Interviews

Ceramica Sant’Agostino completes its range with the sizes 120x120 e 90x180 cm, created by cutting unfired large size panels produced on the new Lamgea 33000 press.

Mauro Vandini, CEO of Marazzi Group, talks about the latest investments to upgrade the Italian plant in Sassuolo and gives us his opinion about international markets and production trends.

Cooperativa Ceramica d’Imola started up its new Continua+ line on 21 August 2017. The Chairman Stefano Bolognesi talks about the new investment.

The expansion project at the facility in Gailpur, Rajasthan, is expected to be completed soon.

Ceramiche Piemme posted 8% revenue growth in 2016 and reached all-time record levels in June 2017. At Cersaie 2017 the company presented 5 new collections, including the 120x240 cm format.

DBL Ceramics (Dhaka, Bangladesh) started up its first production line at the end of 2016 and plans to start up the second one by December this year.

Ceramicas Lourdes will start up in autumn the new System Lamina plant  to begin production of gres porcelain panels with sizes up to 1600x3200 mm.

By the this spring, the company will start up a new plant for large-format tile and panel production using the Continua+ line from Sacmi.

Modern management and a focus on investments in new technologies are the key factors that allowed the company to expand even in times of recession.

Fabio Tarozzi, CEO of Siti B&T Group, describes the results achieved in the field of energy efficiency with the new generation Titanium kilns.

Antonio Maccari explains the advantages of Keracromia, the software for the color management that allows to save about 50% of the cost of digital inks.

The Polish Group recently started up its third greenfield plant for the production of large size ceramic panels using Continua+ technology.

José Luis Ramón talks about the 4.0 digital transformation of the ceramic industry worldwide and underlines how the market is looking now for technologies able to provide product differentiation and competitiveness.

System Ceramics will supply the Germany company with a complete plant for the production of panels in sizes up to 1600 x 3200 mm.

Gillian Ewers looks at the future of digital technology: research, market development and world demand.

Norbert von Aufschnaiter describes Durst’s new Full Digital Glazing technology, its potentialities and the opportunities it will offer in terms of production efficiency and creativity.

Alberto Annovi talks about the results that have been already achieved and the margins of further improvement  of the digital technology, in view of the final landing to the "full digital tile".

Fabio Avoni describes the four series of products of the Colorobbia Digital Space range, including the last one for dry applications.

Fabio Tarozzi, CEO of Siti B&T Group, explains the main characteristics of the new technology which will start production at some ceramic factories as from next year.

Vincenzo Palumbo talks about the development of the first digital printer for ceramic dishes and describes the achievements in the field of large panel decoration, with a focus on productivity, reliability and higher printing quality.