FIRESTONE POLYMERS - LAKE CHARLES FACILITY — United States

FIRESTONE POLYMERS - LAKE CHARLES FACILITY 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 100,754 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 0.02% 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-3193127.

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 100,754 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

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

Local climate

FIRESTONE POLYMERS - LAKE CHARLES FACILITY sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 30.2°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 an aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), with marine salt corrosion the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1300 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.00× 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

• Citgo Lake Charles Refinery · Refinery · 4,562,300 t CO₂
• Indorama Ventures Olefins, LLC, Carlyss, La · Petrochemical · 558,581 t CO₂
• Westlake Petrochemicals Corp., Sulphur #1,La · Petrochemical · 1,929,644 t CO₂
• LOUISIANA PIGMENT CO LP · Chemical Plant · 268,986 t CO₂
• WESTLAKE STYRENE LLC - STYRENE MONOMER PRODUCTION FACILITY · Chemical Plant · 161,722 t CO₂
• GRACE DAVISON · Chemical Plant · 151,073 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 30.18614, -93.33121. View on OpenStreetMap.

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