Cleveland-Cliffs Weirton LLC — United States

Cleveland-Cliffs Weirton LLC is a manufacturing plant in United States. Heavy manufacturing facilities run a range of heat-intensive processes (rubber, plastics, pressure vessels); maintaining process heat efficiently is critical to cost control. It emits about 163,389 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 0.03% 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-3192918.

Measured and modelled emissions reconciliation

This facility is linked to GHGRP ID 1000260 for reporting year 2023. The official source reports 113,214 t CO2; Climate TRACE models 163,389 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

Subsector: other-manufacturing. As manufacturing plant, it requires high process heat (typically 100–600°C) for its core industrial operations, supplied by boilers, furnaces or direct combustion. Heavy manufacturing facilities run a range of heat-intensive processes (rubber, plastics, pressure vessels); maintaining process heat efficiently is critical to cost control.

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

What 163,389 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

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

Local climate

Cleveland-Cliffs Weirton LLC sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 40.4°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 moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1395 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.07× 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

• Cleveland-Cliffs Weirton LLC · Metals Plant · 152,269 t CO₂
• TITANIUM METALS CORP TORONTO PLANT · Metals Plant · 37,338 t CO₂
• Mississippi Lime Co. Weirton · Lime Plant
• Koppers Inc. Follansbee Plant · Chemical Plant · 1,175 t CO₂
• JSW Steel USA Ohio plant · Steel Plant · 226,867 t CO₂
• JSW Steel USA Ohio, Inc. · Metals Plant · 33,371 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 40.422, -80.5955. View on OpenStreetMap. Location shown at industrial-zone / municipality precision (shared source geocode).

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