Lagerdorf Cement Plant

Lagerdorf Cement Plant is a cement plant in Germany with a reported capacity of 1,310,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Holcim (Deutschland) GmbH. By capacity it ranks #6 of 32 cement plants tracked in Germany. It emits about 175,856 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 40,992 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 63% below the median cement plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1896618.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 1,310,000 t of cement, Lagerdorf Cement Plant está muy por encima de la mediana de cement plant en Germany (1,000,000 t of cement). Su CO₂ por unidad de capacidad es aproximadamente 58% por debajo 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 175,856 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 Germany

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

Operator

Operated by Holcim (Deutschland) GmbH. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Lagerdorf Cement Plant sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 53.9°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 #6 largest of 32 cement plants in Germany by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Aluminium Oxid Stade GmbH (AOS) Alumina Refinery · Aluminium Smelter · 1,278,896 t CO₂
• Brunsbüttel · Chemical Plant · 3,524,921 t CO₂
• Stade District · Aluminium Smelter · 78,239 t CO₂
• ArcelorMittal Hamburg steel plant · Steel Plant · 822,412 t CO₂
• TRIMET Aluminium SE, Niederlassung Hamburg · Metals Plant · 223,000 t CO₂
• Hamburg aluminium plant · Aluminium Smelter · 144,904 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 53.87572, 9.58237. View on OpenStreetMap.

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