RAK Ceramics carries through internationalisation projects

Aug 19, 2003

19/08/03 -RAK Ceramics (United Arab Emirates) is internationalising its production. The company will shortly be starting up a new factory in China for the production of 4 million sq.m of tiles, while another plant currently being installed in Sudan will produce 2 million sq.m/year of tiles as of January 2004.

The company will also be starting up a new sanitaryware plant in Bangladesh in October which the management claim will have an annual capacity of 400,000 pieces. The plant is equipped exclusively with machinery from Sacmi Whiteware, using the same solutions recently installed successfully in the UAE.

Another project is in progress to increase the capacity and level of automation of the production cycle at the Ras Al Khaimah sanitaryware plant, which currently produces more than 500 pieces of sanitaryware a day (along with more than 130,000 square metres/day of tiles).

By the end of the year, the company will be starting up a new AVE040 high-pressure WC casting unit for washbasins and pedestals and an SSK 440/170-9 intermittent kiln for firing and refiring. The results already achieved in the first half of 2003 with the installation of a SSK440/170-9 kiln and two high-pressure casting benches have been a success in terms of both output and quality. The decision has consequently been taken to continue the expansion project for several more years, again in cooperation with Sacmi Whiteware.

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Set up just 12 years ago, RAK Ceramics is now one of the world’s leading ceramic manufacturers with an extensive range of tiles (including porcelain tile) and sanitaryware. The company has sales and distribution subsidiaries located in Switzerland, France, the UK, Germany, Italy and Belgium.

RAK Ceramics has a total turnover in the region of US $300 million. It exports its products to more than 125 countries and has production plants in the UAE, Bangladesh and Slovakia.