Shaw Preparing To Add Carpet Powered Boiler

Dalton, GA, Feb. 17, 2010--Shaw Industries showed off its 19-month-old carpet-to-energy facility Tuesday as the carpet maker prepares to add an even larger carpet-powered boiler at another Dalton plant by September, according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

By September, Shaw plans another type of carpet-to-energy facility at Plant 81, also in Dalton, capable of turning 76 million pounds of reclaimed carpet a year into steam and electricity.

The plants require special equipment to limit particulate emissions.

Shaw has invested more than $10 million in Plant 80 to save more than $1 million on its natural gas bill during good years, he said.

Shaw officials say they remain committed to reusing more carpet and reducing company wastes. The company has set a corporate goal of reducing its energy consumption by 25 percent and increasing alternative energy sources by 10 percent by 2017, using 2007 levels as a baseline.

"It's really through innovation and reaching out through environmental solutions that we continue to move this company and industry forward," Hal Long, executive vice president for Shaw Industries, told the newspaper.

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