The Catalan cement market stops its fall while exports sink

After 10 consecutive months of decline (from April 2023 to January 2024), the Catalan cement market has stopped its fall this past February. The 196 thousand tons consumed represent an increase of 5.9% over the same month in 2023, but they only minimally mitigate the contraction of the market in the last year, which has [...]

2024-03-20T09:19:49+02:00March 20th, 2024|

Working session with the Chamber of Contractistes to analyze the public works market situation

The Cambra de Contractistes d'Obres de Catalunya (CCOC) and Ciment Català, represented respectively by the president Lluís Moreno Lasalle and by the director Ana Salgado, held a work session on March 7, mainly aimed at analysing the current situation of the construction sector in Catalonia. The sectoral situation is strongly marked by the lack of [...]

2024-03-20T09:01:31+02:00March 19th, 2024|

Cement consumption in Catalonia accumulates 10 consecutive months of decline

The cement market in Catalonia has started 2024 the same as it closed 2023: with a notable drop in consumption, production and export volumes. The statistics collected in January indicates a 5.8% decrease in consumption, which remains at 171,000 tons and has already accumulated 10 consecutive months of reduction. This figure brings the drop in [...]

2024-03-01T09:36:41+02:00March 1st, 2024|

Working session with Minister Capella to promote the decarbonization of the sector

The Board of Directors of Ciment Català , headed by its president Salvador Fernández Capo, has analysed the decarbonization process of the sector in a work session with the minister of the Department of Territory of the Generalitat, Ester Capella. The meeting, held on January 31, was attended by Joan Jaume, general secretary of the [...]

2024-02-19T15:52:13+02:00February 19th, 2024|

Ana Salgado, new director of Ciment Català

The Board of Directors of Ciment Català has appointed Ana Salgado (Barcelona, 1998) as the new director of the entity. Salgado takes over as head of the Group of Cement Manufacturers of Catalonia Alejandro Josa, who has exercised this function in recent years and who will continue as secretary of the Board of Directors. The [...]

2024-02-06T08:37:14+02:00February 6th, 2024|

Cement consumption in Catalonia accumulates a drop of 7.4% in the last year

Catalonia's cement consumption in the month of November has been reduced by 9.0% compared to November 2022, and now has 8 consecutive months of decline. With this figure, the accumulated consumption of 2023 is reduced by 7.9%, standing at 1.99 million tons, which leads to the variation in the moving year being -7.4% and a [...]

2023-12-19T17:06:14+02:00December 19th, 2023|

Ciment Català participates with a presentation in the Circular Economy Hotspot in Chile

Between November 28 and December 1, Ciment Català integrated, once again, the Catalan delegation that participated in the Santiago Circular Economy Hotspot 2023, together with the Department of Climate Action and the Waste Agency of Catalonia . The international event aims to publicize the central axes of the circular economy that each country has been [...]

2023-12-05T15:47:14+02:00December 5th, 2023|

The Catalan cement industry reaffirms its commitment to decarbonization in an adverse market context

The commitment to achieving a zero-carbon footprint of the Catalan cement industry remains inalienable. Along these lines, it will be necessary to advance the Roadmap to achieve climate neutrality, developed in 2021, to adapt it both to the improvements already achieved by the productive facilities of the sector and to update it in accordance with [...]

2023-11-21T17:04:35+02:00November 21st, 2023|

Ciment Català reissues the digital version in Catalan of Vitruvius, the first known text on construction, with all the figures improved and completed

Faithful to its commitment to service to the community, Ciment Català has edited and published a new digital version in the Catalan language of the work “De Architectura”, by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, architect, engineer and writer from the 1st century BC, improving some aspects that they were pending in the previous one. This treatise is [...]

2023-11-13T08:59:15+02:00November 13th, 2023|
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