EcoThermics, a 'green' start-up company located in the Peoria NEXT Innovation Center plans to begin product production locally.  EcoThermics has developed an innovative CO2 heat pump technology that is touted to be highly efficient and green.  EcoThermics announced that Mennie Machine Co. in Mark, near LaSalle-Peru, will handle prototype production for its thermal pump.

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