Wuhu Southern Cement Co. Cement Plant 1 — China

Wuhu Southern Cement Co. Cement Plant 1 is a cement plant in China. Its listed capacity is 1,080,000 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 Wuhu Nanfang Cement Co Ltd. By capacity it ranks #145 among 174 cement plants in China. It emits about 360,263 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 0.01% of the CO₂e from the 1,485 facilities in China that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 8% below the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1896152.

In context: how this facility compares

At 1,080,000 t of cement, Wuhu Southern Cement Co. Cement Plant 1 is below the median cement plant in China (1,870,000 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 360,263 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 China

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

Operator

Operated by Wuhu Nanfang Cement Co Ltd. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Wuhu Southern Cement Co. Cement Plant 1 sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 31.1°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 1343 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 #145 largest of 174 cement plants in China by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• Wuhu Southern Cement Co. Cement Plant 2 · Cement Plant · 696,679 t CO₂
• Wuhu Ruixin Cement Co. Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 139,427 t CO₂
• Anhui Digang Conch Cement Co Ltd Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 1,166,524 t CO₂
• Wuhu Fuxin Iron and Steel Co Ltd · Steel Plant · 3,037,186 t CO₂
• Tongling Xuanli Special Steel Co Ltd · Steel Plant · 4,399,308 t CO₂
• Wuhu Conch Cement Co Ltd Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 1,958,234 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 31.1476, 118.0076. View on OpenStreetMap.

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