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The new vehicles will support production expansion at the Duravit China 3 facility together with the new Sacmi casting and glazing lines.

In recent months the company has started up its fifth Sacmi ADM casting machine and two new Sacmi AVM cells, all of which are fully automated, state-of-the-art solutions.

In 2023, the Spanish multinational maintained its 2022 revenue levels while increasing investments by 13% to €153 million.

The Italian industrial holding company Mittel has further strengthened its position in the ceramic sanitaryware sector with its fourth acquisition in seven years, once again in the Civita Castellana district in the province of Viterbo.

Just a few months after the first production expansion, Villeroy & Boch has completed a new investment in Sacmi pressure casting machines.

This initiative will result in a reduction of over 50,000 tons per year of CO2 equivalent emissions from the group's electricity consumption.

The machine will be used to produce high-end plates with elegant relief decoration.

The innovative robotic solution for the white finishing of sanitaryware surfaces has already been adopted by around ten manufacturers in the Italian district of Civita Castellana.

Sacmi-Riedhammer has supplied a second TST kiln for porcelain tableware, more than doubling production to 38 tons per day.

Two PHO 451 Green presses have been started up at the Merzig tableware production facility.

After the successful start up of the first electric kiln at the Laufen plant in Austria, plans are already in place to install the next five machines at different Roca Group factories by the end of 2025.

After being the first Italian sanitaryware manufacturer to invest in Sacmi RobotClean technology, Ceramica Cielo has now purchased a second finishing cell with automatic handling equipment.

The Brazilian ceramic group has launched an extensive investment programme for the sanitaryware sector, beginning with the Deca facility in Recife.

Ceramic World Review updates the 2022 rankings of the world ceramic sanitaryware manufacturers by volumes of production. Roca, Kohler and Toto confirm their leading positions. See who is next.

Acimac Research Dept. / MECS updates the yearly analysis of the world ceramic sanitaryware imports/exports flows. After the very strong recovery in 2021, 2022 global sanitaryware exports experienced a 5.6% decline, a downturn observed in all geographical areas of production.

The Turkish sanitaryware manufacturer aims to increase its exports in 2024 in North and South America, France, Germany, UK and the Pacific area.

The new body preparation department built by Setec, which previously also supplied the glazing tanks, has been started up at Ceramica Globo’s facility in Castel Sant’Elia.

In the approximately one year since the two companies began collaborating, international sales of Virto Ceramics sieves have almost tripled.

After currency adjustments, the Swiss group reported a 7.9% decline in volumes and a 4% increase in EBITDA for the first nine months of 2023.

With the new plant, equipped with Sacmi technologies, the Turkish company’s yearly sanitaryware production has surged to 6.7 million units.