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2016 Media Kit

REACH ECO-MINDED MANUFACTURERS

Chandler SlavinDordan Mfg.

Toby DuveneckWhiteWave Foods Company

Mary Ellen MikaSteelcase Inc.

Oliver CampbellDell Inc.

Jeffrey WillisEmma Hill Mfg.

The Sustainable Manufacturer Network (SMN) strives to help manufacturers put sustainability to work in their plants and operations cost-effectively.

Our website is designed with a continuous stream of fresh sustainability content, a job board, and a networking section that cultivates meaningful exchanges and group collaboration. We launched an e-magazine rich with original articles and stories that engage readers and drive traffic to our advertisers’ websites. We’ve created a strong presence in social media on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. And we’re very proud of the successes that our sponsors and exhibitors realized at the first annual Sustainable Manufacturer Conference & Exhibits. The event provided opportunities for real handshakes with prospective customers.

Partnering with us increases your access to thousands of manufacturers—small, medium, large, and FORTUNE 500®-large—from a diverse range of industries. They include metal fabricators, food and chemical processors, computers and electronic product makers, plastics and rubber products manufacturers, furniture-makers, and machinery and appliance manufacturers. Our audience is your target market, including 230 manufacturers on the FORTUNE 500 list at more than 2,700 locations such as 3M, Boeing, Caterpillar, DuPont, GM, General Electric, Honeywell International, Intel Corp., Kraft, Proctor & Gamble, and Whirlpool.

You can be assured that your message reaches the following manufacturing decision-makers: president/vice president (49%), owner (18%), production and plant operations management (12%), engineering (8%), and other titles, such as sustainability director.

We hope you will join us in 2016 as we continue our efforts to educate and connect ecosavvy manufacturers.

My best regards,

Editor Kate Bachman has been covering manufacturing and sustainability for over a decade. She has met with thousands of manufacturers and visited hundreds of plants, learning best sustainable strategies and culling them to relay to her readers.

By becoming a member, you’ll have access to eco-minded manufacturers keen to buy your green and sustainable products and services. SMN members save on a host of benefits, including advertising. Membership is affordable, too, at $150. Join today at sustainablemfr.com/membership or by calling 888-394-4362.

Advertising OpportunitiesWEBSITE

Sustainablemfr.com is the online information tool of choice for those responsible for driving the transition to ecosavvy manufacturing. Your target customers who are looking for ways to manufacture in sustainable ways, reduce costs, and improve energy efficiencies will find what they are looking for on SMN’s site.

Home page opportunities:

1 Video - Exclusive Placement Using a video to promote a product or service can result

in that promotion having viral marketing appeal, meaning viewers can e-mail or share the video with colleagues. Your company’s video and 300-character description appears in a prominent location on sustainablemfr.com as well as in the “More Videos” section. $1,200/month nonmember $1,000/month member

2 Square banner - 1 Position Available (Rotates with up to 3 advertisers)

300 x 300 pixels $795/month nonmember $595/month member

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300 x 150 pixels $350/month nonmember • $250/month member

Content page opportunities:

Multimedia – same options and prices as above, but displayed in right column of all posts (i.e. articles, news releases, etc.).

Advertorials – Give your traditional advertisements a twist. Write an article highlighting your key customers’ application of your product. $795/month nonmember • $595/month member

Job Board and Online Community opportunities:

Looking to directly target SMN members? Sustainable job seekers? Various banner sizes and placements are available on connect.sustainablemfr.com or jobs.sustainablemfr.com and can be included with any advertising package.

2016 Schedule: Special Emphasis Show/Conference Issue

Jan.12, 2016 (ad close 1/5/16)) Energy

Feb. 9, 2016 (ad close 2/2/16) Material Handling MODEX April 4 - 7

March 8, 2016 (ad close 3/1/16) Biobased Materials Intl. Biomass Conf. & Expo, April 11-14

April 12, 2016 (ad close 4/5/16) Lighting Lightfair April 26 - 28

May 10, 2016 (ad close 5/3/16) Energy

June 14, 2016 (ad close 6/7/16 Emissions

July 12, 2016 (ad close 7/5/16) Water Reuse, Conservation

Aug. 10, 2016 (ad close 8/3/16) Solar Solar Power Intl. September 12-15

Sept. 13, 2016 (ad close 9/6/16) Green Facilities Greenbuild Expo, Oct. 5-7

Oct. 11, 2016 (ad close 10/4/16) Packaging Materials Pack Expo Intl., Nov 6 - 9, 2016

Nov. 8, 2016 (ad close 11/1/16) Waste Redux

Dec. 13, 2016 (ad close 12/6/16) Cleaners, Lubricants

Dates subject to change.

E-ZINE

The Sustainable Manufacturer Network distributes a monthly electronic magazine (e-zine) with industry-specifi c content on energy effi ciency, air/emissions, waste management, materials, renewable energy, and water reuse and fi ltrationin every issue.

Advertising in the e-zine delivers your message to more than 20,000 qualifi ed subscribers who rely on it for articles highlighting the latest best practices; regulatory, news, and product information; as well as Network happenings.

important to your suppliers.4. Relay your commitment to your legislators.5. Live it. Bring it home. Be the change. Your sphere of influence can be great.

Join SMN and Get Access to Enviro.BLR

Enviro.BLR is one of the SMN premium member benefits. The service provides easy-to-understand analysis offederal and state regulations, as well as forms, checklists, PowerPoint presentations, quizzes, and hundreds of othertraining materials covering the topics you need, including both Spanish and Audio-only resources. A searchable,comprehensive database also contains more than 3.5 million MSDSs. An individual company subscribing to their resource on state and federal environmental compliance pays $1,195 ayear. SMN members receive the service as complimentary! Learn more about joining SMN.

Ecosavvy Newsmakers Manufacturing Innovation Institute to research advanced composites DOE sets new standards for fluorescent lamps, commercial ice makers Green Supply Chain Award winners include Crown Equipment,WhiteWave Foods, Cascades NACCO Materials Handling Group acquires Nuvera Fuel Cells Crown Lift Trucks achieves zero landfill status Mercom Capital Group reports 2014 strong year for solar

SMN Conference & Exhibits – Call for Speakers Open

Member SpotlightSilvia Leahu-AluasSustainable ManufacturingConsulting

SMN member Silvia Leahu-Aluas is anindependent consultant in sustainablemanufacturing. She is theprincipal/owner at SustainableManufacturing Consulting, a soleproprietorship based in Indiana. Inpartnership with other sustainabilityconsultants, she serves the U.S.manufacturing community and works toaccomplish several objectives:maintaining and developing a strong,long-term production base in the U.S.domestic market; adopting, practicing,and developing sustainablemanufacturing; mainstreaming thecircular economy. (Read more.)

Attention Job Seekers

A company in Illinois is looking for a full-timeengineering technician. Learn about this opportunityor find other job openings on SMN's Job Board.

GreenovationsElectrocoats reduce energy consumption, carbon emissions Thermal camera locates energy waste sources Recycling container accommodates smart-bin sensor technology Parts washer cleans without solvents, emissions

Biodegradable water-table fluid prevents corrosion

Sustainable Manufacturer Network (SMN) ... connecting & educating ecosavvy manufacturers

SMN e-Zine is an official, monthly publication of:Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, Intl.® (FMA)

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January 2015 issue

YOUR GUIDE FOR PUTTING SUSTAINABILITY TO WORK INYOUR PLANT AND OPERATIONS

Submeteringhelps heattreatment planttrack energyand waterconsumption

Monitoring takes the heat out of resource costs As one of the largest metal heat treatment plants on the West Coast,Byington Steel Treating, Inc.’s operations range from heat treating,

hardening, and degreasing to stress loading, failure testing, and freezing –all of which are energy-intensive processes. Giant furnaces, cryogenicfreezers, straightening presses, and degreasing machinery at the plantoperate for hours at a time during multiple shifts, consuming vast quantitiesof electricity, gas, and water.

The energy and water consumption costs must be charged to individualclients' products. Too, plant managers needed a way to identify inefficientprocesses and potential machinery failures. However, measuring andmanaging individual production costs using master metering, in which asingle meter tracks all gas usage, another tracks all electricity use, and athird tracks all water use, was nearly impossible.

Byington Steel Treating CEO Kathryn Byington and her staff installedsubmetering and monitoring systems to isolate energy and water usageaccurately and in real time. (Read more.)

Out-of-the-boxsustainablepackagingoptions formanufacturers

Lighter, tighter, biobased, biodegradable, recycled Packaging manufacturers are under increasing environmental pressure toreduce both the amount of material used in packaging and what is headedfor the landfill. In some countries and states, that pressure is beingamplified by extended producer responsibility legislation, which makespackaging producers and users responsible for end-of-life costs.

Luckily for manufacturers, their options for meeting these packagingchallenges are increasing. Read about several companies that have light-weighted and downsized; increased waste material recovery and recycledcontent; incorporated biodegradable and recyclable plant-based polymersin their packaging; and explored ecofriendly adhesives and coatings.

Have a great sustainability story? Topic? There’s still time to share it

Call for Speakers for the Sustainable Manufacturer Conference & Exhibits extended

The Sustainable Manufacturer Network has extended the call for speakers for our May 2015 event in Naperville, Ill.until Jan. 30. If you have implemented a successful sustainability initiative and would like to share your success withothers, we would love for you to join us. Simply submit an abstract to SMN and we’ll follow up with you. We welcomecase studies on reducing energy use, achieving energy self-sufficiency, reaching waste management goals, good airor water management, and implementing ecofriendly fluids or materials best practices.

The Sustainable Manufacturer Network Advisory Board

6 Ways to “Be the change” "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." This magnificent advice iscommonly attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, though some dispute that Gandhi was itssource. Skeptics speculate that the quote may have morphed from longer prosestatements that the great peacemaker made or that the aphorism is a compilation ofstatements by several people. No matter. Though I’m usually a stickler for accuracyin quoting, in this case, I’m thoroughly willing to concede that the quote may be aconglomeration and that Gandhi very likely embraced the sentiment, even if he didn’tsay it.

What is critical at this point in time, when our environmental standard of living isthreatened, is that sustainable manufacturers stand together to grow a culture ofsustainability, renewability, and eco-responsibility.

How? If you have not already: 1. Join our Sustainable Manufacturer Network.2. Participate in our conference, workshops, and webinars.3. Compose a corporate sustainability plan. Here are some great examples.

Editorial

Kate BachmanSMN Editor kateb@sustainablemfr.comtwitter.com/greenmanufacts

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Advertising Opportunities

Advertising OpportunitiesGross Rates: (Frequency, targeted audience, combination channel discounts available)

Gross Rates1x

(nonmember • member)

4x (nonmember •

member)

12x (nonmember •

member)

1) Full Banner Ad – 600 x 150 pixels $795 • $595 $2,862 • $2,142 $7,632 • $5,712

2) Text Ad/Paid Sponsorship – 100 words or less and company logo

$695 • $495 $2,502 • $1,782 $6,672 • $4,752

3) Button Ad – 300 x 150 pixels $695 • $495 $2,502 • $1,782 $6,672 • $4,752

FOUR MONTH* ADVERTISING PACKAGE

Includes a 600x150 Full Banner Ad in four issues of the SMN e-zine and a 300x150 Rectangle Banner and Video on sustainablemfr.com. $6,640 gross nonmember · $5,920 gross member*Months must be consecutive

EVENT SPONSORSHIPS

Bring your advertising to life! When it comes to relationship-building there is no substitute for personal face-to-face contact. Be sure that you are positioned as a key player in the industry by making sponsorship of SMN events part of your marketing strategy. Opportunities vary – see sustainablemfr.com/events for additional details

WEBINARS

Gain direct exposure to customers by hosting a webinar. Presentations via SMN’s webinar platform are a convenient way to showcase your solutions to an interactive audience. You present on the topic of your choice, and SMN promotes the event and provides you with all attendee leads. $4,250 gross nonmember • $3,950 gross member

WHITEPAPERS

Raise awareness and be recognized as a leader with an informative report. Papers are included in the “Resources” section of sustainablemfr.com, advertised as a text ad on the homepage, and promoted via e-blasts. SMN will provide you with a list of website visitors who view your paper. $1,400 per year nonmember • $1,200 per year member

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