St. Nicolas aluminium plant — Greece

St. Nicolas aluminium plant is an aluminium smelter in Greece. Its listed capacity is 190,000 t of alumina/aluminum. Aluminium smelters use large electric currents to refine alumina into molten aluminium above 900°C, and the hot metal must flow through crucibles and casting equipment. It is operated by Aluminium de Grèce SA. By capacity it ranks #1 among 2 aluminium smelters in Greece. It emits about 410,921 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 3.7% of the CO₂e from the 17 facilities in Greece that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3673067.

In context: how this facility compares

At 190,000 t of alumina/aluminum, St. Nicolas aluminium plant is around the median aluminium smelter in Greece (190,000 t of alumina/aluminum). Subsector: aluminum. As aluminium smelter, it requires high process heat (typically 600–900°C) for its core industrial operations, supplied by boilers, furnaces or direct combustion. Aluminium smelters use large electric currents to refine alumina into molten aluminium above 900°C, and the hot metal must flow through crucibles and casting equipment.

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

What 410,921 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 aluminium smelters in Greece

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

Operator

Operated by Aluminium de Grèce SA.

Local climate

St. Nicolas aluminium plant sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate zone (Köppen Csa), at 38.4°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 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 1358 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.04× 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 #1 largest of 2 aluminium smelters in Greece by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• Central Greece Region · Aluminium Smelter · 12,315 t CO₂
• Motor Oil Hellas Corinth Refinery · Refinery · 2,450,025 t CO₂
• Pio Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 741,582 t CO₂
• Magoula Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 533,322 t CO₂
• Hellenic Petroleum Elefsina Refinery · Refinery · 1,094,934 t CO₂
• ELVALHALCOR S.A. - ALUMINIUM ROLLING DIVISION · Metals Plant · 114,000 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 38.36221, 22.68981. View on OpenStreetMap.

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