Tiles

The young Iranian company has installed and started up a complete floor and wall tile manufacturing plant supplied by Sacmi in Yazd.

The new dry colouring plant will be installed in the Azulmed glazed porcelain tile production plant.

The Eco-Ink project (co-financed as part of the EU Horizon 2020 programme) aims to develop eco-friendly organic-solvent-free water-based digital inks for the production of polished porcelain tiles.

Equipped with the CRS rapid mould change system, the new press will enable the St. Petersburg-based company to take a big step forward in terms of technology.

Franco Stefani has now also sold Laminam. CEO Alberto Selmi will increase his stake and continue to lead the company. The deal is expected to close during the summer.

The South African group is about to install the innovative system already used by Pegasus at the Samca Floor facility.

The Pakistani ceramic group will install a complete plant, raising tile production from 15 to 40 million sq.m/year.

The new showrooms reaffirm Marazzi’s role as a reference brand for the international community of architects and interior designers.

The Mexican Group’s CEO confirms good progress last year, as well as a growing interest of the US customers for Vitromex USA’s ceramic tile range.

According to Victor D. Almeida (Chairman & CEO of the Mexican Group) the US market should offer good opportunities for growth in 2019 and over the coming years.

The company, which started its facility in Lebanon (TN) just 2 years ago, is installing new lines for the production of porcelain tiles.

Coverings 2019 will be the venue for the US market launch of the social media and web campaign entitled “The values of ceramic”.

Despite the moderate contraction in sales, in 2018 Del Conca USA invested in the expansion of the range with new technical products aimed at the commercial construction sector.

With an investment of almost $70 million, StonePeak (Crossville) started up the production of 300x150 cm porcelain slabs with various thicknesses.

The Italian group (in the USA with Florida Tile) is confident that their US Business Unit will see moderate growth this year after a disappointing 2018.

The Lamgea mouldless press tech­nology for the production of large ceramic tiles and slabs is extremely uni­form, meaning that fired prod­ucts have constant density and a high degree of homogeneity af­ter firing to create the so-called “book match” effect.

Mohawk Group has launched the new Panoramic Porcelain Slabs, and started a new plant in Tennessee for the production of Quartz Slabs.

According to TCNA forecasts, in 2019 overall sales of US ceramic tiles will be flat or experience low, single-digit growth.

Tecno Diamant’s R&D laboratory technicians have developed an innovative diamond metal grinding wheel for the dry grinding and squaring process.

Ukrainian retailer Epicenter K is about to start up a new complete Sacmi plant for the production of 12 million sq.m/year of monoporosa and porcelain tiles.