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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 [...]
Ciment Català participates with a presentation in the Circular Economy Hotspot in Chile
Between November 28 and December 1, Ciment Català integrated, once again, the Catalan delegation that participated in the Santiago Circular Economy Hotspot 2023, together with the Department of Climate Action and the Waste Agency of Catalonia . The international event aims to publicize the central axes of the circular economy that each country has been [...]
The Catalan cement industry reaffirms its commitment to decarbonization in an adverse market context
The commitment to achieving a zero-carbon footprint of the Catalan cement industry remains inalienable. Along these lines, it will be necessary to advance the Roadmap to achieve climate neutrality, developed in 2021, to adapt it both to the improvements already achieved by the productive facilities of the sector and to update it in accordance with [...]
Ciment Català reissues the digital version in Catalan of Vitruvius, the first known text on construction, with all the figures improved and completed
Faithful to its commitment to service to the community, Ciment Català has edited and published a new digital version in the Catalan language of the work “De Architectura”, by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, architect, engineer and writer from the 1st century BC, improving some aspects that they were pending in the previous one. This treatise is [...]
A representative of Ciment Català participated a few days ago at Fundación Canal de Madrid in the IECA Forum, organized by the Spanish Institute of Cement and its Applications, which in this edition was held under the motto, "The role of cement and concrete in sustainable water management". The event, which brought together the main [...]