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 [...]

The activity of defense and promotion of Circular Economy practices in the cement industry in Catalonia has led Ciment Català to deploy a list of actions aimed at generating greater use of waste as a source of energy. In this strategic line of action they frame the meetings of January 21 that a representation of [...]

Although the closing of 2019 has experienced, after the decline of 2018, a growth, statistics indicate that in the second decade of the 21st century (2010-2019 period) cement consumption in Catalonia has been 21 million tons, a fall 69% compared to the 68 million tons consumed in the 200-2009 decade. This situation has been aggravated, [...]

Representatives of the cement sector in Catalonia, including the president of Ciment Català Salvador Fernández Capo, have participated in the preparatory work for the first Catalan Climate Action Summit, and have attended the joint event held on January 17 in Barcelona. The summit has been a first meeting point to structure a road map, in [...]

Despite the clearly negative market context, the Catalan cement industry has launched an ambitious plan of measures to fight against the climatic emergency with a final horizon of 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions for the year 2050 compared to the 1990s. This program of actions occurs at a time when the domestic market shows [...]

According to a report by the Generalitat, during the 2018 financial year the Catalan cement industry invested € 3,656,883.96 in environmental improvements, mainly focused on the energy recovery of waste, in the reduction of particulate emissions from cement kilns, in the increase in energy efficiency and the decrease in visual impact. In 2018, environmental investment [...]