To produce quality cement for a sustainable development
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Contributions to society from an essential construction material
LATEST NEWS
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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.
