To produce quality cement for a sustainable development
A glimpse of 2019 events
Contributions to society from an essential construction material
LATEST NEWS
The cement industry in Catalonia closes 2024 at a flat level and faces 2025 with the challenge of the roadmap to move towards climate neutrality
Ciment Català forecasts a stagnation in infrastructure investments due to the extension of public administrations' budgets. The boost in consumption achieved during December, with a growth of 15.4% compared to 2023, has allowed the cement [...]
Albert Avellaneda, new director of Ciment Català
The Board of Directors of Ciment Català, chaired by Salvador Fernández Capo, has appointed Albert Avellaneda Bargués (Barcelona, 1966) as the new director of the organization, a role he has started this week. Until now, [...]
Poor data in November returns to a negative rate the consumption of cement in Catalonia
El consumo de cemento en Cataluña durante el mes de noviembre fue de 178 mil toneladas, lo que supone una caída del 9,1% respecto al mismo mes de 2023. Esta cifra devuelve el consumo interanual [...]
SUSTAINABILITY
Cement is a basic product for the construction of homes and infrastructures. Its manufacture generates employment and activity, and its consumption is one of the main economic indicators of a territory. To make production compatible with Sustainable Development, the Ciment Català associated companies carry out actions and invest in facilities and technologies of environmental nature.
The sector is leader in the application of the principles of circular economy. Building debris or scrap is used as raw material. It is the so-called material valorization, and serves to integrate wastes that, otherwise, would go to landfills. It is also innovative in harnessing energy from waste, based on the experiences of countries as committed to environmental protection as Germany, Holland or Austria.
The manufacturing companies minimize the environmental impacts of their activity and restore the quarries once their exploitation ends, to reintegrate them to their natural environment. In addition, the use of available water is optimized, diffuse dust emissions are reduced, integrated restorations are carried out with native plant species, and blasting is controlled and programmed to avoid vibrations disturbing nearby populations, among other actions.
Material with future
Houses, schools, bridges, hospitals, tunnels, reservoirs, offices, pipelines, streets and roads, sewage plants, industrial buildings, port docks, retaining walls, parks and gardens, stadiums … the list of infrastructures built with cement is endless . This is an essential product in the life of modern societies, without which we would be unprotected or directly incapacitated to develop our daily activities. The applications of cement are endless, even reaching artwork.
