The new facility, successfully started up by SAMCA in Hammanskraal, South Africa, adopts a revolutionary technological approach while using locally sourced raw materials.
The company’s Fiorano facility has been completely revamped in collaboration with Sacmi and has an annual production capacity of around 12 million square metres.
The challenge to reduce consumption and consume more responsibly has led the Italian ceramic group to invest in new cogeneration and photoelectric systems.
SACMI will be a key player at Ceramitec 2022 (Munich Trade Fair, 21-24 June) with its benchmark technologies for the Tableware industry, as well as for Powder Metal, Hard Metal, Refractories, Technical Ceramics, industrial kilns.
Duravit’s Chongqing factory has been upgraded with the installation of pressure casting equipment for complex WCs as well as a fourth robot for automatic glazing. The fifth kils was started up in Egypt.
As the first company in the Americas to start up a Continua+ line in 2015, Incepa has invested in DDG technology and won Best in Show 2022 at Revestir for its Fusion collection. It has already confirmed the purchase of a second Continua+.
R&D-dedicated area doubled and new staff hired. The goal: to establish an open facility for the businesses and universities of the Region Emilia-Romagna, with applications spanning from ceramic to metal and beyond.
The new line joins the PCR2000, which has been in operation at the Italian ceramic group’s Faenza facility for a number of years. Sacmi has also supplied a dryer, a new Maestro kiln and a DHD digital decorating machine.
After achieving significant sales growth in 2021, Ceramika Paradyz expects another very positive year, also thanks to the new opportunities offered by the line which was started-up recently.
With the recent installation of a new generation plant supervisor at the Tocha factory, Sanindusa’s ambitious modernization plan, started in 2019, has been completed.
After the Phase 1, completed in 2019, the Russian company doubles it Zlatoust manufacturing facility, reaching now a production capacity of 5 million m2 of technical and glazed porcelain tiles per year.
The Bangladeshi company is already a longstanding Sacmi customer in the tile sector and with this investment aims to achieve ambitious productivity and quality targets in sanitaryware production
This spring the Indian group will be starting up a new PCR2120, the smartest machine in the Sacmi Continua+ line-up, together with a 5-tier dryer and a kiln equipped with Sacmi’s latest energy efficiency solutions
The heart of the new plant is the Continua+ PCR 3000 for the production of tiles and slabs in various sizes and thicknesses up to 3 cm with through-body veining
The line, complete with dryers, kiln and an LGV handling system, will form the heart of the new production facility located on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City.
Laminam has installed a Sacmi FBN twin-channel kiln as part of the expansion project for its Borgo Val di Taro production facility inaugurated in November
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