Schelklingen Cement Plant — Germany

Schelklingen Cement Plant is a cement plant in Germany. 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 AG. It emits about 514,890 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 0.46% of the CO₂e from the 118 facilities in Germany that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-32438321.

Measured and modelled emissions reconciliation

This facility is linked to EUTL ID DE_99 for reporting year 2023. The official source reports 459,994 t CO2; Climate TRACE models 514,890 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 EUTL source · Download this reconciliation: CSV · JSON with provenance.

In context: how this facility compares

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 514,890 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.

Operator

Operated by Heidelberg Materials AG. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Schelklingen Cement Plant sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 48.4°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 mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1420 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

• Allmendingen Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 340,704 t CO₂
• Mergelstetten Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 192,552 t CO₂
• Vion Leutkirch Nl. D. Vion Crailsheim Gmbh · Food & Beverage
• Dotternhausen Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 397,174 t CO₂
• Märker Kalk Gmbh · Lime Plant · 188,129 t CO₂
• Lech Stahlwerke Meitingen steel plant · Steel Plant · 83,737 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 48.36816, 9.73544. View on OpenStreetMap.

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