La Calera Cement Plant

La Calera Cement Plant is a cement plant in Chile with a reported capacity of 1,100,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Melon SA. By capacity it ranks #1 of 5 cement plants tracked in Chile. It emits about 380,474 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 88,689 cars.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-32437360.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 1,100,000 t of cement, La Calera Cement Plant está muy por encima de la mediana de cement plant en Chile (750,000 t of cement). Su CO₂ por unidad de capacidad es aproximadamente 33% por encima de la mediana de cement plant. 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 380,474 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 Chile

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

Operator

Operated by Melon SA. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

La Calera Cement Plant sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate zone (Köppen Csb), at 32.8°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 5 cement plants in Chile by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• ENAP Concon Refinery · Refinery · 1,150,668 t CO₂
• Cerro Blanco Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 273,974 t CO₂
• AZA Colina steel plant · Steel Plant · 25,308 t CO₂
• New Commerce Ltda · Textiles · 547 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates -32.79061, -71.1983. View on OpenStreetMap.

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