Société Fromagère De Bouvron

Société Fromagère De Bouvron is a food & beverage plant in France with a reported capacity of 811,785,044 USD. It processes food, beverages or tobacco — typically with boilers, cookers and dryers. By capacity it ranks #132 of 173 food & beverage plants tracked in France. It emits about 36,510 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 8,510 cars.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-38480379.

Im Kontext: wie sich diese Anlage vergleicht

Bei 811,785,044 USD ist Société Fromagère De Bouvron etwa um dem Medianwert von food & beverage plant in France (811,785,044 USD). Untersektor: food-beverage-tobacco. Als food & beverage plant benötigt es intensive Prozesswärme (typischerweise 80–200°C) für seinen Kernbetrieb — Wärme, die durch Dampfkessel, Öfen oder direkte Verbrennung geliefert werden muss, und Verluste durch ungedämmte Behälter und Rohrleitungen stellen verschwendeten Brennstoff dar. Modulare abnehmbare Dämmung kann diese Verluste um 80–96% senken, Oberflächen auf ≤45°C kühlen, mit Amortisationszeiten oft unter 2 Jahren. Lebens- und Genussmittelbetriebe nutzen Dampfkessel, Kochgeräte, Pasteurisiergeräte und Trockner, die kontinuierlich laufen; Wärmeverlust aus ungedämmten Rohrleitungen und Behältern reduziert Durchsatz und Effizienz direkt.

Vergleich von Kapazität und CO₂-Intensität berechnet aus Climate TRACE Industrieanlagendaten; Sektorrolle basierend auf Ingenieurreferenz.

What 36,510 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's reported annual CO₂e in the everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:

Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest food & beverage plants in France

Reported capacity (USD), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).

Local climate

Société Fromagère De Bouvron sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 47.4°N in the northern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby sites

The #132 largest of 173 food & beverage plants in France by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Total Donges Refinery · Refinery · 1,965,420 t CO₂
• Cargill France Montoir · Food & Beverage · 36,510 t CO₂
• Raffinage Tereos · Food & Beverage · 36,510 t CO₂
• Cargill France · Food & Beverage · 36,510 t CO₂
• Herbignac Cheese Ingredients · Food & Beverage · 36,510 t CO₂
• Mondelez International · Food & Beverage · 36,510 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 47.41, -1.87. View on OpenStreetMap.

Heat loss & insulation profile

A food & beverage plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: cookers & kettles, pasteurisers, CIP hot-water sets, dryers, steam lines, tanks, valves (surface/process temperatures around 70–200 °C). These surfaces lose energy to the air year-round; removable modular insulation cuts that loss, brings outer surfaces to ≤45 °C, and unclips for inspection.

very wide by site size; many bare low-temp surfaces (CIP, steam, pasteurisation) - often toward upper end.

Indicative recoverable energy

On an already-insulated site (pipes & valves in cladding / jackets), closing the remaining gaps, flanges and damaged sections and switching to removable covers indicatively recovers about 7,000 MWh/yr (≈ 1,400 t CO₂/yr) — scaled to this site's reported CO₂ within its sector. Bare or damaged surfaces recover several times more.

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Indicative, not a measurement. Conservative floor for an already-insulated plant; a TIPCHECK on-site audit gives a measured figure. Industry context: EiiF TIPCHECK — industrial insulation can save ~14 Mtoe/yr in EU, payback typically <2 years.

Safety & the no-regret first step

Bare hot surfaces here exceed the touch-safe limit (EN ISO 13732-1); insulation to ≤45 °C is a worker-safety and compliance win. And before electrification, fuel-switching or CCS, eliminating surface heat loss is the cheapest, fastest, lowest-risk step — audit the bare spots first, rip-and-replace later.

France: funding & obligation

Funding. Energy-savings certificate premiums for efficiency works; 6th period from 1 Jan 2026 (+35% obligation, 1050 TWhc/yr).

Obligation. Now CONSUMPTION-based: if avg annual final energy >2.75 GWh over 3 yrs, mandatory regulatory energy audit; first audit for newly-covered sites by 11 Oct 2026. (applies as a rule above the stated threshold — we don't hold this site's metered energy use).

Verified 2026; confirm current scheme terms before applying.

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