Volvo Trucks says its Ghent, Belgium, plant will soon be entirely free of equipment carbon dioxide emissions.
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Three wind-power generating stations will be built beside the plant along with a new biofuel production facility to supply electricity and heating without making any net contribution to the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
The assembly plant currently relies mainly on natural gas for heating but, to make the plant free of carbon dioxide emissions, it will switch entirely to environmentally compatible energy sources.
This energy will be produced by the new wind-power generating stations and the new biofuel facility being constructed by Belgian firm Electrabel. The project will begin next year.
The Ghent project is part of Volvo’s drive to make all of its production plants carbon dioxide-free. Its Tuve plant in Sweden was the first to do so.
Employing 1,500, Ghent makes the FH, FM and FL truck models, building 30,400 for European buyers in 2005.
