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Ciment Català and Associated Companies Featured as Key Speakers at the Intensive Course on CO₂ Capture, Transport, Storage, and Utilization Technologies Organized in Tarragona by URV and PTECO₂
The course, focused on the challenges and opportunities of deploying carbon capture, transport, storage, and utilization (CCUS) technologies, took place on June 26 and 27 in Tarragona. It was organized by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) and the Spanish CO₂ Technology Platform (PTECO₂), bringing together a wide range of academic, institutional, and industrial stakeholders. [...]
Cement factories in Catalonia plan to invest more than 800 million euros in decarbonization by 2050
The directors of the four production plants present their strategies to achieve the sector's climate neutrality goal Material and energy recovery, the use of hydrogen as fuel, energy efficiency, and CO2 capture and storage are the main levers Over one hundred experts from industry, academia, and public administrations take part in the technical summit on [...]
Summit of Catalan Cement Plants for Sector Decarbonisation
On June 19, in an event organized by the Government of Catalonia and Fundación CEMA, the directors of the four Catalan cement plants will take part in the conference Climate Neutrality in the Catalan Cement Industry, a key meeting to analyse the challenges and opportunities the sector faces in the context of the ecological transition. [...]
Consensus with Minister Paneque on the strategic importance of aggregates
A delegation from Ciment Català, led by President Salvador Fernández Capo, held a working session with the Honourable Minister of Territory, Housing and Ecological Transition of the Generalitat, Sílvia Paneque, to address the industry's challenges in securing mineral resources for cement production. Aggregates are the main and essential raw material for the sector: the four [...]
The Catalan cement market remains stagnant at the beginning of 2025
Cement consumption in Catalonia during February dropped by 5.3% compared to the same month in 2024, bringing the annual variation to 0.9% and a total volume of 2.14 million tonnes. These figures confirm the trend of stagnation in the domestic market observed over the past year. At the same time, while production recorded a 10% [...]
The Government of Catalonia and Ciment Català lay the groundwork for the renewal of the Voluntary Agreement
The Board of Directors of Ciment Català, chaired by Salvador Fernández Capo, met on February 18 with Jordi Sargatal, Secretary for Ecological Transition of the Department of Territory, Housing and Ecological Transition of the Government of Catalonia, to define the basis for what will be the fourth edition of the Voluntary Agreement. This agreement between [...]