Illinois

Power Plant Services (PPS), located in Melrose Park, Illinois, was established in 1998 and offers a diverse range of services such as parts manufacturing, reverse engineering, rotating and stationary equipment repair, field machining, field service, and on-site machining. PPS’ customer base includes but is not limited to: utilities, turbine repair shops, steel mills, paper mills, refineries, and OEMs. PPS exports raw material along with their turbine parts and services.

The company estimates that 35 jobs are involved with exports, making trade critical to the minority-owned business. PPS said there have been several bids they lost because of the additional taxes/tariffs their customer would have to pay for PPS products compared to their customer’s local vendor options. PPS has faced tariffs as high as 30 percent on some of their products.