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. [...]
The president of the Ciment Català employer association, Salvador Fernández Capo, expresses the sector's concern about the large increase in the price of electricity, which is the variable cost component with the greatest weight in the manufacture of cement. This increase in the cost of KW/h has caused some factories to stop production in recent [...]
A representation of Ciment Català participated on March 2 in the evaluation session of the COP26 in Glasgow on climate change, held in the auditorium of the Palau de la Generalitat. The presence of representatives of the Catalan cement industry is part of the institutional activity of the Association, allowing contacts at the highest level [...]
The Monitoring Commission of the Voluntary Agreement for efficiency in the use of resources, and the transition towards a Circular Economy of the Catalan cement industry between Ciment Català and the Department of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda of the Generalitat has validated that In 2021, the Catalan plants have reached 100% achievement in [...]
Cement consumption in Catalonia maintains the recovery path of recent months and with an increase of 8.1% in January 2022. It is close to pre-pandemic levels. The 2.18 million tons consumed in the last twelve months are still below the 2.24 million in 2019. The negative part of the situation in the sector is marked [...]