Industries and manufacturing plants use many different types of energy resources to create the products that we use every day.

For example, most industrial facilities use big boilers that burn fuel to make heat. That heat energy is used to boil water and make steam. The steam then can be converted to electricity or used in the manufacturing process.

The fuel that many paper mills and building products plants use is biomass: wood waste and bark. This makes good use of resources that might otherwise end up in landfills.

Click on the numbers on the illustration below to learn more about this process!