Cement Plant in Switzerland. Approximate location 47.52098, 8.23901.
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Wurenlingen Cement Plant is a cement plant in Switzerland with a reported capacity of 900,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Holcim (Schweiz) AG. By capacity it ranks #1 of 6 cement plants tracked in Switzerland. It emits about 197,632 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 46,068 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 39% below the median cement plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-32437354.
Przy 900,000 t of cement, Wurenlingen Cement Plant jest około medianę cement plant w Switzerland (800,000 t of cement). Jego CO₂ na jednostkę pojemności wynosi w przybliżeniu 29% poniżej medianę cement plant. Podsektor: cement. Jako cement plant, wymaga intensywnego ciepła procesowego (typowo 800–1400°C) do swoich głównych operacji przemysłowych — ciepła, które musi być dostarczane przez kotły, piece lub spalanie bezpośrednie, a straty przez nieisolowane zbiorniki i rury stanowią zmarnowane paliwo. Modułowa izolacja demontowalna może zmniejszyć te straty o 80–96%, chłodząc powierzchnie do ≤45°C, z zwrotem inwestycji często poniżej 2 lat. Cementownie ogrzewają wapień do 1.400°C w piecach obracających się — jeden z najgorętszych procesów przemysłowych — i muszą precyzyjnie kontrolować temperaturę na całej długości pieca.
Porównanie pojemności i intensywności CO₂ obliczane na podstawie danych instalacji przemysłowych Climate TRACE; rola sektora oparta na odniesieniau inżynierskim.
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 Holcim (Schweiz) AG. All facilities by this operator →
Wurenlingen Cement Plant sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 47.5°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #1 largest of 6 cement plants in Switzerland by reported capacity.
Coordinates 47.52098, 8.23901. 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 8,200 MWh/yr (≈ 2,800 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.
Wurenlingen Cement Plant is a cement plant in Switzerland. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement.
Wurenlingen Cement Plant has a reported capacity of 900,000 t of cement.
Wurenlingen Cement Plant emits about 197,632 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 46,068 cars. That ranks #6 among tracked facilities in Switzerland.
Wurenlingen Cement Plant is in Switzerland, near coordinates 47.52098, 8.23901.
Wurenlingen Cement Plant is operated by Holcim (Schweiz) AG.
