Shaw to Generate Energy from Carpet

Shaw Industries, Inc. and Siemens Building Technologies, Inc. have announced a plan to generate steam energy from carpet and wood waste resulting from Shaw’s manufacturing processes. The plan will save energy while lowering Shaw’s plant emissions and reducing the amount of waste it sends to landfills. Siemens will build and service a conversion facility, to be operational by the end of 2005, near Shaw’s carpet-manufacturing plant in Dalton, Georgia. Shaw expects the plan to save the company $2.5 million each year.