Industry

Retirement Rate
(percent)

Industry

Retirement Rate
 (percent)

Food and Kindred Products. . . . . . . . .  . .

1.7

Glass and Glass Products . . . .  . . .

1.3

Pulp and Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2.3

Hydraulic Cement . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1.2

Bulk Chemicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

1.9

Glass and Glass Products . . . .. . . .

1.3

Blast Furnace and Basic Steel Products

Primary Aluminum . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2.1

      Blast Furnace/Basic Oxygen  Furnace .    

1.0

Metal-Based Durables. . . . . . . . . . .

1.5

      Electric Arc Furnace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1.5

      Coke Ovens . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .

1.5

      Other Steel . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   . . .

2.9

Note:  Except for the Blast Furnace and Basic Steel Products Industry,  the retirement rate is the same for each process step or end-use within an industry.

Source:  Energy Information Administration, Model Documentation Report: Industrial Sector Demand Module of the National Energy Modeling System, DOE/EIA-MO64(2001), (Washington, DC, December 2000).