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The Catalan cement market closes 2020 with a consumption of 2 million tons and a fall of 10.6%
The final balance of 2020 has revealed the difficulties that the Catalan cement industry is going through, with a 10.6% drop in consumption in the domestic market for a total of 2 million tons, which historically corresponds to those consumed in the year 1968. This decrease can be attributed to the effects on the activity [...]
The second wave of the pandemic causes cement production and consumption to fall even more
The restrictions on economic activities derived from the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic have caused a new drop in the Production (-3.9%) and Consumption (-5.3%) volumes of cement in Catalonia. These negative figures are added to the accumulated losses since last March, and place the interannual index (the accumulated index of the last 12 [...]
Coincidence with Generalitat to support energy replacement initiatives
Generalitat of Catalonia offers its support to the projects of the Catalan cement industry related to energy recovery. In a meeting between the Secretary for Business and Competitiveness, Joaquim Ferrer i Tamayo, and a delegation headed by the president of Ciment Català, Salvador Fernández Capo, both parties agreed on the diagnosis that the energy use [...]
Ciment Català makes contributions to the Circular Economy Roadmap in Catalonia
As a relevant economic actor, also due to its experience in the construction sector, Ciment Català has intervened during the month of December in two of the sessions of the participatory process that the Generalitat has launched to prepare the Roadmap of the Economy Circular in Catalonia (FREC). The project should accelerate the transformation of [...]
Unions and employers evaluate the results of the sustainable use of resources in cement plants
The Autonomous Committee for the monitoring of the agreement on the sustainable use of resources in Catalonia (CASA Cataluña), in its telematic meeting on December 2, evaluated the situation of the recovery of waste in the cement factories of Catalonia that, therefore, refers to energy substitution, it exceeded 40% during 2019. In this sense, it [...]
The Aggregates Advisory Council cools the sector’s recovery expectations
The Advisory Council of Arid of Catalonia foresees difficulties in the recovery of the activity rates associated with the sector due to the health emergency of Covid-19. At its last meeting (held in November), this working group discussed the situation of mining operations in Catalonia and their environmental impact, and analyzed demand and future prospects. [...]