Matera Cement Plant — Italy

Matera Cement Plant is a cement plant in Italy. Its listed capacity is 1,320,000 t of cement. Cement plants heat limestone to 1,400°C in rotary kilns — one of the hottest industrial processes — and must control temperature precisely across the entire kiln length. It is operated by Heidelberg Materials Italia Cementi SpA. By capacity it ranks #6 among 16 cement plants in Italy. It emits about 618,449 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 1.6% of the CO₂e from the 70 facilities in Italy that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 29% above the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1897286.

In context: how this facility compares

At 1,320,000 t of cement, Matera Cement Plant is around the median cement plant in Italy (1,300,000 t of cement). Subsector: cement. As cement plant, it requires high process heat (typically 800–1400°C) for its core industrial operations, supplied by boilers, furnaces or direct combustion. Cement plants heat limestone to 1,400°C in rotary kilns — one of the hottest industrial processes — and must control temperature precisely across the entire kiln length.

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

What 618,449 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.

Capacity vs largest cement plants in Italy

Listed capacity (t of cement), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).

Operator

Operated by Heidelberg Materials Italia Cementi SpA. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Matera Cement Plant sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate zone (Köppen Csa), at 40.7°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 1340 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.03× 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

The #6 largest of 16 cement plants in Italy by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• ENI Taranto Oil Refinery · Refinery · 867,816 t CO₂
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• Barletta Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 412,471 t CO₂
• Calce Molignini Bio Productions Srl · Lime Plant
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Location

Coordinates 40.67163, 16.66437. View on OpenStreetMap.

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