MARKET PROFILE Armstrong World Industries
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KANKAKEE COUNTY TOP EMPLOYERS TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE GENERAL MANUFACTURING LIFE SCIENCES FIBER Dark fiber is accessible from multiple carriers. CSL Behring ..........................................................................1400 MilliporeSigma..........................................................................76 WATER Plant upgrades will enable Aqua Illinois to PLASTICS MANUFACTURING deliver 30 MGD in 2018. 2018 Pactiv Corporation .....................................................................75 ITW Zip-Pak ............................................................................45 INTERSTATE ACCESS Ring Container Technologies ...................................................30 Five I-57 Exits, including new Bourbonnais AAF Flanders ..........................................................................380 Parkway interchange at Exit 318 MARKET PROFILE Armstrong World Industries ...................................................250 HEALTH CARE Crown Beverage Company .....................................................141 Riverside Healthcare .......................................................3015 J.R. Edwards Brushes and Rollers Inc ....................................140 Cigna Healthcare...................................................................1300 AIR KANKAKEE COUNTY Edmund Allen Lumber Company .........................................95 Shapiro Developmental Center .............................................1183 Greater Kankakee Airport is the Chicago Southland’s largest IKO Midwest Inc........................................................................89 Presence Saint Mary’s Hospital ...........................................1077 regional airport, with the longest runway outside of Midway Inter- VanVoorst Lumber Company Inc .........................................83 Illinois Veteran’s Home ...........................................................360 national, at 5,981 feet. As of 2017, GKA is also home to a state-of- Dayton Superior Corporation ....................................................66 Indian Oaks Academy..............................................................341 the-art, $65 million Illinois Army National Guard Readiness Center ITW Angleboard ........................................................................50 OAK Orthopedics .....................................................................132 and Army Aviation Support Facility. Electron Beam Technologies Inc ...............................................50 Milwaukee Vulcan Materials Company .......................................................33 FOOD PROCESSING Kankakee County is in close proximity to Midway Airport, which is Detroit Among the fastest growing metros in the Greater Fibre Drum ................................................................................32 Cleveland drivable in 50 minutes and accessible by River Valley Metro shuttle Chicago Ag Reliant Genetics ..................................................................27 service, and O’Hare International Airport, drivable in 60 minutes. Pittsburgh Chicago region, Kankakee County is ideally situated Greif Inc .....................................................................................22 Kankakee 45 miles south of Downtown Chicago along the I-57 County Indianapolis Washington D.C. IRON, STEEL & METALS INDUSTRIES RAIL PUBLIC Cincinnati Corridor. Ready access to the interstate, Class I rail, all Nucor Steel .............................................................................480 St. Louis utilities, fiber, workforce and Enterprise Zone incentives • Canadian National TRANSPORTATION Louisville Peddinghaus Corporation ..................................................272 • Norfolk Southern • Amtrak means our diverse business community, including Shoup Manufacturing ........................................................200 Van Drunen Farms ...............................................................630 • Union Pacific • River Valley Metro bus service Stor-Loc ....................................................................................50 Del Monte Fresh Produce Company........................................310 Nashville Fortune and Global 500 companies, is able to thrive. VanFab Inc ..............................................................................50 Momence Packing Company/Johnsonville .............................300 • Showbus rural bus service Arctic Snow and Ice Control .....................................................42 Silva International ...............................................................200 ABC Coating .............................................................................40 FutureCeuticals .....................................................................83 Belson Steel Center and Scrap .................................................40 Plochman Inc..........................................................................86 Dabrico Inc ................................................................................20 J.R. Short Milling Company ......................................................80 TAXES & INCENTIVES Gilster Mary-Lee Corporation ...................................................80 CHEMICALS MANUFACTURING Dawn Food Products Inc............................................................76 BUSINESS Urban Farmer LLC ..................................................................50 SALES TAX Bunge Milling ............................................................................24 INCOME TAX Heartland Harvest .................................................................20 7% of net income 6.25% TRANSPORTATION/DISTRIBUTION/LOGISTICS INCENTIVES FOR QUALIFYING PROJECTS BASF USA................................................................................170 ENTERPRISE ZONE PROGRAM • 5-year property tax abatement Valspar Corporation ................................................................169 In Kankakee County, enterprise zones provide valuable tools • Sales tax exemption on building materials Dow Chemical Company ...........................................................60 that enable business to invest, grow and hire. Together, our • Free/discounted building permits Sun Chemical Corporation ........................................................54 community’s two enterprise zones have seen the addition of W.W. Henry Company LP ..........................................................40 nearly 6,500 jobs, as well as, more than $1 billion in capital • Investment tax credit Hubergroup USA .......................................................................39 investment in more than 250 projects. • Machinery/equipment sales tax exemption Baker and Taylor .....................................................................570 • Utility tax exemption OTHER Sears Logistics ........................................................................169 Olivet Nazarene University .....................................................550 A.N. Webber Inc ...................................................................146 Kankakee Community College ...............................................500 Hoekstra Transportation .....................................................125 Kankakee Nursery ...................................................................140 Kmart Distribution Center .......................................................116 K.B. Cores ................................................................................125 DHL Mars/Exel ........................................................................106 The Daily Journal ...............................................................116 Swift Transportation ...............................................................100 Aqua Illinois ..........................................................................85 Pepsi Beverages Company .......................................................64 Martin Whalen Office Solutions .........................................45 Innovel Solutions.......................................................................62 Illinois Army National Guard and Aviation Support ................40 Fedex Freight .............................................................................32 Phone: 815-935-1177 • 200 E. Court St. Suite 507 Kankakee IL, 60901 Monical Pizza Corporation ..................................................39 Bold indicates headquarters location. LABOR FORCE & JOBS LEADING LOCAL INDICATORS EDUCATION & TRAINING JOB GROWTH LABOR FORCE OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY KCC’s award-winning and nationally certified electrical technology program, in part, prepares students for real-world jobs in the 2016 to 2017 DRIVE TIMES With more than 140 fields of study and enrollment of more than Growth Year Over Year emerging solar, wind and geothermal industries. The program has 5,000, ONU is ranked as one of the Best Colleges for 2018 by January......................................................... + 0 begun to build a pipeline of qualified workers for EDF Renewable “U.S. News & World Report.” This is the Bourbonnais university’s Energy’s local Pilot Hill and Kelly Creek wind farms. February.....................................................+ 1,000 Cook 13th consecutive year for inclusion on this prestigious list. March ......................................................... + 500 KANKAKEE AREA CAREER CENTER April ............................................................ + 300 Will KACC aims