Del Conca steps into the age of porcelain panels 4.0

Just four months after the start-up of the second line at the facility in Loudon, Tennessee in December last year, Del Con­ca Group celebrated the completion of work at the Pastorel­li factory in Savignano sul Panaro (Modena) in April.

With this 35 million euro investment, the Group has also begun pro­duction of porcelain panels using Continua+ technology from Sacmi and "stepped into the new phase of industry 4.0", ex­plained Paolo Mularoni, at the helm of the group together with his brothers Davide and Marco.

For Del Conca the start-up of the Savignano facility is the lat­est, challenging step in a development programme that has seen it invest a total of 120 million euros in the space of less than five years (following the 50 million euros invested for construction of the Loudon factory in 2014, a further 30 million euros was recently added to double capacity to 6 million m2/year). This is without question a plan of historic impor­tance given the size of the group, which in 2016 reported con­solidated revenues of 160 million euros.

We discussed the latest operations and new goals with Paolo and Davide Mularoni. Read the complete interview published in Ceramic World Review no. 121