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In addition, plant employees<br />

volunteer with local schools to<br />

further science education.<br />

While tissue manufacturing<br />

requires large amounts of water,<br />

Colgrove proudly notes that<br />

design changes and new<br />

processes currently being<br />

implemented will reduce water<br />

consumption at the plant by 75<br />

percent.<br />

With its prominent role in a<br />

worldwide organization,<br />

Colgrove anticipates that the<br />

Beech Island facilities will<br />

eventually add more products<br />

to their manufacturing lines.<br />

Innovation is a major focus at<br />

Kimberly-Clark. “We’re very<br />

focused on our global business<br />

plan. Our goal is to expand the<br />

appeal of existing products and<br />

come up with new ones,” he<br />

said.<br />

Big expansion, big numbers<br />

880,000<br />

square feet of new building space<br />

Equivalent to: 21 acres<br />

18 football fields<br />

450 average houses<br />

1 million<br />

man-hours to construct<br />

75,000<br />

tons of gravel for roads, trailer parking, foundations<br />

400,000<br />

cubic yards of dirt hauled, all available on site<br />

Equivalent to: 41,000 dump truck loads<br />

A 24-story building the size of a football field<br />

500<br />

miles of wire<br />

Equivalent to: Driving <strong>from</strong> Augusta National<br />

to U.S. Golf Association Hall of Fame, St. Petersburg, Fla.<br />

38,000<br />

cubic yards of concrete<br />

Equivalent to: 4,200 concrete trucks<br />

130 miles of city sidewalk<br />

3,480<br />

Tons of building steel<br />

Equivalent to: 7 million pounds of steel<br />

2,500 Ford Mustangs<br />

18 <strong>SCANA</strong> Insights

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