Cement Plant in Cuba. Approximate location 19.99931, -75.8543.
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Santiago de Cuba Cement Plant is a cement plant in Cuba with a reported capacity of 600,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Corporación de Cementos Cubanos. By capacity it ranks #3 of 4 cement plants tracked in Cuba. It emits about 218,531 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 50,940 cars.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-32438299.
Con 600,000 t of cement, Santiago de Cuba Cement Plant está por debajo de la mediana de cement plant en Cuba (1,000,000 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 Corporación de Cementos Cubanos. All facilities by this operator →
Santiago de Cuba Cement Plant sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 20.0°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #3 largest of 4 cement plants in Cuba by reported capacity.
Coordinates 19.99931, -75.8543. 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 8,400 MWh/yr (≈ 2,800 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.
Santiago de Cuba Cement Plant is a cement plant in Cuba. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement.
Santiago de Cuba Cement Plant has a reported capacity of 600,000 t of cement.
Santiago de Cuba Cement Plant emits about 218,531 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 50,940 cars. That ranks #4 among tracked facilities in Cuba.
Santiago de Cuba Cement Plant is in Cuba, near coordinates 19.99931, -75.8543.
Santiago de Cuba Cement Plant is operated by Corporación de Cementos Cubanos.
