How Tall Are Those Turbines?
The two new wind turbines at SC Johnsons’ Waxdale manufacturing facility each stand 415 feet tall to the
top blade tip. Together, they’ll reduce the carbon emissions associated with powering Waxdale
by 6,000 metric tons annually.
Waxdale is SC Johnson’s largest global manufacturing facility and is located in Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin.
The turbines help further minimize Waxdale’s dependence on fossil fuels, and mean that SC Johnson
has the largest onsite, company-owned wind turbine manufacturing project in the Midwest.
So how tall is 415 feet? Here’s how it measures up...
Statue of
Liberty
305 feet
SYdney
Opera
House
213 feet
Big Ben
316 feet
SC JOHNSON
Turbines
415 feet
Washington
Monument
556 feet
Great
Pyramid
of Giza
455 feet
Seattle
Space
Needle
604 feet
The turbine
towers are about
The turbine blades are each
135 feet long.
280 feet tall.
That’s a stack of about
370 cans
of Pledge®.
10+ feet deep.
Each foundation is made up of 800+ tons of concrete and
36 tons of steel rod, for stability and support even in severe weather.
The turbine towers are embedded in foundations that extend
SC Johnson is a family-owned and -managed company that sells products in virtually
every country around the world. Its well-known brands include Glade®, Kiwi®, OFF!®,
Pledge®, Raid®, Windex® and Ziploc®. The company also has a 262-foot-tall wind
turbine in Mijdrecht, Netherlands, that helps power its European manufacturing facility,
and SWIFT mini turbines at its Racine, Wisconsin, headquarters and Lowell, Arkansas
sales office. SC Johnson has cut greenhouse gas emissions for its worldwide factories
by more than 26% since 2000.
Find out more: www.scjohnson.com Follow: @SCJGreenChoices