Cementos Artigas Minas Plant

Cementos Artigas Minas Plant is a cement plant in Uruguay with a reported capacity of 650,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Cementos Artigas SA. By capacity it ranks #1 of 3 cement plants tracked in Uruguay. It emits about 163,678 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 38,153 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 30% below the median cement plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-42547278.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 650,000 t of cement, Cementos Artigas Minas Plant está muy por encima de la mediana de cement plant en Uruguay (240,000 t of cement). Subsector: cement. Como cement plant, requiere calor de proceso intenso (típicamente 800–1400°C) para sus operaciones industriales centrales — calor que debe ser suministrado por calderas, hornos o combustión directa, y las pérdidas a través de recipientes y tuberías sin aislar representan combustible desperdiciado. El aislamiento modular desmontable puede reducir esas pérdidas en un 80–96%, enfriando superficies a ≤45°C, con amortización a menudo inferior a 2 años. Las plantas de cemento calientan piedra caliza a 1.400°C en hornos rotativos — uno de los procesos industriales más calientes — y deben controlar la temperatura con precisión en toda la longitud del horno.

Comparación de capacidad e intensidad de CO₂ calculada a partir de datos de instalaciones industriales de Climate TRACE; papel del sector basado en referencia de ingeniería.

What 163,678 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 cement plants in Uruguay

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

Operator

Operated by Cementos Artigas SA. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Cementos Artigas Minas Plant sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 34.4°S in the southern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

The #1 largest of 3 cement plants in Uruguay by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• ANCAP Minas Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 60,075 t CO₂
• CEPP Celulosa y Energía Punta Pereira S.A. Montes del Plata - Joint venture Stora Enso y Celulosa Arauco y Constitución Pulp Mill · Pulp & Paper Mill · 405,318 t CO₂
• ANCAP La Teja Montevideo Refinery · Refinery · 352,625 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates -34.37842, -55.28047. View on OpenStreetMap.

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