The professional and technological level of Catalan cement factories has been highlighted, once again, with the recent visit of a delegation of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). On September 27, eight senior executives of the National Council for Cement and Construction Materials from India visited the Ciments Molins Industrial facilities in Sant Vicenç [...]

Members of the Board of Directors of Ciment Català, headed by its president Salvador Fernández Capo, and senior officials of the Department of Territory and Sustainability of the Generalitat have begun to propose the development of the Third Voluntary Agreement. This agreement, signed at the beginning of the summer, has to propose measures of transition [...]

At its last meeting, the Catalan Aggregates Advisory Council discussed the situation of mining in Catalonia and its environmental impact, and analyzed the demand and prospects for the future. In this regard, it studied the latest statistics of the sector, the projection of these data in the coming years and the risks and opportunities that [...]

In 2015, the cement industry in Catalonia prevented 308,983 tonnes of waste from being disposed of in landfills, an amount equivalent to more than 90 Olympic pools, accounting for 13.68% of the total on a national scale. This and other information are collected in the latest update, with data from 2015, on the report "Recycling [...]

The protection of the environment, the promotion of measures that make possible the transition of the sector to a Circular Economy in accordance with the EU Commission Action Plan and the improvement of public information on the environmental impact of the activity of the Cement industry are the main objectives of the Voluntary Agreement signed [...]

The provisional data for the month of May confirm the recovery of the magnitudes of Consumption and Production in the Catalan cement market. As can be seen in the attached table, the two indicators present double-digit percentage increases, both when referring to the current month, and when they are in relation to 2017, and also [...]

The General Manager of Energy, Mines and Industrial Security of the Generalitat, Pere Palacín, reiterated the support of the Government to the administrative measures that favor the competitiveness of the sector, at a time when the low activity of the domestic market forces companies to orient themselves to Export if they want to keep factories [...]