Curico Cement Plant

Curico Cement Plant is a cement plant in Chile with a reported capacity of 500,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Cementos Bio Bio SA. By capacity it ranks #4 of 5 cement plants tracked in Chile. It emits about 122,511 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 28,557 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 32% below the median cement plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1895367.

Nel contesto: come si confronta questo impianto

Con 500,000 t of cement, Curico Cement Plant è al di sotto di la mediana di cement plant in Chile (750,000 t of cement). Il suo CO₂ per unità di capacità è approssimativamente 6% al di sotto di la mediana di cement plant. Sottosettore: cement. Come cement plant, richiede calore di processo intenso (tipicamente 800–1400°C) per le sue operazioni industriali essenziali — calore che deve essere fornito da caldaie, forni o combustione diretta, e le perdite attraverso recipienti e tubazioni non isolati rappresentano carburante sprecato. L'isolamento modulare removibile può ridurre queste perdite dell'80–96%, raffreddando superfici a ≤45°C, con payback spesso inferiore a 2 anni. Le cementerie riscaldano il calcare a 1.400°C in forni rotativi — uno dei processi industriali più caldi — e devono controllare la temperatura con precisione lungo l'intera lunghezza del forno.

Confronto di capacità e intensità di CO₂ calcolato dai dati delle strutture industriali Climate TRACE; ruolo del settore basato su riferimento ingegneristico.

What 122,511 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 Chile

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

Operator

Operated by Cementos Bio Bio SA. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Curico Cement Plant sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate zone (Köppen Csb), at 34.9°S in the southern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby sites

The #4 largest of 5 cement plants in Chile by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Celulosa Arauco y Constitución S.A. - Licancel Pulp Mill · Pulp & Paper Mill · 39,075 t CO₂
• Celulosa Arauco y Constitución S.A. - Constitución Pulp Mill · Pulp & Paper Mill · 365,522 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates -34.86629, -71.14043. View on OpenStreetMap.

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