTrack Power Manager promises to do much the same, but focuses on computer systems.

"It's a hands-off, computer-power manager that can reduce the amount of power used by a computer by 40-60 percent," says Connie Lilley, director of sustainable products and initiatives for Core Products Group and its subsidiary, Core Energy & Automation. "It's designed to give a very good return on investment. It's really a unique product. We don't know of anyone else who has something like it."

Core Products is marketing the system both here in Michigan and abroad. It is running corporate pilot project system tests, and a few hundred companies and universities look at the results. Core Products is anticipating up to $5 million in sales this year.

That would allow it to expand its current staff of four people at Core Products Group and 11 employees at its subsidiary, Core Energy & Automation. That could mean another 5-6 people this year.

"We're very excited about the growth potential for this product," Lilley says.

Source: Connie Lilley, director of sustainable products and initiatives for Core Products Group
Writer: Jon Zemke

Software Design , Sustainability , Wayne County