Ciment Català forecasts a stagnation in infrastructure investments due to the extension of public administrations' budgets. The boost in consumption achieved during December, with a growth of 15.4% compared to 2023, has allowed the cement market in Catalonia to close 2024 at a flat level for the year (+0.9%). To put the current size into [...]
The Board of Directors of Ciment Català, chaired by Salvador Fernández Capo, has appointed Albert Avellaneda Bargués (Barcelona, 1966) as the new director of the organization, a role he has started this week. Until now, Albert Avellaneda has served as the head of the Best Available Techniques (BAT) section within the Directorate-General for Climate Change [...]
El consumo de cemento en Cataluña durante el mes de noviembre fue de 178 mil toneladas, lo que supone una caída del 9,1% respecto al mismo mes de 2023. Esta cifra devuelve el consumo interanual a una tasa negativa, situándolo ahora en 2,1 millones de toneladas y marcando un retroceso del 2,5%. Mejor han funcionado [...]
The Board of Directors of Ciment Català met with the new Director General of Climate Change and Environmental Quality of the Generalitat, Sonsoles Letang, to advance the establishment of the objectives of the IV Voluntary Agreement. This agreement will primarily aim to promote measures to achieve climate neutrality and contribute to the fight against global warming. [...]
The president of Ciment Català, Salvador Fernández Capo, emphasizes the significant progress made in reducing the cement sector's carbon footprint and calls for increased support from administrations to promote the use of sustainable materials in construction. The event, Advances in the Decarbonization of Construction Materials: Cement and Concrete, held at the Escola de Camins of [...]
The statistics gathered by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, and Tourism for October position this month as the second best of 2024 so far in terms of cement consumption in Catalonia. The 195,000 tons used represent a 7.1% increase compared to the same month in 2023 and place the annual consumption (summing the last 12 [...]
Cement consumption in Catalonia in September recorded a slight drop of 0.6%, bringing the year-on-year rate to -4.3% and a volume of 2.1 million tons. These figures confirm the trend towards market stabilization in Catalonia, which, since March, has hovered around this level of consumption, halting a decline that began in November 2022, when annual [...]
Cement consumption in Catalonia in August experienced a new decline of 10.1%, bringing the year-on-year rate to a decrease of 5.9%, with a volume of only 2.1 million tons. Production increased by 10.1% in August, but this was insufficient to reverse the negative result for the entire year, standing at -2.2% with a volume of [...]
The General Directorate of Climate Change and Environmental Quality of the Generalitat (Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Fishing, and Food) and Ciment Català approved, in their working session on September 12, the Aggregate Report for 2023 of the Voluntary Agreement for resource efficiency and transition to a circular economy signed between the two entities. Among the [...]
The Generalitat’s Industrial Observatory has been producing the Annual Report on Industry in Catalonia for over 30 years. The study includes a detailed analysis of the country’s 21 most important industrial sectors. In the study for 2023, Ciment Català has collaborated on the chapter Building materials. The Director of Enterprise and Labor, Roger Torrent, presided over [...]