The effects of the state of emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic continue to affect the Catalan cement industry. Although the statistics are not as harsh as in April (where the domestic market plummeted 59%), consumption has still fallen 7% last May compared to the same month the previous year. The scenario of economic paralysis [...]
"A strong, resilient, durable, affordable, powerful, local, renewable, comfortable product. A product that is progress, is our past, is our present, is our future. Concrete is our world. Our world is concrete". This is how the GCCA (Global Association of Cement and Concrete) describes the properties and benefits of concrete in a spectacular video edited [...]
The stoppage of activity during the first fortnight of April, decreed by the Spanish government at the end of March, has resulted in a 59% decrease in cement consumption compared to April 2019. The little more than 79 thousand tons used in Catalonia represent the lowest monthly data since historical records are available, and places [...]
Despite the health emergency caused by Covid-19 and, in order to be prepared for the full resumption of activity once the restrictions imposed by successive alarm states have been overcome, Ciment Català has developed in recent weeks a continuous institutional action. Among the various actions carried out, contacts at the highest level stand out in [...]
The cement manufacturing companies in Catalonia are demanding from the public administrations a commitment to maintain activity in the Construction sector, understanding that this is the best formula to curb the negative consequences of the health emergency by COVID-19 and, above all, to achieve a quick and complete recovery of the country's economy. According to [...]
The four cement companies associated with Ciment Català maintain their activity to ensure the supply of product during the health emergency situation caused by COVID-19. The Catalan cement industry, which has the most up-to-date technology, is prepared to face the crisis scenario, and has implemented protection protocols for its employees, which include teleworking in all [...]
The Department of Territory and Sustainability of the Generalitat and Ciment Català have drawn up a protocol for determining the ammonia target in cement factories in Catalonia, which has been published as Annex IV of the Guide for the application of the Best Available Techniques in the sector. This initiative has been developed within the [...]
The chronic lack of public works maintains the year-on-year consumption of cement in Catalonia at 2.1 million tons. Provisional statistical data collected at the end of February 2020 confirm the acute crisis in the sector, aggravated by the loss of competitiveness in international markets due to the costs of CO2 emission rights, the price of [...]
Parliament endorses that cement factories make efficient use of waste. In the plenary session held on March 5, the Catalan chamber rejected the CUP's request to establish a moratorium for "all authorizations for expansions of type or quantities of waste and fuel derived from waste with any industrial destination". The rejection of this point of [...]
The provisional statistical advances corresponding to the cement sector in January 2020 show a 13% decrease in consumption in Catalonia, with just over 157 thousand tons. The figure is even worse in terms of production, which drops 25% in the same period, with 180 thousand tons. In the mobile year record (which measures the last [...]