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We are an investment holding company focused on creating long-term value, supported by ambition and innovation. We aim to add value to our portfolio companies, contributing to sustainable growth.
Our portfolio is made up of companies with a great legacy, companies with accelerated growth prospects and also a start-up investment company.
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Sustainable development is a non-negotiable principle for Semapa. In its ambition to create long-term value, the Group has invested on the creation of innovative solutions, which allow the defined requirements and environmental goals to be met. These solutions not only imply developing new products, but also the introduction of changes in the manufacturing process itself, as in the “Clean Cement Line” (CCL) project.
The stage for this change was the Outão factory of Secil Portugal, which became one of the most advanced cement factories in Europe and in the world. This came about thanks to an original process of integrating mature and recent technologies (which had never been combined), which were also innovative and generated intellectual property rights.
In this way, by adopting a new cement production technology, the Outão factory, in Setúbal, has become one of the most efficient and sustainable factories in the world.
In practice, the CCL project involved four subprojects combining current cutting-edge technology (precalcinators and grid coolers) with innovative technologies.
In this way, these subprojects enable the production of low-carbon clinker and, consequently, the creation of a range of cements with a low ecological footprint.
Overall, an investment of 86 million EUR was made, rendering the CCL project simultaneously a PIN project (National Interest Project), a R&D project and the largest project of Portugal 2020. From the outset, the goals were clear:
In this way, Secil positions itself as a key provider of low-carbon cement for the public works and civil construction cycle that is linked with the Portuguese Recovery and Resilience Plan and Portugal 2030, in which green procurement criteria will already be applied.
With the CCL project, Semapa fulfils its mission to create future-proof solutions, thus demonstrating its purpose: “Making it Better”.