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Capacities
Cementos Portland Valderrivas Group
University Technology Center Other SME Large Company
characterization nanocomposites nanosensors synthesis/funct. nanophotonic
nanobiotechnology nanoadditives nanometrology nanosimulation nanoencapsulates
Address:
C/ Estella, 6. 31002, Pamplona. Spain
Tel.: +34948466107
Webpage: www.valderrivas.es
Contact:
Serafín Lizarraga Galarza
R&D Corporate Director
Email: serafin.lizarraga@gcpv.com
Organisation profile
Cementos Portland Valderrivas is the largest Spanish-owned cement producer. It owns, directly or
indirectly, production plants in strategic locations in the following Spanish regions: Cantabria, Basque
Country, Navarra, La Rioja, Castilla & León, Castilla La Mancha, Madrid, Aragon, Extremadura,
Andalusia and Catalonia. It also has a very strong position in the highly competitive market on the US
Eastern Coast, and in Tunisia.
It applies the latest technology in all its production processes with a view to optimizing the economics,
caring for the environment and enhancing working conditions. Annual production capacity is as follows:
- 18.8 million tons of cement - 16.5 million tons of aggregate.
- 8.6 million m 3 of concrete - 3 million tons of mortar.
Main capacities in nanotechnology/nanoscience
Alternative manufacturing technology of cement allowing particle sizes not achievable with current
technology resulting in a highly competitive and low-energy industrial manufacturing process.
Main related relevant activities/Projects
―Nanomicrocemento‖ it’s a R&D National Project inside INNPACTO 2011, under the Spanish public
funding provided by the Science and Innovation Ministry. It aims at developing a new generation of
advanced cements with particle sizes less than one micron (between 400-1000 nm) and cementious
products in nano scale (0-200 nm). These new particles will be able to confer excellent performance to
concrete in terms of durability and mechanical resistance, which use will be very beneficial and
necessary in both inland and marine extreme climate conditions. This technology is intended to open a
new era in the manufacture of cements, and in this case, the wind energy will be based on new
applications of concrete, today unthinkable, and strong improvements of the existing ones.
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