The contribution of Catalan cement factories in the fight against Climate Change experienced a qualitative leap in 2020 thanks to the increase in energy recovery from waste, which stood at 40.65% compared to 34.97% in 2019. With this Circular Economy practice prevented the emission into the atmosphere of more than 347 thousand tons of CO2 [...]
The first 12 months of the Covid-19 pandemic have caused a 5.1% decrease in cement consumption in Catalonia (April 2020-March 2021 period). The paralysis of economic activities as a consequence of the successive states of alarm and confinements has slowed down the slight recovery from the 2014 lows with a drop in sales that, although [...]
On May 14, 2019, the Generalitat of Catalonia formally declared a climate emergency. Subsequently, on January 17, 2020, the Climate Action Summit was held, in which Ciment Català already participated. Now, in the strategy for a carbon neutral economy promoted by the Generalitat, the list of companies, institutions and other organizations adhering to the Climate [...]
The latest provisional data from the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism confirm the negative trend in the activity indices of the cement industry when the first year under the effects of the pandemic. Consumption fell another 4% in February, placing the interannual rate down 10.2% (1.99 million tons). This means that only 1 of [...]
The Grouping of Cement Manufacturers of Catalonia (Ciment Català), together with more than 300 other entities, has adhered to the Manifesto It’s enough, let's focus on the recovery promoted by the economic, cultural and social world of Catalonia to condemn acts of vandalism of the last weeks and in defense of imminent solutions that help [...]
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 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 [...]