BMR reports strong 2012 results

BMR, a leading Italian manufacturer of end-of-line technologies for ceramic tile production based in Scandiano, province of Reggio Emilia, has reported excellent results for 2012, maintaining a positive trend throughout the year. It completed numerous installations of squaring and lapping lines in the facilities of top producer companies in all the major world markets. There were tentative signs of recovery in the Spanish market, where BMR supplied equipment to two new customers through its representative SEM. These consisted of a squaring line to Argenta Ceramica and a lapping and squaring line to Ceramicas Fanal. It also continued its longstanding relationship with Porcelanosa with the installation of a new lapping machine.

BMR's market position was boosted by the development of dry technology, which is applied both to the squaring machines traditionally used for tiles (the award-winning Squadra^® Dry exhibited at Tecnargilla 2012) and to the production of heavy clay products. BMR has entered this latter sector with Ecobrick, an innovative brick squaring system that contributes to greater energy savings and care for the environment.

The company is now looking to 2013 with cautious optimism. In April it will be taking part in the Technoceramica section of Mosbuild (Moscow, 16-19 March) with the presentation of Leviga, a machine for polishing, smoothing, satin finishing and lapping porcelain tiles that is particularly suited to the Russian market given the popularity of polished tiles.