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ATLANTA, GA -- Shaw Industries and Siemens Building Technologies, Inc., have developed a process for converting carpet and wood manufacturing waste into steam energy and, as a result, will lower plant emissions, greatly reduce the amount of post-manufacturing carpet waste in landfills, and save Shaw's Dalton, GA, plant up to $2.5 million per year.
In an October 13th release, Siemens announced that it will design, build, and service a conversion facility adjacent to Shaw's carpet manufacturing plant in Dalton, Georgia. The facility, which is scheduled to be fully operable by the end of 2005, will convert by-products of Shaw's manufacturing process--carpet selvage, seam waste, and wood flour--into gas which will fuel a boiler to produce more than 50,000 pounds of steam per hour. Shaw will then use the steam in its manufacturing operations in Dalton.
Bill Barron, Shaw vice president of manufacturing, says the project will convert per year approximately 16,000 tons of post-manufacturing and post-consumer carpet waste, and 6,000 tons of wood flour.
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