Piacenza Cement Plant

Piacenza Cement Plant is a cement plant in Italy with a reported capacity of 1,180,592 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Industria Cementi Giovanni Rossi SpA. By capacity it ranks #15 of 29 cement plants tracked in Italy. It emits about 409,719 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 95,506 cars.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-32438781.

Nel contesto: come si confronta questo impianto

Con 1,180,592 t of cement, Piacenza Cement Plant è attorno a la mediana di cement plant in Italy (1,180,592 t of cement). 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 409,719 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 Italy

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

Operator

Operated by Industria Cementi Giovanni Rossi SpA. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Piacenza Cement Plant sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 45.0°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 #15 largest of 29 cement plants in Italy by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Finarvedi Cremona steel plant · Steel Plant · 1,133,048 t CO₂
• Barilla G. E R. Fratelli Società Per Azioni Stabilimento Di Cremona · Food & Beverage · 97,128 t CO₂
• Vernasca Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 302,423 t CO₂
• Zoogamma Spa Upcr · Food & Beverage · 97,128 t CO₂
• Laboratorio Sartoriale Di Uberti Max · Textiles · 7,015 t CO₂
• Manifattura Cristina · Textiles · 7,015 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 45.04878, 9.71877. View on OpenStreetMap.

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