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.
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.
Unveiled at the System Ceramics Open House in late September, Superfast is the world’s first and only mouldless press for the ceramic tile industry (...).
The US tile producer will install the new automatic lubrication system on kilns and dryers on the new production line started up in Lebanon, Tennessee.
The Continua+ line was started up in September and will enable Simpolo to position itself in the high end of the market with a full range of new products in sizes up to 1600x3200 mm.
The Argentine company Ilva will install the Divario line in addition to the Rolltech and Chipper aesthetic kits for the production of full-body porcelain
Three Creadigit XXL printers and four sorting, packaging and palletisation plants consisting of Multigecko, Multipack and Griffon are due to be installed in the Rio Claro facility.
Founded in 1986, Poppi Clementino SpA has expanded its product range over the years to cover a variety of industrial sectors and now specialises in the fields of energy saving and filtration.
With the installation of a further 26,000 sq.m of photovoltaic panels, Florim can now meet up to 100% of the electrical energy requirements of its Italian factories.
Drawn from Sibelco’s deposits in Norway, Spectrum® nepheline syenite enhances the aesthetic and functional characteristics of matt glazes in a number of ways, as well as helping to reduce production costs.
The company expects to return to CAGR of 12-13% over the next 3-4 years and to increase profitability through capacity expansion for glazed vitrified tiles and a greater retail footprint.
For several years now, Zschimmer & Schwarz Ceramco has been pursuing an environmentally friendly vision based on a simple observation: water-based technology is the only way forward in the field of inkjet ceramic decoration.
One year on from the merger that lead to a more efficient, integrated management of the various plants, the Thai company has reported a big improvement in profitability.
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