Antonio Maccari explains the advantages of Keracromia, the software for the color management that allows to save about 50% of the cost of digital inks.
José Luis Ramón talks about the 4.0 digital transformation of the ceramic industry worldwide and underlines how the market is looking now for technologies able to provide product differentiation and competitiveness.
Norbert von Aufschnaiter describes Durst’s new Full Digital Glazing technology, its potentialities and the opportunities it will offer in terms of production efficiency and creativity.
Alberto Annovi talks about the results that have been already achieved and the margins of further improvement of the digital technology, in view of the final landing to the "full digital tile".
Fabio Tarozzi, CEO of Siti B&T Group, explains the main characteristics of the new technology which will start production at some ceramic factories as from next year.
Vincenzo Palumbo talks about the development of the first digital printer for ceramic dishes and describes the achievements in the field of large panel decoration, with a focus on productivity, reliability and higher printing quality.
Gianluca Poli describes the most recent innovations developed by System in the field of digital decoration, dwelling on the new Creavision quality system, and confirms the current research efforts to achieve the total digitalization of the ceramic line.
Paolo Sassi comments the very positive results of Tecnargilla 2016, in terms of both the high qulity of the technlogical innovations on show, and the excellent visitor attendance from any part of the world.
Paolo Zannini describes the areas where the ink and machine manufacturers are focusing their research on, aiming to obtain better ceramic material effects of the digitally decorated product.
As for the general manager of the Italian ceramic machinery manufacturers' association, the growing diffusion of the 4.0 culture will help the companies in the sector to better satisfy the customers' needs.
Brick World Review interviews Norbert Lantschner, a leading environmental sustainability expert, founder of CasaClima, current chairman of the ClimAbita Foundation, and SAIE consultant on energy issues and green building.