JACKSON, S.C. - A company known for making Kleenex tissues and Huggies diapers said Monday it would use methane gas from a landfill to generate steam for a facility here.
Dallas-based Kimberly-Clark Corp. will use the methane gas released by waste decomposition at the Three Rivers Solid Waste Authority landfill in Aiken County. Siemens Building Technologies is designing and building the gas collection facility and 15-mile pipeline from the landfill to the manufacturing facility.
U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett, R-S.C., applauded the landfill gas-to-energy partnership and said it would help the nation become less dependent on energy sources abroad.
Construction has started and the project is scheduled to be operational in April.
The Illinois-based Siemens Building Technologies Inc. is the U.S. affiliate of Siemens Building Technologies, Zurich. A unit of the German electronic engineering giant Siemens AG, it makes building automation and control systems.