Post Foods — United States
Food & Beverage in United States. Approximate location 42.30956, -85.16164.
Food & BeverageUnited StatesCO₂ estimate (modelled)
Post Foods is a food & beverage plant in United States. Its listed capacity is 406,111,716 USD. Food & beverage plants use boilers, cookers, pasteurisers and dryers that run continuously. By capacity it ranks #217 among 391 food & beverage plants in United States. It emits about 33,001 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-38481501.
Data status
Known source data
Calculated from the dataset
Not available
Source data, measured cross-checks and calculated values are kept separate. No confidence percentage is invented.
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In context: how this facility compares
At 406,111,716 USD, Post Foods is around 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 33,001 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.
Carbon cost and Scope 1 emissions
At its reported 33k t CO₂e/yr (Scope 1), Post Foods carries no domestic carbon price, and its products are not CBAM-covered goods, so there is no border-carbon liability. At the EU ETS reference price (€75/t) the emissions carry an indicative carbon value of €2.5M/yr.
Carbon price: EU CBAM €75/t · EU ETS €85/t, September 10, 2026, refreshed live via Carbon Hub. CO₂: Climate TRACE. Indicative carbon value, not the cash bill — free allocation applies; not compliance advice.
Parent company
Post Holdings Inc US EPA GHGRP
Parent company per US EPA GHGRP; the operator itself is not stated in the source dataset.
Local climate
Post Foods sits in a hot-summer humid continental climate zone (Köppen Dfa), at 42.3°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 thermal cycling the leading environmental stress.
In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1412 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
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Location
Coordinates 42.30956, -85.16164. View on OpenStreetMap.
Frequently asked questions
What type of facility is Post Foods?
Post Foods is a food & beverage plant in United States. Food & beverage plants use boilers, cookers, pasteurisers and dryers that run continuously.
How much CO₂ does Post Foods emit?
The page uses about 33,001 t CO₂e/year from the open dataset It ranks #1296 among facilities in United States by estimated CO₂.
Where is Post Foods located?
Post Foods is in United States at approximately 42.30956, -85.16164.