Digitalization as a strategic lever: AI is already reshaping our operations and processes

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a genuine driver of transformation across our company. In 2025, we took a decisive step forward by establishing AI as a standard capability within our operations and internal processes, guided by a clear ambition: to improve efficiency, reduce environmental impact, and accelerate the digital transformation of our industry.

Today, AI is actively deployed across multiple production sites and will continue to scale in the coming years, reinforcing our position as a leader in industrial innovation. Below are three clear examples of its impact.

Artificial intelligence in production

Powered by advanced neural networks, some of our most critical industrial assets—cement kilns and mills—are now operating in closed-loop mode, autonomously managing processes without direct human intervention. These solutions analyze more than 100 variables every 30 seconds, combining historical and real-time data to continuously optimize production performance.

In kilns, AI reduces specific thermal energy consumption while maintaining product quality and process stability, and at the same time increases output. In mills, it optimizes electricity and water consumption without compromising product fineness.

The results speak for themselves: energy savings of up to 2%, significant reductions in water consumption, and production increases of up to 4.5% across plants in Barcelona, Colombia, Argentina, and Mexico.

Advanced cement quality control

We don’t just optimize machines—we optimize the producto itself. Through Machine Learning, we predict cement strength and apply prescriptive control over fineness and clinker content, reducing quality variability and accelerating the replacement of clinker with alternative materials.

This approach directly supports our sustainability roadmap by lowering the carbon footprint of cement without compromising quality or performance. At our Barcelona plant, the solution has reduced strength variability by 11%, lowered the clinker factor by nearly 2%, and cut CO₂ emissions by 12 kg per tonne of cement. It is currently being rolled out in Mexico and Colombia.

Generative AI: technology, people, and cultural change

2025 marked the year generative AI became broadly accessible across Molins. All employees with a digital workstation now have access to a corporate generative AI tool, with more than 400 monthly active users and an average daily usage of 30 minutes.

But our focus goes beyond technology deployment. We have taken a distinctive approach within the industrial sector by supporting employees throughout the entire adoption journey and fostering a genuine cultural shift in how we work.

This ongoing support includes webinars, mentoring sessions, in-person workshops, short video modules, and collaborative spaces built around real-world use cases, covering key areas such as generative AI, knowledge management, data, and cybersecurity. As a result, teams are not only learning how to use AI, but also gaining a clear understanding of its value and practical benefits in their day-to-day work.

The impact is already evident. Integrating generative AI into key processes—such as guarantee management and document classification in Occupational Health and Safety—has saved more than 3,500 hours per year in repetitive tasks. A clear example of how technology, when introduced with purpose and proper support, does not replace talent, but amplifies it.