The president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, said this Monday that there will be legal capacity for Corporación Masaveu to exploit the plot of its property in Santa Águeda to develop a tourist exploitation space in the current Ceisa cement factory in the south of Gran Canaria, as Maspalomas24H announced this summer and silenced in the logic of the official press of Las Palmas. This is because the hotel management of Las Palmas has requested that the loading and unloading dock that is currently used for cement and clinker be transferred to tourist management since there is aggregate from a nearby extraction plant. With the industrial business of the port of Santa Águeda gone, there is a consensus that it makes no sense for a cement company that is interested in taking advantage of it to build a hotel on its land to continue there.
Clavijo, in statements to Francisco Chavanel's El Espejo Canario, said that the Government of the Canary Islands will review the AIEM like hydrocarbons "and modify it" and that the Government of the Canary Islands will be attentive to what is done with that infrastructure of the factory. cement from El Pajar. The Canary Islands president said that "I think it is evident" that Corporación Masaveu and Votoratim have "their acquired rights" in El Pajar and that the urban planning piece makes sense to be used for tourism. "We understand that this activity in that tourist area does not make sense," said Clavijo. He added that the Government of the Canary Islands is open to dialogue in favor of finding solutions. On the other hand, he expressed that he was disappointed with the CC leader in Telde, Héctor Suárez, for questioning changes in the Telde government group.
The cement company is owned by a company called Ceisa, which in turn is 50% owned by two companies: the Asturian Corporación Masaveu and Votorantim Cimentos, which entered there through Cimentos de Portugal, which was the one that acquired Cementos in 2008. Mexicans (Cemex) part of the company. In 2008, that 50% was purchased for 162 million euros, that is, the El Pajar cement company business was valued at just over 300 million euros because the importer Inprocoi was included in the sale. That was the assessment made by JP Morgan and the now defunct Scottish bank RBS.
