The acquisition bolsters the group’s sustainability programmes and meets the growing demand for complex and highly customisable prefabricated components.
Bedeschi Australia Pty. Ltd and Bedeschi Germany are the Padua-based group’s new foreign subsidiaries, bringing the total number of foreign branches to 7 alongside numerous sales offices.
This investment consolidates Cerbras’ technological switch towards glazed/polished porcelain tiles made with spray-dried powder. The new line includes the largest Sacmi kiln ever installed in Brazil.
Porcelanosa has renewed its longstanding partnership with System Ceramics by choosing the most innovative digital printing technology for its factories.
Spanish tile production fell by 15% last year, with both exports and domestic sales down 13% respect to 2021. Total revenues grew by 16% as a result of higher selling prices.
The second complete Continua+ line supplied by Sacmi will be started up in May at the Incepa plant and will manufacture the new 160x160 cm and 160x320 cm SuperSize formats with 7 mm thickness.
Portobello’s new state-of-the-art factory in Tennessee will be started up in April and will have a yearly production capacity of 3.6 million sq.m of ceramic tiles.
Two new robotized glazing booths are now up and running at full capacity at the sanitaryware production plant in Trishal, increasing production output to approx. 300 pieces per workshift.
The Brazilian ceramic tile group posted consolidated net revenue of R$1,700 million (approx. €324.2 million) in the first nine months of 2022, up 21.4% on the same period in 2021. EBITDA grew by 27.1%.
The milestone was reached thanks to an increase in the number of moulds produced using the innovative tooling process, which for the first time has overtaken the traditional casting system.
The US flooring giant posted 4.8% growth in the 2022 financial year with total net sales of $11.7 billion. The Global Ceramic division’s sales grew by 10% to $4.3 billion.
Last year, Diamorph Hob Certec became Europe’s largest producer of alumina refractory rollers in terms of both quantity and turnover. Read the interview with Jan Roubal, CEO of the Czech company.
A laboratory department devoted to physical and chemical analysis of materials used in the ceramic industry has been in operation at Main Laboratory for several months.
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