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The Italian ceramic sanitaryware manufacturer is continuing the modernisation of its facility in Gallese (Viterbo) with the installation of a new ALV cell for high-pressure casting of washbasins and RobotClean technology for robotic finishing of sanitaryware.

The investment for a new tunnel kiln, designed to achieve an output of a million pieces per year, completes the project to expand production at the Duravit’s Chongqing plant.

With the integration of Ideal Standard, consolidated from 1 March 2024, the Villeroy & Boch Group has achieved revenues of €1.42 billion.

The new plant in Matane will be completed by September 2025 and will mark a milestone in ceramic sanitaryware production.

The Geberit Group posted net sales of CHF 3,085 million in 2024, a currency-adjusted increase of 2.5%.

Two new high pressure casting cells for WC production were started up at the Trichiana facility in December.

The number of moulds made using the innovative “by tooling” process continues to grow, and, for the first time, supersedes the traditional “by casting” system.

The well-known Italian sanitaryware manufacturer has installed a finishing cell with automatic handling.

Ceramic World Review updates the 2023 rankings of the world ceramic sanitaryware manufacturers by volumes of production. Roca, Kohler and Geberit confirm their leading positions. See who is next.

Acimac Research Dept. / MECS updates the yearly analysis of the world ceramic sanitaryware imports/exports flows. The figures confirm a second consecutive year of decline in 2023, a downturn observed in almost all geographical areas of production.

The Swiss group reported an increase in net sales to CHF 2.4 billion in the first three quarters of the year.

Thanks to the acquisition of Ideal Standard, the German group posted revenues exceeding €1 billion in the first nine months of the year for the first time ever.

The Chongqing plant is increasingly establishing itself as one of the world’s most advanced facilities in terms of automation and Industry 4.0 production flows and internal logistics.

The Italian group has acquired certain assets from Lippert’s Industrial Solutions division, completing its range of automation, storage and robotics technologies.

The new vehicles will support production expansion at the Duravit China 3 facility together with the new Sacmi casting and glazing lines.

In recent months the company has started up its fifth Sacmi ADM casting machine and two new Sacmi AVM cells, all of which are fully automated, state-of-the-art solutions.

In 2023, the Spanish multinational maintained its 2022 revenue levels while increasing investments by 13% to €153 million.

The Italian industrial holding company Mittel has further strengthened its position in the ceramic sanitaryware sector with its fourth acquisition in seven years, once again in the Civita Castellana district in the province of Viterbo.

Just a few months after the first production expansion, Villeroy & Boch has completed a new investment in Sacmi pressure casting machines.

This initiative will result in a reduction of over 50,000 tons per year of CO2 equivalent emissions from the group's electricity consumption.