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The few examples of the benchmarking show that there are still significant cost saving potentials in some industrial parks. The performance level makes a clear difference between high performance industrial sites and sites which have to be more consequent in their restructuring and cost saving efforts.
The developed benchmark and best practice methodology is well suited to evaluate best practice in the field of industrial park infrastructures. It should be necessary for each industrial park to understand the individual performance level and to adapt best practice in all areas. Therefore, the benchmarking and best practice discussions will be continued. The next steps are the recruitment of new participants to widen the network (data basis and experiences) especially outside Germany (e.g. Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands - e.g. the DSM site Chemelot has agreed to participate) and the further development of methodology towards an integrated analysis tool.
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