Cargill Salt Saint Clair — United States

Cargill Salt Saint Clair is a food & beverage plant in United States. Its listed capacity is 859,086,741 USD. Food & beverage plants use boilers, cookers, pasteurisers and dryers that run continuously. By capacity it ranks #70 among 391 food & beverage plants in United States. It emits about 69,809 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 0.01% of the CO₂e from the 1,910 facilities in United States that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-38485639.

Measured and modelled emissions reconciliation

This facility is linked to GHGRP ID 1006063 for reporting year 2023. The official source reports 97,911 t CO2; Climate TRACE models 69,809 t CO2e.

Limits of this comparison

• Measured CO2 and modelled CO2e are not identical accounting constructs.
• The crosswalk is an entity match, not proof that reporting boundaries are identical.
• The reporting year is shown explicitly and values are not extrapolated to the current year.

Official GHGRP source · Download this reconciliation: CSV · JSON with provenance.

In context: how this facility compares

At 859,086,741 USD, Cargill Salt Saint Clair is well above the median food & beverage plant in United States (452,469,926 USD). Subsector: food-beverage-tobacco. As food & beverage plant, it requires high process heat (typically 80–200°C) for its core industrial operations, supplied by boilers, furnaces or direct combustion. Food & beverage plants use boilers, cookers, pasteurisers and dryers that run continuously.

Capacity & CO₂-intensity comparison computed from Climate TRACE industrial facilities data; sector role based on engineering reference.

What 69,809 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's estimated annual CO₂e (Climate TRACE, modelled) in everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:

Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.

Parent company

Cargill Inc US EPA GHGRP
Parent company per US EPA GHGRP; the operator itself is not stated in the source dataset.

Local climate

Cargill Salt Saint Clair sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate zone (Köppen Dfb), at 42.8°N in the northern hemisphere.

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

Site climate & environmental severity

This site sits in a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with thermal cycling the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1414 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.09× the loss at a 20 °C reference. Reference-surface calculation at a 150 °C surface from WorldClim climate normals (ASTM C680 / ISO 12241) — an indicative per-climate comparison, not a measurement of this site’s specific equipment. Open method dataset: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20787408 (CC BY 4.0).

Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.

How it compares & nearby sites

Nearby industrial sites

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• Nova Chemicals Corp. Corunna, Sarnia,Ontario · Petrochemical · 2,099,079 t CO₂
• Suncor Sarnia Refinery · Refinery · 848,610 t CO₂
• Imperial Oil Sarnia Refinery · Refinery · 1,625,111 t CO₂
• Imperial Oil Products & Chemicals , Sarnia,Ontario · Petrochemical · 438,077 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 42.8184, -82.4858. View on OpenStreetMap.

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