Ceramic World Review 152/2023

Editorial

• Ceramics machinery, a healthy industry

by Paola Giacomini

World News

Economics

• Roca Group consolidates its leadership position
• Lamosa sees slowdown in first quarter
• European construction market forecasts to 2025
• Slowdown for Italian tile industry after record 2022
• Countdown to the 40th Cersaie
• Florim reports growth in all sustainability indicators

Interview

• Italcer: new investments ahead
• Brazil looks to the future

FOCUS ON industry 4.0

• Digitisation: what’s in store?
• The new business models of digital servitization
• Novabell, when a ceramic tile factory goes digital
• LATEST TECHNOLOGIES industry 4.0
• LATEST TECHNOLOGIES end of line

FOCUS ON finishing & surface treatment

• A digital and sustainable ecosystem for ceramic surface finishing
• Greater quality, efficiency and productivity in the finishing department
• LATEST TECHNOLOGIES

TableWare

• Target net zero: Apulum rises to the challenge

Technology

• Circular economy: from waste to recycling