We are going to tell you part of the history of Cementos Especiales de las Islas that is not usually read. The Government of the Canary Islands (Canary Coalition and PP, ASG, AHI and the silence of Vox) dictated this May 2024 with the support of economic and social agents of the islands that the Corporación Masaveu cement company and the Brazilian Votorantim must abandon that land to dedicate it to tourism with high spending capacity. The person who modernized this plant was Banesto Industrial Corporation of Mario Conde in the Nineties when he wanted to have the trinomial cement, tourism and civil works united by the same umbilical cord: cement. Obviously at that time Conde, who was passionate about the islands and who managed to position Banesto as the preferred large bank in tourist areas. canary.no I would expect then that the area where the cement factory that he financed is located would be surrounded by tourist interests so quickly 40 years ago. Since 1993, Ceisa's Gothic and Brazilian partners have strived to earn money under a regime of tariff and political protection.
Curiously, the one who opposes this change is the PSOE, which in the period 2019-2023 delayed the matter to use it against the Secretary of State for the Environment, Hugo Morán, also from the PSOE, in order to pressure the interests of RIU in Fuerteventura. . Morán is the leader of the PSOE in Asturias like the Masaveu group. Everything came down to leaving Cementos Especiales de las Islas (Ceisa) alone, a company that Mario Conde's Banesto always promoted until the PSOE kidnapped the bank on April Fool's Day in 1993. Conde's interests in cement were not isolated: he wanted to dominate the new tourist infrastructure of Veneguera, today a reserve of Lopesan land waiting for that land to be declassified in 2099 for the grandson Eustasio López or whoever inherits Lopesan, to be able to develop up to 100.000 tourist beds according to the exaggerations of the environmentalists.
Cementos Especiales was owned by the Catalan company La Auxiliar de la Construction, SA, created in 1917 to dedicate itself to the exploitation of cement with the Sansón trademark. In Las Palmas, ignorant people believe that it has something to do with Franco's auditor general, Juan Samsó. Catalan society was angry at having to put up with the cement plant on land close to homes, something that curiously still happens in 2024 in the south of Gran Canaria, and the Franco regime, in exchange for giving the green light, allows it to locate in the south of Gran Canaria. Gran Canaria since 1954.
The Construction Auxiliary-Sanson was created by Eduard Recasens, who left Spain after the suspension of payments by order of Prieto (PSOE) and moved to Paris. He returned to Madrid in 1936 and when the military rebellion occurred in the month of July, he sought refuge in the Romanian embassy, from where he managed to cross to France and then to San Sebastián, already in the power of General Franco's troops. He returned to Reus, his hometown, when the city fell into 'national' hands and died a few days later, on February 4, 1939.
The Recasens launched the Compañía Española de Petróleos, SA (Cepsa), a company promoted by the Bank of Catalonia and in which it was represented by Francesc Recasens with obvious interests in Tenerife and in the fuel monopoly in the Canary Islands, playing the Allies card in World War II by order of Franco, a close collaborator of his brother at the bank. The Bank of Catalonia made other investments in the companies Colonizadora de la Guinea Continental, SA (Coguisa), La Auxiliar de la Comunicación-Sanson, SA or Valenciana de Mejoras Urbanas, SA
In the Nineties, the Banesto Industrial Corporation developed its business with a definitive shareholding scheme in its cement group with four parent companies: Sanson, Portiand Iberia, Cementos Islas, Portland Morata plus Cementos Especiales de la Islas, which is the Sanson brand that operates in the Canary Islands Salvador Safort being appointed group CEO, reporting directly to Arturo Romaní, vice president of Banesto.
Banesto's socialist intervention arrived in 1993 and it happened that it bought the Mexican company Cemex. But in Madrid it forces the entry of new partners because "the possibility of competition in the face of a high price policy is undeniable, since in both locations importation is possible without the need to face large investments" and that "the prices in the areas island areas are, above all, for bagged cement, notably higher than those of the peninsular areas". This is derived from the fact that the costs of transportation, stowage and unloading are enormously high for bags, so foreign competition is established on bulk," stated the Competition agreement. Years later, Corporación Masaveu enters the company and Cemex sold the company to the Brazilian Votorantim.
