Economics and markets

The Uzbek government has launched a major investment programme covering a range of sectors including construction

With the adoption of countervailing and antidumping duties on Chinese tile imports in the US, the race is on for both US tile manufacturers and all the other supplying countries to win a slice of the 64.3 million sq.m of Chinese products.

Roca, Kohler, Geberit and Toto lead the rankings of the world ceramic sanitaryware manufacturers by volumes of production in 2018. See who is next.

Christophe Callon, Purchase & Marketing manager at Saint Gobain Building Distribution Tiles & Flooring and CEO of Decoceram, explains the changes in the European flooring market and in the distribution of ceramic tiles. 

The project takes account of Mozambique’s fast-growing population and its high degree of vulnerability to climate change

Acimac Research Dept. updates the yearly analysis of the world ceramic sanitaryware imports/exports flows. In 2018 sanitaryware exports continued to rise with 9.4% growth on 2017, marking a positive trend in all geographical areas of production.

The development is due to be completed by 2023 and will involve an investment of 580 billion yen

The project will cover an area of 140 hectares and will cost more than half a billion euros

According to the preliminary figures published by the Acimac Research Department, the sector’s turnover has fallen to 1.8 billion euros in 2019 (17.5% down on 2018). Investments in Italy are slowing.

Despite slower growth across its main trading partners and spectre of Brexit hanging over the nation, Ireland’s economy continues to outperform even the most optimistic of expectations.

2018 marked the 11th consecutive year of contraction for the Italian brick and tile industry, bringing the total decline since 2007 to 78%.

During the first 5 months of 2019, a total of 17,367 new buildings were completed.

Acimac Research Dept. anticipates to Ceramic World Review the key figures of the 7th edition of the annual report “World production and consumption of ceramic tiles”.

Following the +3.1% achieved in 2018, the European construction industry’s growth is expected to fall to around +1.9% this year and to +1.5% over the following two years.

Mohawk Industries (USA), SCG (Thailand) and Lamosa (Mexico) lead once again the rankings. Total 2018 tile production of the 25 largest world groups amounted to around 1.80 billion sq.m, 13,7% of world tile production.

EU antidumping duties on Chinese ceramic tableware imports have been renewed for another five years.

African production and consumption of ceramic tiles continue to rise, as well as imports from India and Spain, while imports from China registered a sharp slowdown in 2018.

The magazine Tile Italia has published the rankings of the largest Italian ceramic tile manufacturers updated to 31/12/2018.

By the year 2030 Africa will have 17 cities with more than 5 million inhabitants.

In 2018 the African construction industry saw a real boom. with the number of projects increasing by 60%.  del 60% per numero di progetti. Egypt is the country topping the rankings.