The judicial problems that the Corporación Masaveu plant has in El Pajar, San Bartolomé de Tirajana, where there are businessmen from the hotel sector who demand port use of the dock owned by the El Pajar cement factory (protected by the AIEM that Asinca defends against hoteliers), has collateral effects. Masaveu's Brazilian partners have put the emergency brake on to take majority control of the company until it is clarified what happens with the land, as confirmed to Maspalomas24H by a business source. This Wednesday Votorantim announced the purchase of a cement company in the south of Spain.
The procedural situation of El Pajar has stopped the plans of Alan Svaiter, CEO of Votorantim Cimentos in Spain, on the islands. The business vehicle used that unites Masaveu with Votoratim is called Compañía Canaria de Materias Primas and the director is the same as that of the El Pajar plant.
One of the companies that want to sink their teeth into the area where the Masaveu and Votorantim Cimentos have an interest is Cordial Hotels. The general director of the Canarian business group has denounced that the PSOE in the Government of the Canary Islands "has twisted" the norm, violated "reality and the order to go against the current planning on the island" and "with which it intends to give a new concession from the port of Santa Águeda to Ceisa for 24 more years" when the island regulation urges that, once the concession expires, the annexed port be dedicated to tourist use.
Votorantim has 1.000 million euros to make purchases that allow cement companies to generate green energy such as green hydrogen from the capture of the CO2 generated by the cement company and can produce income and employment. The reason is not the issue of money. Rather, Votorantim wants to close the circle of power in the Canary Islands where, in addition to a stake in Ceisa, the company maintains effective controls in companies such as Hormigones y Áridos La Barca or Canpesa. In the Canary Islands Cemento Teide is an industry owned by the Brazilian group Votorantim, where two types of cement are manufactured and marketed.
The money planned for Ceisa's operation has not stood still. This Wednesday Votorantim Cimentos has completed the acquisition of all the businesses that the company Heidelberg Materials has in Andalusia. The agreement includes a comprehensive cement factory located in La Araña (Málaga), three aggregate quarries and eleven concrete plants.
The company has 5 cement factories in Alconera (Badajoz), Córdoba, Niebla (Huelva), Oural (Lugo) and Toral de los Vados (León); 2 active cement mills in Bobadilla (Antequera, Málaga) and Tenerife; a mortar plant and concrete plants and aggregate operations, located in Andalusia, the Canary Islands, Castilla y León, Extremadura and Galicia. In addition, the company maintains a shareholding in the Ceisa Group and in other companies such as Hormigones y Áridos La Barca or Canpesa.
