The beginning of 2021 has not changed the negative trend that the Catalan cement industry is experiencing. The provisional data for the month of January show a new market drop (-4.7%) with a total of only 146 thousand tons used, the lowest monthly figure in the last 2 years if March and April of last [...]
The Association of Cement Manufacturers of Catalonia (Ciment Català) and the Department of Territory and Sustainability have extended the validity of the Voluntary Agreement to promote efficiency in the use of resources and the transition towards a circular economy of the sector until July 2025. With the extension of this Agreement makes visible the sustainability [...]
The final balance of 2020 has revealed the difficulties that the Catalan cement industry is going through, with a 10.6% drop in consumption in the domestic market for a total of 2 million tons, which historically corresponds to those consumed in the year 1968. This decrease can be attributed to the effects on the activity [...]
The energy transition, the commitment to the Circular Economy, the promotion of the construction of infrastructures and the need to strengthen the competitiveness of companies and the economy as a whole were the central issues of the telematic working session of last January 14 between the General Director of Energy, Industrial Safety and Mining Safety, [...]
The restrictions on economic activities derived from the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic have caused a new drop in the Production (-3.9%) and Consumption (-5.3%) volumes of cement in Catalonia. These negative figures are added to the accumulated losses since last March, and place the interannual index (the accumulated index of the last 12 [...]
Generalitat of Catalonia offers its support to the projects of the Catalan cement industry related to energy recovery. In a meeting between the Secretary for Business and Competitiveness, Joaquim Ferrer i Tamayo, and a delegation headed by the president of Ciment Català, Salvador Fernández Capo, both parties agreed on the diagnosis that the energy use [...]
As a relevant economic actor, also due to its experience in the construction sector, Ciment Català has intervened during the month of December in two of the sessions of the participatory process that the Generalitat has launched to prepare the Roadmap of the Economy Circular in Catalonia (FREC). The project should accelerate the transformation of [...]
The Autonomous Committee for the monitoring of the agreement on the sustainable use of resources in Catalonia (CASA Cataluña), in its telematic meeting on December 2, evaluated the situation of the recovery of waste in the cement factories of Catalonia that, therefore, refers to energy substitution, it exceeded 40% during 2019. In this sense, it [...]
The Advisory Council of Arid of Catalonia foresees difficulties in the recovery of the activity rates associated with the sector due to the health emergency of Covid-19. At its last meeting (held in November), this working group discussed the situation of mining operations in Catalonia and their environmental impact, and analyzed demand and future prospects. [...]
In defense of the principles of saving and reusing resources of its associated companies, Ciment Català has been part of the introductory session of the CE Hotspot Catalonia, the event that will bring together experts from around the world in circular economy in Barcelona next year. The event held on November 19 gathered more than [...]