The 31st Technical Cement Congress, organized by the Inter-American Cement Federation (Ficem) will take place in Santo Domingo from 8 to 11 September 2014. It is being organized by the Dominican Association of Portland Cement Producers (Adocem) together with the companies Argos, Domicen, Cemex and Cementos Cibao. Around 300 delegates from Latin America are expected to attend the event along with the Dominican hosts. The meeting will present new technologies to make cement production more efficient with an emphasis on environmental sustainability and climate change.
Ficem represents the cement industry in Latin America and the Caribbean and is represented in 25 regional countries, with an annual production of around 157 million tons of cement, for around 5.2% of the world production, as reported in Hoy.
Adocem chairman Carlos Gonzalez said the DR had been chosen because in recent years it has become the country with the greatest cement production capacity per capita in the American continent, above major producers such as Mexico, Brazil and Colombia.
The DR has gone from being a cement importer to be self-sufficient and exporting around 30% of its production, Gonzalez said in a press conference held yesterday, Wednesday 13 August 2014 to announce the upcoming congress. The DR has increased production from around 866 thousand metric tons in 1978 to around seven million metric tons today.
Se reunirán en al país más de 300 representantes del cemento