The new regulations and legislation in the matter of waste planned by the administrations, such as the moratorium on new procedures until the preparation of the Plan for the closure of incinerators, or the draft law on prevention and management of waste, make the main cement manufacturers a more than likely relocation of the sector. [...]
Cement consumption in Catalonia during the month of May has registered a growth of 0.4%. With this figure, the market variation in the last year stands at -8.5% and a volume of 2.10 million tons. Cement production remains practically identical to that of May 2023, but has accumulated a drop of 6.6% in the last [...]
The Aggregate Report corresponding to 2023 of the Voluntary Agreement signed between the Department of Territory and Sustainability of the Generalitat and Ciment Català highlights, once again, the good environmental conduct of Catalan factories. The draft of the Report, which will be approved soon, confirms that, as in previous years, 100% achievement has been achieved in [...]
The decarbonization of the industrial sector is, currently, a matter of great relevance, since the industry is responsible for a large part of the world's energy consumption and CO2 emissions. This process presents significant challenges, but also opens opportunities to implement new technologies and reduce environmental impact. In this sense, the commitment of the Catalan [...]
After 10 consecutive months of decline (from April 2023 to January 2024), the Catalan cement market has stopped its fall this past February. The 196 thousand tons consumed represent an increase of 5.9% over the same month in 2023, but they only minimally mitigate the contraction of the market in the last year, which has [...]
The Cambra de Contractistes d'Obres de Catalunya (CCOC) and Ciment Català, represented respectively by the president Lluís Moreno Lasalle and by the director Ana Salgado, held a work session on March 7, mainly aimed at analysing the current situation of the construction sector in Catalonia. The sectoral situation is strongly marked by the lack of [...]
Catalonia's cement consumption in the month of November has been reduced by 9.0% compared to November 2022, and now has 8 consecutive months of decline. With this figure, the accumulated consumption of 2023 is reduced by 7.9%, standing at 1.99 million tons, which leads to the variation in the moving year being -7.4% and a [...]
Between November 28 and December 1, Ciment Català integrated, once again, the Catalan delegation that participated in the Santiago Circular Economy Hotspot 2023, together with the Department of Climate Action and the Waste Agency of Catalonia . The international event aims to publicize the central axes of the circular economy that each country has been [...]
The commitment to achieving a zero-carbon footprint of the Catalan cement industry remains inalienable. Along these lines, it will be necessary to advance the Roadmap to achieve climate neutrality, developed in 2021, to adapt it both to the improvements already achieved by the productive facilities of the sector and to update it in accordance with [...]
Faithful to its commitment to service to the community, Ciment Català has edited and published a new digital version in the Catalan language of the work “De Architectura”, by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, architect, engineer and writer from the 1st century BC, improving some aspects that they were pending in the previous one. This treatise is [...]