The cost of electrical energy -which, despite government actions, continues to skyrocket- and the exponential rise in the price of petroleum coke (the main fuel for kilns) has generated new concern in the Catalan cement industry. Variable manufacturing costs have grown by 40% in the last year, which is dangerously weighing down business margins and [...]

The XII update of the Observatory of the Circular Economy of the Spanish cement industry confirms that the sector continues to be one of the main "recyclers" in the country and the best alternative to sending it to landfill, where 52% of municipal waste still ends up annually. The cement industry has recovered almost 60 [...]

The need to extend the catalogue and the quantities of alternative fuels for cement factories, the path to achieve climate neutrality in 2050 or the Generalitat's drive for building the infrastructure that the country needs are the themes that focused the working session that a representation of the Ciment Català held on 28 June with [...]

After summer, the National Institute of Silicosis (INS) will publish a guide to promote knowledge about the impact of silica emissions, how to control and minimize them and compliance with legal regulations. This initiative is the result of the contributions of professionals, businessmen and technical experts related to the extraction activities sector. During the Technical [...]

The Mining Safety Table in Catalonia has analyzed, in its last meeting on June 3, the draft of the new Mining Safety Regulation and Complementary Technical Instructions (ITC), a regulation that must regulate the preventive actions of the mining companies of in accordance with the Occupational Risk Prevention Law. Among the points that should provoke [...]

The full recovery of the restoration activity on mining farms in Catalonia will have to wait. During the last meeting of the Consejo Asesor de Áridos de Cataluña, online on 30 May, it became clear how the Covid-19 pandemic continued to prevent the achievement of previous work volumes in 2021. Thus, for example, only 4 [...]

The Association of Cement Manufacturers of Catalonia, Ciment Català, has expressed its explicit support for the claim made by the Catalan employers' association Foment del Treball for the planned investment in infrastructure to be carried out, and for the pending investments to be accelerated to recover the deficit in investment suffered by Catalonia. The support [...]

The recovery of the Catalan cement market that was in sight at the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022 shows a clear slowdown trend, highly conditioned by factors unrelated to the manufacturing companies. Among them, the evolution of prices (energy, raw materials, CO2 emission rights) and its effect on internal demand stand out, [...]

The loss of competitiveness of the Catalan cement industry due to the increase in energy, thermal and electrical costs, insufficient access to alternative fuels, and the increase in the price of the right to emit greenhouse gases are most clearly reflected in sales in foreign markets. In the last 12 months alone, the drop in [...]

As a representative entity of the sector and defender of the contributions of the industry in terms of activity and quality jobs, Ciment Català has been working intensely for months on institutional relations with different parliamentary groups and members of the Government to request the promotion of policies favorable to the productive sectors of Catalonia. [...]