Ningbo Sun-Step Shoes Co. Ltd.

Ningbo Sun-Step Shoes Co. Ltd. is a textile mill in China with a reported capacity of 319,572,427 USD. It spins, dyes and finishes textiles, leather or apparel using process steam. By capacity it ranks #1101 of 1,848 textile mills tracked in China. It emits about 6,976 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 1,626 cars.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-38473663.

En contexte: comment cette installation se compare

À 319,572,427 USD, Ningbo Sun-Step Shoes Co. Ltd. est autour de la médiane des textile mill en China (319,572,427 USD). Sous-secteur: textiles-leather-apparel. Comme textile mill, elle nécessite une chaleur de procédé intensive (typiquement 60–150°C) pour ses opérations industrielles essentielles — chaleur qui doit être fournie par des chaudières, fours ou combustion directe, et les pertes par les récipients et tuyauteries non isolés représentent du combustible gaspillé. L'isolation modulaire amovible peut réduire ces pertes de 80–96%, refroidissant les surfaces à ≤45°C, avec des délais d'amortissement souvent inférieurs à 2 ans. Les usines textiles utilisent de la vapeur de procédé pour la teinture, l'apprêtage et le séchage, nécessitant souvent un contrôle strict de la température pendant de longues durées de marche — la perte de chaleur continue érode les profits.

Comparaison de capacité et d'intensité de CO₂ calculée à partir des données des installations industrielles Climate TRACE; rôle du secteur basé sur la référence d'ingénierie.

What 6,976 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 textile mills in China

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

Local climate

Ningbo Sun-Step Shoes Co. Ltd. sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 29.9°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 #1101 largest of 1848 textile mills in China by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Ningbo Shunying Stationery Package Co Ltd · Textiles · 6,976 t CO₂
• Ningbo Veken Elite Imp&Exp Co.Ltd · Textiles · 6,976 t CO₂
• Ningbo Shi Beilun Jieteng Garments Co., Ltd · Textiles · 6,976 t CO₂
• Ningbo Shanhaitian Knitting Co., Ltd. · Textiles · 6,976 t CO₂
• Sinopec Zhenhai Petrochemical, Zhejiang, Zhenhai · Petrochemical · 3,761,677 t CO₂
• Sinopec Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Refinery · Refinery · 5,217,661 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 29.949, 121.71654. View on OpenStreetMap.

Heat loss & insulation profile

A textile mill like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: dyeing vessels, stenters/dryers, steam lines, hot-water & boiler house (surface/process temperatures around 80–200 °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.

effectively industrial laundries/dyeing - steam & hot water; 500-3000 MWh typical.

Indicative recoverable energy

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 2,900 MWh/yr (≈ 590 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.

Safety & the no-regret first step

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.

External climate finance your country can access

Domestic energy-efficiency grants are limited here; industrial decarbonisation is mainly funded externally:

• Japan JCM (Joint Crediting Mechanism) — Japan co-finances diffusion of decarbonising tech incl. INDUSTRIAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY in partner countries, in exchange for carbon credits. Channels: MOEJ model projects, ADB trust funds, NEDO demonstrations.
• UK International Climate Finance (ICF / ODA) — ~GBP 6bn ODA over 3 yrs; industrial-decarbonisation flows via Climate Investment Funds (CIF) - Clean Technology Fund.
• Green Climate Fund (GCF) + ADB / World Bank / UNIDO — Concessional finance & grants for industrial energy efficiency. E.g. GCF $200M ADB-led India Green Finance Facility; World Bank FP071 'Scaling Up Energy Efficiency for Industrial Enterprises in Vietnam'; ASEAN ACGF energy-efficiency revolving funds incl. SMEs.

CBAM. Exporters of cement, steel, aluminium, fertiliser, hydrogen and electricity to the EU face the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism — cutting embedded emissions (efficiency + insulation) lowers the levy.

Routed via national development banks / accredited entities — not a direct factory grant. Verified 2026.

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