| BMW to use landfill
methane to power S.C. paint shop May 8 -- Not every car that BMW Manufacturing Co. paints will be the same color. But the company is touting its paint shop in Spartanburg, S.C., as being "green." BMW will start using methane gas generated by the nearby Palmetto landfill near Spartanburg to provide energy for the paint shop, the company said. "BMW is the first automotive paint shop to integrate the use of landfill gas in its process equipment," said Dave Ciuffoletti, vice president of sales. A 9.5-mile pipeline was constructed from the Waste Management Inc. landfill to the automotive plant in 2002 to provide some of the manufacturing plantīs energy needs, the company said. Now the company has upgraded and modified equipment to allow the use of landfill gas to run the paint shop.
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