The other significant industrial user is iron and steel production, though iron ore and various other metals used to make alloys are also significant costs.

FORBES: Energy Forecast 2013-2014: Convert to Natural Gas

The principal product is polyvinyl chloride resin, which is supplied to downstream subsidiaries to manufacture and market end-user industrial and consumer products.

FORBES: #1,487 Westlake Chemical

This country has an estimated 220 gigawatts of what you might call amateur power: emergency generators, industrial fuel cells and other user-owned power plants, compared with 1, 000 or so gigawatts of central station capacity.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Integrated Silicon Solutions (ISSI) is a specialty memory chip manufacturer that focuses on products for the communications, consumer products, automotive, industrial, medical and military end user.

FORBES: 5 Small-Cap Growth Stocks With Zero Debt

In that case, restocking on the back of a recovery in end-user demand should support a rebound in industrial production and the PMIs in March, if all goes swimmingly well.

FORBES: Barclays Warns On China

In fact industrial giant General Electric uses one such backup service for all of its hundreds of thousands of user workstations.

FORBES: Finding Your Way to the Cloud