Replace Ukrainian clay and maintain quality in your tile production

By Yaiza Paños 29-Jan-2020 15:37:21

Large, thin tiles have become great trend in the ceramic industry and lately the market has responded with higher demands for those sizes. However, manufacturing these big slabs involves some big challenges. The difficulties tile makers face when producing these sizes are related to the mechanics of the tile, the manufacturing methods and the raw materials. One of the greatest challenges has been the conflicts in Ukraine, where most of the clay to manufacture these types of tiles comes from. This has affected significantly the market pricing.

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Temaer: Decorative, large tiles, Clay additives, optimization, cost reduction

How to optimize production to reduce costs

By Jonathan Savage 26-Apr-2019 12:30:00

In today’s economic climate and with manufacturers desire to ensure strong sales whilst optimizing profits what options are open to help reduce costs in production?

One could probably summarize that the “easiest” options available to reduce costs could be raw materials, production, drying and firing and reducing losses - in fact it could be argued that all of these options go hand in hand.

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Temaer: Structural, Clay additives, optimization, bricks, cost reduction

Decorative Ceramics - how much can we save?

By Miguel Ten 18-Apr-2019 08:30:00

In a competitive market like we have in ceramics in the last years, globalized, with common solutions to the standard production issues, differentiation in costs is the only way to remain competitive. So, how much could we save? 

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Temaer: Decorative, case study, optimization, cost reduction

QUESTION OF THE MONTH: How to reduce costs in ceramic production

By Yaiza Paños 05-Apr-2019 09:59:00

Reducing production costs has always been an important topic for ceramic manufacturers. There are many ways to reduce costs, but it is not always so easy to do so when you want to achieve high quality results. We can give you a few tips to reduce your manufacturing costs without affecting the final product. This month we will go over cost reduction in both decorative tile and brick and roof tile production, so don’t miss our blog posts!

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Temaer: Question of the month, Clay additives, cost reduction

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