Sighthill Biscuit Factory — United Kingdom
Food & Beverage in United Kingdom. Approximate location 55.9225, -3.29614.
Food & BeverageUnited KingdomCO₂ not individually reported
Sighthill Biscuit Factory is a food & beverage plant in United Kingdom. Food & beverage plants use boilers, cookers, pasteurisers and dryers that run continuously. No facility-measured CO₂ figure is available in the open dataset used here.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-38495300.
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.
Operating power plants within 50 km
- Kaimes Landfill Site · Waste · 2 MW · 8 km
- Broxburn · Storage · 20 MW · 10 km
- Oatslie Landfill Gas · Waste · 2 MW · 11 km
- Bonnyrigg · Waste · 2 MW · 11 km
- Millerhill AD (Waste AD) · Biomass · 2 MW · 13 km
PowerAtlas operating assets, ordered by great-circle distance from published coordinates.
In context: how this facility compares
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.
Carbon emissions
No facility-measured CO₂ is published for Sighthill Biscuit Factory; Climate TRACE provides only a food & beverage sector-level estimate, so a precise per-site figure, ranking or carbon cost would be misleading and is not shown.
CO₂: Climate TRACE sector-level estimate (not facility-measured).
Local climate
Sighthill Biscuit Factory sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 55.9°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 1434 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.10× 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
- North British Dist, Wheatfield Rd, Edinburgh · Food & Beverage
- ExxonMobil Chemical Co. , Mossmorran Fife · Petrochemical · 696,425 t CO₂
- INEOS Grangemouth Refinery · Refinery · 1,376,432 t CO₂
- INEOS , Grangemouth · Petrochemical · 1,253,878 t CO₂
- Cameronbridge Dist, Windygates, Leven · Food & Beverage · 111,279 t CO₂
- Scotbeef Ltd, Longleys Farm, Bridge Of Allan · Food & Beverage
Location
Coordinates 55.9225, -3.29614. View on OpenStreetMap.
Frequently asked questions
What type of facility is Sighthill Biscuit Factory?
Sighthill Biscuit Factory is a food & beverage plant in United Kingdom. Food & beverage plants use boilers, cookers, pasteurisers and dryers that run continuously.
How much CO₂ does Sighthill Biscuit Factory emit?
The open dataset used here does not include a facility-level CO₂ value for Sighthill Biscuit Factory.
Where is Sighthill Biscuit Factory located?
Sighthill Biscuit Factory is in United Kingdom at approximately 55.9225, -3.29614.