Tiles

Cold paints for decorating ceramic and glass substrate

The line will be used for casting large size WCs and bidets.

Panariagroup’s earnings showed a marked improvement on 2009

Confindustria Ceramica and ANDIL, the Italian association of brick and roof tile manufacturers, merge to form a new construction industry federation.

The Sassuolo-based group has secured a major order in Turkey for end-of-line treatment of polished porcelain tile

Rak group (United Arab Emirates) tops the ranking by tile output volumes. Marazzi Group leads the value-based ranking, which is dominated by Italian companies. Roca Group is the number one world sanitaryware manufacturer

The system, for performing functional tests on sanitary facilities and washbasins, complete Kerasan’s set of equipment for production quality control

The newly formed Egyptian company has equipped its entire glazing, decoration and end-of-line departments with System machinery. The start-up is due within the first half of 2010.

The 4 new stores to be followed by another in St. Petersburg next year

Three major supply contracts from Apadana, Aghigh Tile and Kavir Tile, Iran

Third production line LB, completed in March 2010, at Kerakoll

The new products are designed to adapt to all digital decoration technologies present on the market (binary system, grayscale).

Sacmi has installed a total of eleven presses in the various Tata Refractories facilities

The company is going to launch the new Maverick high-speed, high-resolution inkjet printer and to expand its distribution, sales and customer support network

The production will be of 9,000 square metres/day of high-quality single-fired floor tiles, due for start-up in the second half of 2010

The acquisition will enable the Fiorano-based group to extend its range of operations into the field of digital technologies.

Production dropped to 368 million sq.m and turnover fell by a billion euro

In the first quarter Italian exports were up 2% driven by growth in Asia and USA

Exports fall by 20% but continue to account for 69% of the sector’s turnover

Exports up 7.1% in the first quarter of 2010. Increase in demand in Middle East. Domestic market and exports to the EU remain weak.