Landfill Emissions Help Power Fujifilm Plant

Fujifilm's primary U.S. manufacturing complex in Greenwood, SC, will use methane gas from a local community landfill to power approximately 40% of the facility's operations.

Two of the facility's four boilers will use approximately 197 billion BTUs of methane-generated energy, the equivalent of the amount of energy used to heat more than 5,000 homes each year.

“This landfill gas-to-energy project will help us reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 10%, will significantly reduce our energy costs and will reduce our dependence on fossil fuels,” says Johnny Udo, director of environmental, health and safety for Fujifilm in South Carolina.

By 2010, Fujifilm intends to reduce global energy consumption at its large manufacturing facilities by 10% from its 1999 levels, and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20% from 1990 levels. www.fujifilmgs.com