Tiles

The contraction in the domestic market (-6.9%) has been offset by export growth (+3%). Production has risen to 380 million sq.m (+4.5%).

Zeynep Bodur Okyay, President of Kale Group, took part in the Turkey-Italy Business Forum on december 12th, to promote relations between the two countries.

The two companies have adopted the EVO 8 digital decorating machine with a printing width of 1890 mm for the decoration of extremely large-format ceramic panels (1600×3200 mm).

The company won the award in the Management category, for its Blue Life project. This is the first time a Turkish enterprise has won the award.

By installing new combustion systems on a double channel kiln, the well-known Italian tile manufacturer Fincibec has achieved a 15% saving in gas consumption.

Rak Ceramics has started up two special lines designed and built by Ancora Group for honing, cutting and squaring large-format panels

In recent months Durst has completed almost a dozen new instillations for companies operating in the Morbi ceramic cluster (Gujarat)

The Acimac Statistics Department is presenting the second edition of its publication containing all the figures for production, consumption, imports and exports

The process of renewing the production plant, commissioned from Sacmi, will be completed within a year

The new line is already fully operational and produces high-end full-body porcelain tiles for interior and exterior applications.

Acimac's Statistics Department is publishing the 2nd edition of the study that analyses the ten-year trends in the ceramic tile industry and market in 75 countries.

At the end of June the LB staff was again in Brazil to participate to FORN&CER and to visit one of its most important clients in South America

The results include consolidated net revenues of 218.1 million euros (4.9% up on the first nine months of 2013) and gross operating margin up from 10.4 to 14.7 million euros

Complete plant with an output of 23,000 m2 a day supplied to Egyptian firm Ceramica Glamour

With this layout, the Emilceramica system is optimised for the production of medium to large-format tiles.

The Finale Emilia based company has achieved double-digit turnover growth in the last two years

The plant uses the Continua+ line from Sacmi and the GEA mouldless press from System, both started up during the summer

The line delivered to Omega will have a production capacity of 15 tons/h, while the one ordered by Pyramids will be able to produce up to 30 tons/h of ceramic body.

The new large panels produced using System’s GEA technology were presented at Cersaie and Tecnargilla

The awards were presented at Cersaie by Giovanna Talocci, vice chairman of ADI