Frieslandcampina Kievit (Meppel)

Frieslandcampina Kievit (Meppel) is a food & beverage plant in Netherlands with a reported capacity of 970,645,341 USD. It processes food, beverages or tobacco — typically with boilers, cookers and dryers. By capacity it ranks #40 of 67 food & beverage plants tracked in Netherlands. It emits about 46,589 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 10,860 cars.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-38480719.

Bağlamda: bu tesis nasıl karşılaştırılır

970,645,341 USD'de, Frieslandcampina Kievit (Meppel) Netherlands'daki food & beverage plant'lerin medyanı yaklaşık 970,645,341 USD'dir. Alt sektör: food-beverage-tobacco. food & beverage plant olarak, temel endüstriyel işlemleri için yoğun proses ısısı (tipik olarak 80–200°C) gerektirir — kazanlar, fırınlar veya doğrudan yanma ile sağlanması gereken ısı, ve izolasyon yapılmamış kaplar ve boruların kayıpları harcanan yakıtı temsil eder. Modüler çıkarılabilir yalıtım bu kayıpları %80–96 oranında azaltabilir, yüzeyleri ≤45°C'ye soğutabilir, geri ödeme süresi genellikle 2 yıldan azdır. Gıda ve içecek fabrikaları, sürekli çalışan kazanlar, pişiriciler, pastörizatörler ve kurutucular kullanır; izolasyon yapılmamış borulardan ve kaplardan ısı kaybı doğrudan çıktı ve verimliliği azaltır.

Kapasite ve CO₂ yoğunluğu karşılaştırması Climate TRACE endüstriyel tesis verilerinden hesaplanmıştır; sektör rolü mühendislik referansına dayanmaktadır.

What 46,589 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's reported annual CO₂e in the everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:

Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest food & beverage plants in Netherlands

Reported capacity (USD), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).

Local climate

Frieslandcampina Kievit (Meppel) sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 52.7°N in the northern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby sites

The #40 largest of 67 food & beverage plants in Netherlands by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Rouveen Kaasspecialiteiten · Food & Beverage · 46,589 t CO₂
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• Abbott Laboratories B.V. · Food & Beverage · 46,589 t CO₂
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• Doc Kaas (Zuivelpark) · Food & Beverage · 46,589 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 52.69181, 6.17409. View on OpenStreetMap.

Heat loss & insulation profile

A food & beverage plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: cookers & kettles, pasteurisers, CIP hot-water sets, dryers, steam lines, tanks, valves (surface/process temperatures around 70–200 °C). These surfaces lose energy to the air year-round; removable modular insulation cuts that loss, brings outer surfaces to ≤45 °C, and unclips for inspection.

very wide by site size; many bare low-temp surfaces (CIP, steam, pasteurisation) - often toward upper end.

Indicative recoverable energy

On an already-insulated site (pipes & valves in cladding / jackets), closing the remaining gaps, flanges and damaged sections and switching to removable covers indicatively recovers about 7,000 MWh/yr (≈ 1,400 t CO₂/yr) — scaled to this site's reported CO₂ within its sector. Bare or damaged surfaces recover several times more.

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Indicative, not a measurement. Conservative floor for an already-insulated plant; a TIPCHECK on-site audit gives a measured figure. Industry context: EiiF TIPCHECK — industrial insulation can save ~14 Mtoe/yr in EU, payback typically <2 years.

Safety & the no-regret first step

Bare hot surfaces here exceed the touch-safe limit (EN ISO 13732-1); insulation to ≤45 °C is a worker-safety and compliance win. And before electrification, fuel-switching or CCS, eliminating surface heat loss is the cheapest, fastest, lowest-risk step — audit the bare spots first, rip-and-replace later.

Netherlands: funding & obligation

Funding. Deduct 40% of qualifying Energy-List investment from taxable profit; 2026 budget EUR 460M; min EUR 2,500/asset.

Obligation. Large enterprises (>250 staff or >EUR 50M turnover / >EUR 43M balance) must audit every 4 yrs. (applies as a rule above the stated threshold — we don't hold this site's metered energy use).

Verified 2026; confirm current scheme terms before applying.

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