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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 analysing the current situation of the construction sector in Catalonia. The sectoral situation is strongly marked by the lack of [...]
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, which remains at 171,000 tons and has already accumulated 10 consecutive months of reduction. This figure brings the drop in [...]
Working session with Minister Capella to promote the decarbonization of the sector
The Board of Directors of Ciment Català , headed by its president Salvador Fernández Capo, has analysed the decarbonization process of the sector in a work session with the minister of the Department of Territory of the Generalitat, Ester Capella. The meeting, held on January 31, was attended by Joan Jaume, general secretary of the [...]
Ana Salgado, new director of Ciment Català
The Board of Directors of Ciment Català has appointed Ana Salgado (Barcelona, 1998) as the new director of the entity. Salgado takes over as head of the Group of Cement Manufacturers of Catalonia Alejandro Josa, who has exercised this function in recent years and who will continue as secretary of the Board of Directors. The [...]
Cement consumption in Catalonia closes 2023 with a decrease of 9%
A singularly bad month of December in terms of market magnitudes has led the Catalan cement industry to a notable contraction throughout 2023. In the last month of the year, consumption fell by 22.6% and stood at 141 thousand tons, a figure so low that it was only worse in the month of April 2020, [...]
Cement consumption in Catalonia accumulates a drop of 7.4% in the last year
Catalonia's cement consumption in the month of November has been reduced by 9.0% compared to November 2022, and now has 8 consecutive months of decline. With this figure, the accumulated consumption of 2023 is reduced by 7.9%, standing at 1.99 million tons, which leads to the variation in the moving year being -7.4% and a [...]