Cement Plant in Cuba. Approximate location 21.98834, -79.30691.
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Taguasco Cement Plant is a cement plant in Cuba with a reported capacity of 150,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Corporación de Cementos Cubanos. By capacity it ranks #4 of 4 cement plants tracked in Cuba. It emits about 90,866 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 21,181 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 68% above the median cement plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-32438300.
Con 150,000 t of cement, Taguasco Cement Plant è al di sotto di la mediana di cement plant in Cuba (1,000,000 t of cement). Il suo CO₂ per unità di capacità è approssimativamente 66% al di sopra 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.
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 (t of cement), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Corporación de Cementos Cubanos. All facilities by this operator →
Taguasco Cement Plant sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 22.0°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #4 largest of 4 cement plants in Cuba by reported capacity.
Coordinates 21.98834, -79.30691. View on OpenStreetMap.
A cement plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: rotary kiln shell, preheater tower, tertiary air duct & kiln hood, clinker-cooler ducts, valves (surface/process temperatures around 200–1,000 °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.
60% of cement CO2 is process calcination - NOT insulation-addressable; energy here is the fuel side only.
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 8,000 MWh/yr (≈ 2,700 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.
Domestic energy-efficiency grants are limited here; industrial decarbonisation is mainly funded externally:
Routed via national development banks / accredited entities — not a direct factory grant. Verified 2026.
Taguasco Cement Plant is a cement plant in Cuba. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement.
Taguasco Cement Plant has a reported capacity of 150,000 t of cement.
Taguasco Cement Plant emits about 90,866 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 21,181 cars. That ranks #6 among tracked facilities in Cuba.
Taguasco Cement Plant is in Cuba, near coordinates 21.98834, -79.30691.
Taguasco Cement Plant is operated by Corporación de Cementos Cubanos.
