Food & Beverage in Germany. Approximate location 48.6988, 10.90866.
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Südzucker Ag, Werk Rain is a food & beverage plant in Germany with a reported capacity of 4,633,146,126 USD. It processes food, beverages or tobacco — typically with boilers, cookers and dryers. By capacity it ranks #4 of 55 food & beverage plants tracked in Germany. It emits about 151,340 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 35,277 cars.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-38480497.
À 4,633,146,126 USD, Südzucker Ag, Werk Rain est autour de la médiane des food & beverage plant en Germany (4,633,146,126 USD). Sous-secteur: food-beverage-tobacco. Comme food & beverage plant, elle nécessite une chaleur de procédé intensive (typiquement 80–200°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 alimentaires et de boissons utilisent des chaudières, cuiseurs, pasteurisateurs et sécheurs qui fonctionnent en continu; la perte de chaleur par les tuyauteries et récipients non isolés réduit directement le débit et l'efficacité.
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.
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 (USD), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Südzucker Ag, Werk Rain sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 48.7°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #4 largest of 55 food & beverage plants in Germany by reported capacity.
Coordinates 48.6988, 10.90866. View on OpenStreetMap.
A food & beverage plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: cookers & kettles, pasteurisers, CIP hot-water sets, dryers, steam lines, tanks, valves (surface/process temperatures around 70–200 °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.
very wide by site size; many bare low-temp surfaces (CIP, steam, pasteurisation) - often toward upper end.
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 7,000 MWh/yr (≈ 1,400 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.
Funding. Grant 20-60% depending on module and company size; Modul 4 = energy/resource optimization of plants & processes (insulation fits). Foerderwettbewerb round budget ~EUR 60M.
Obligation. Mandatory energy audit if avg final energy 2.77-23.6 GWh/yr; certified EnMS/EMS if >23.6 GWh/yr; implementation plans for economically viable measures within 3 months of audit. (applies as a rule above the stated threshold — we don't hold this site's metered energy use).
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Südzucker Ag, Werk Rain is a food & beverage plant in Germany. It processes food, beverages or tobacco — typically with boilers, cookers and dryers.
Südzucker Ag, Werk Rain has a reported capacity of 4,633,146,126 USD.
Südzucker Ag, Werk Rain emits about 151,340 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 35,277 cars. That ranks #86 among tracked facilities in Germany.
Südzucker Ag, Werk Rain is in Germany, near coordinates 48.6988, 10.90866.
