Vintage Wine Estates, Inc.

Vintage Wine Estates, Inc. is a food & beverage plant in United States with a reported capacity of 51,030,738 USD. It processes food, beverages or tobacco — typically with boilers, cookers and dryers. By capacity it ranks #8943 of 10,937 food & beverage plants tracked in United States. It emits about 4,154 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 968 cars.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-38494764.

En contexte: comment cette installation se compare

À 51,030,738 USD, Vintage Wine Estates, Inc. est autour de la médiane des food & beverage plant en United States (51,030,738 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.

What 4,154 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 food & beverage plants in United States

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

Local climate

Vintage Wine Estates, Inc. sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate zone (Köppen Csb), at 38.6°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 #8943 largest of 10937 food & beverage plants in United States by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Canard Vineyard, Llc · Food & Beverage · 4,154 t CO₂
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• Cabell Vineyard Llc · Food & Beverage · 4,154 t CO₂
• Joseph Cellars Winery · Food & Beverage · 4,154 t CO₂
• J Cellars Investments Llc · Food & Beverage · 4,154 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 38.57231, -122.55527. View on OpenStreetMap.

Heat loss & insulation profile

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.

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 600 MWh/yr (≈ 120 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.

United States: funding & obligation

Funding. Investment tax credit up to 30% of qualified investment incl. industrial decarbonization; open to small/medium/large manufacturers.

Obligation. None at federal level (voluntary). Some states have their own programs. (applies as a rule above the stated threshold — we don't hold this site's metered energy use).

Verified 2026; confirm current scheme terms before applying.

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