Ceramic World Review 164/2025

Editorial

• What will 2026 bring?

World News

Events

• Networking and technical insights at Ceramics of Value 2025

Economics

• European construction set for recovery

Interview

• Arwana Ceramics: Growing responsibly

Trends

• Expressiveness, materiality, identity: design is returning to authenticity

Technology

• Increasingly advanced quality control with AI
• Eco-sustainable innovation in response to new emission limits
• Three solutions for new storage requirements
• Reducing energy consumption through digital innovation

FOCUS ON sanitaryware

• World sanitaryware exports and imports
• Geberit maintains growth in 2025
• Villeroy & Boch reports positive nine-month results
• TOTO strengthens its presence in the North American luxury segment
• Duravit inaugurates its Matane plant
• Bartın Seramik adopts a high-efficiency tunnel kiln
• Mineral solutions to meet the evolving challenges of world sanitaryware markets
• LATEST TECHNOLOGIES sanitaryware

FOCUS ON raw materials

• Anorthosite: a new resource for ceramic bodies
• Along the silk road: a journey through history, ceramics and raw materials
• LATEST TECHNOLOGIES raw materials

BRICK&TILES

• News
• Latersud steps up innovation
• Tecnofiliere: thirty years of leadership in extrusion
• A new state-of-the-art plant for Argilux
• Robots take centre stage at the Wienerberger factory in Berca
• Tailor-made solutions for prefabricated clay block masonry
• Decoration as a distinguishing feature of brick and tile production
• A new turnkey plant in Benin
• Dry technologies for raw material preparation in the brick and tile industry
• Analysis of the thermal balance in a tunnel kiln