Cement Plant in Ecuador. Approximate location -2.17912, -80.04192.
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Guayaquil Cement Plant is a cement plant in Ecuador with a reported capacity of 5,400,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Holcim (Ecuador) SA. By capacity it ranks #1 of 4 cement plants tracked in Ecuador. It emits about 2,173,984 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 506,756 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 12% above the median cement plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1896668.
Con 5,400,000 t of cement, Guayaquil Cement Plant está muy por encima de la mediana de cement plant en Ecuador (1,400,000 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.
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.
Reported capacity (t of cement), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Holcim (Ecuador) SA. All facilities by this operator →
Guayaquil Cement Plant sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 2.2°S in the southern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #1 largest of 4 cement plants in Ecuador by reported capacity.
Coordinates -2.17912, -80.04192. View on OpenStreetMap.
A cement plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: rotary kiln shell, preheater tower, tertiary air duct & kiln hood, clinker-cooler ducts, valves (surface/process temperatures around 200–1,000 °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.
60% of cement CO2 is process calcination - NOT insulation-addressable; energy here is the fuel side only.
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 19,000 MWh/yr (≈ 6,500 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.
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.
Domestic energy-efficiency grants are limited here; industrial decarbonisation is mainly funded externally:
Routed via national development banks / accredited entities — not a direct factory grant. Verified 2026.
Guayaquil Cement Plant is a cement plant in Ecuador. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement.
Guayaquil Cement Plant has a reported capacity of 5,400,000 t of cement.
Guayaquil Cement Plant emits about 2,173,984 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 506,756 cars. That ranks #1 among tracked facilities in Ecuador.
Guayaquil Cement Plant is in Ecuador, near coordinates -2.17912, -80.04192.
Guayaquil Cement Plant is operated by Holcim (Ecuador) SA.
