On Tuesday, 25 November, the conference “Decarbonization of the Cement Manufacturing Sector and Green Public Procurement” was held at Foment del Treball Nacional, organized by Ciment Català and IECA (Spanish Institute of Cement and its Applications). The event aimed at analyzing decarbonization targets and the solutions that will make it possible to move towards climate [...]
The new agenda for a zero-carbon footprint foresees a 42% reduction in emissions by 2030 and an 83% reduction by 2040 compared to 1990 levels, aiming to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 Catalan cement manufacturing companies have renewed and updated their Roadmap to achieve climate neutrality by increasing the targets initially set in the project’s [...]
On October 20, the Cement Manufacturers’ Association of Catalonia (Ciment Català), led by its president Salvador Fernández Capo, met with the Director General for Industry, Xavier Roca, to agree on the lines of action to advance decarbonization. These strategies are aligned with the carbon budgets presented by the Catalan Government as a tool to accelerate [...]
The Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya has recently approved and published the proposal for carbon budgets for the period 2026-2030 for Catalonia. The document sets out gross emissions of a maximum of 161.6 MtCO₂ equivalent over these five years, a figure that represents a 31% reduction compared to 1990. This average figure for all [...]
The Cement Manufacturers' Association of Catalonia (Ciment Català) and the Department of Territory, Housing and Ecological Transition of the Government of Catalonia signed on July 29 the IV Voluntary Agreement for the efficient use of resources and the transition towards a Circular and Climate-Neutral Economy in the Catalan cement industry. The objective of this new [...]
The course, focused on the challenges and opportunities of deploying carbon capture, transport, storage, and utilization (CCUS) technologies, took place on June 26 and 27 in Tarragona. It was organized by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) and the Spanish CO₂ Technology Platform (PTECO₂), bringing together a wide range of academic, institutional, and industrial stakeholders. [...]
The directors of the four production plants present their strategies to achieve the sector's climate neutrality goal Material and energy recovery, the use of hydrogen as fuel, energy efficiency, and CO2 capture and storage are the main levers Over one hundred experts from industry, academia, and public administrations take part in the technical summit on [...]
On June 19, in an event organized by the Government of Catalonia and Fundación CEMA, the directors of the four Catalan cement plants will take part in the conference Climate Neutrality in the Catalan Cement Industry, a key meeting to analyse the challenges and opportunities the sector faces in the context of the ecological transition. [...]
A delegation from Ciment Català, led by President Salvador Fernández Capo, held a working session with the Honourable Minister of Territory, Housing and Ecological Transition of the Generalitat, Sílvia Paneque, to address the industry's challenges in securing mineral resources for cement production. Aggregates are the main and essential raw material for the sector: the four [...]
Cement consumption in Catalonia during February dropped by 5.3% compared to the same month in 2024, bringing the annual variation to 0.9% and a total volume of 2.14 million tonnes. These figures confirm the trend of stagnation in the domestic market observed over the past year. At the same time, while production recorded a 10% [...]