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 [...]
A representative of Ciment Català participated a few days ago at Fundación Canal de Madrid in the IECA Forum, organized by the Spanish Institute of Cement and its Applications, which in this edition was held under the motto, "The role of cement and concrete in sustainable water management". The event, which brought together the main [...]
In line with its commitment to the economic and social development of the territory, Ciment Català participated in the meeting held by the Commission for the Expansion of Barcelona Airport on October 23. The working group presented its conclusions at this meeting, after more than a year of meetings of 29 public commissions, with a [...]
Last October 3, representatives of the General Directorate of Industry of the Generalitat and Ciment Català met to discuss the current situation of the cement sector in Catalonia and its main concerns, largely related to the decarbonisation of the sector and its Roadmap 2050 to achieve it. On behalf of the Generalitat, the general director [...]
For the 6th consecutive month, September has recorded negative cement consumption in Catalonia and a volume of only 156 thousand tons. This data confirms the year-on-year decrease, which now places the market at 2.21 million tons and a reduction of 3.8% compared to the previous 12 months. The accumulated statistics highlight the lack of investment [...]