Confindustria Ceramica Chairman Giovanni Savorani describes the various factors that have contributed to the slowdown of the sector as well as the measures that have been put in place to exploit new opportunities.
US tile consumption grew just 1.2% in 2018 to about 288 million sq.m. Domestic sales of US tile dropped to 84 million sq.m, while imports rose to 205 million sq.m (+5%), mainly from China, Spain and Brazil.
Acimac Research Dept. updates the yearly analysis of the world ceramic sanitaryware imports/exports flows. Following a two-year period of total stability, sanitaryware exports resumed their upward trend in 2017 reaching 3.1 million tonnes, with a 5.4% growth compared to 2016.
The Spanish ceramic tile industry has revised down the forecasts for 2018 (+2%). Exports grew by 1.6% in the first 9 months of the year.
The 2017 rankings of the largest 30 Italian ceramic tile companies. The exclusive annual study was conducted by the magazine Tile Italia and offered to its readers by Ceramic World Review.
Acimac Research Dept. anticipates to Ceramic World Review the key figures of the 6th edition of the annual report “World production and consumption of ceramic tiles”
The new showrooms reaffirm Marazzi’s role as a reference brand for the international community of architects and interior designers.
On 5 April, Durst opened its new headquarters in Brixen, northern Italy, a futuristic building that represents the group’s process of evolution.
The celebrations for Sacmi’s centenary began on 9 April with the inauguration of the new Sacmi Innovation Lab and the launch of the series of events entitled “Re-thinking the future”.
SanMarco Terreal recently launched Habitat, the new interior cladding line aimed at the world of retail and furniture design.
The acquisition expands the Surfaces Group’s range of consumables for the ceramics, stone, glass and mechanical industries.
The Mexican Group’s CEO confirms good progress last year, as well as a growing interest of the US customers for Vitromex USA’s ceramic tile range.
Tecno Diamant’s R&D laboratory technicians have developed an innovative diamond metal grinding wheel for the dry grinding and squaring process.
In addition to the existing range of inks and digital materials, the new company Sicer – Inkera will soon begin producing glazes and ceramic compounds along with technical grits and specialties for glazing high-end ceramic surfaces.
Amongst the flagship machinery manufactured by System Ceramics are the quality control and packaging automations, such as Qualitron XXL and Multiflex.
Ferro is presenting two new ranges of water- based inks that stand out for their improved emissions performance (including odorous emissions) during combustion: DG Inks - Decoration & Glazed Inks HPLUS).
At Tecnargilla 2018, Scrmolcer is presenting the new Infinity electronic mould capable of managing the ceramic body pressure in each individual mould cavity.
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