QUALICER CONGRESS 2012: COME TO QUALICER WORLD – REGISTRATION OPEN

QUALICER Congress 2012, which will take place on the 13th and 14th February in Castellón, opens its registration period and invites you to participate in one of the main forums on Knowledge and innovation of the global ceramic sector. 

Among the new invited speakers in the congress programme, highlights Prof. Martin Bechthold, architect and professor of Harvard University's Graduate School of Design (GSD). He will deliver a lecture entitled "Customizing Ceramics: Digital Craft". 

Another of the confirmations for Qualicer meeting is Spanish architect and researcher at the D-ARCH of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) Juanjo Castellón. This prestigious architect, with wide experience in many international studios, will deliver the conference "Cellular ceramics: Parametric, Performative, & Free-form", which will focus on the research into new systems of manufacturing complex surfaces in ceramics. 

Finally, from the congress secretary they confirm the participation of Spanish architect Felipe Pich-Aguilera. He is director of the architecture studio Equip Arquitectura Pich-Aguilera and Founding Member of the International University of Catalonia's School of Architecture (ESARQ-UIC). Since 1996 he has delivered courses and lectures in seminars and workshops, and master courses about sustainability in building processes and respect for the natural environment. He will present the lecture "Architecture, an instrument for a new paradigm". 

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More info and registration: www.qualicer.org

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CRETAPRINT ADVANCES TOWARDS EXCELLENCE THROUGH A NEW DEPARTMENT: TECHNICAL CUSTOMER CARE

Cretaprint’s identity has always stood out for offering a quality service, based on a close and transparent relationship through its professional team.

Cretaprint places its customers at the centre of the company, they are the real driving force behind all Cretaprint’s activities. To know and understand its customers, in order to satisfy their requirements, is our priority”

In order to achieve this excellence in service, Cretaprint has created a new department, Technical Customer Care, which will substitute the Call Centre tha has been operating up until now.

The priority objectives of this department are to offer technical assistance by qualified personnel. Install, control and update machine software and customer training regarding subjects such as colour administration, print heads, and machine interface or connection diagrams, among others.

In short, it is about responding in the best possible way to the needs and expectations of Cretaprint’s customers, that innovates once again, not just in its products but also in its own customer management, in the search for service excellence that clearly differentiates it from the rest of its competitors.

More info: www.cretaprint.com

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COLORIFICIO CERÁMICO BONET, AT THE AVANT-GARDE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CERAMIC GLAZES

With more than 50 years of experience in the sector, Colorificio Cerámico Bonet manufactures a wide range of glazes for the tile industry. Along these years the company has been committed to the use of state-of-the-art technologies and avant-garde designs in order to provide its clients with high standards of service, quality and innovation, and enabling it to successfully tackle the challenges of today’s fiercely competitive global economy.

Bonet Group and its subsidiary companies operate on the markets of over 35 countries on all five continents; they are located in Mexico, Brazil, Portugal, Italy, South Africa and China.

The range of Colorificio Ceramico Bonet products has expanded to meet the growing needs of the ceramic sector. They manufacture and sell frits, glazes, grits, spray-dried glazes, engobes, printing powders, pellets and ceramic stains, as well a special range of glazes including Tecknitte Line, Esmaljet glazes for inkjet decoration and Quasar photoluminiscent glazes.

More info: www.bonet-group.com
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RICHARD P. GOLDBERG AND JULIAN PAVÓN, NEW CONFIRMED SPEAKERS AT NEXT QUALICER CONGRESS 2012

Qualicer Congress, which will take place next February at Castellon Chamber of Commerce, has confirmed the presence of experts Richard Goldberg and Julian Pavon as invited speakers.

Richard P. Goldberg, is an Architect and President of Professional Consultants International, an international building design and construction consulting company. Mr. Goldberg is involved in all phases of a building project, from research and design development, to construction monitoring and forensic investigations, with over 32 years of experience in the sector.

He is an internationally recognized specialist in ceramic tile architecture, and he is responsible for design and specification of many significant tile façade cladding projects, including the 75 story Al Hamra Tower, Kuwait, the Brooklyn Children's Museum, New York City, USA and the Hilton Rainbow Tower, Honolulu, Hawaii.

At Qualicer he will deliver the conference “Ceramic tile on the forefront of architecture: A 10 year retrospective” where he will address recent developments and offer examples and ideas about the sustainable benefits of ceramics in architecture, how ceramics benefit from the precise computer engineering required for design of buildings in the 21st century, and most important, some more exciting predictions about how ceramics can re-write architectural history.

On the other hand, Julián Pavón will deliver the lecture entitled: The great global challenges of the 21st century: from the Chinese hegemony to 'structural stagflation’.

Julián Pavón received his PhD in Industrial Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Degree in Economic Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. Degree in Social Sciences from the Pontificia University of Salamanca. Postdoctoral Scholar in Management of Technological Innovation (UCLA-USA). He was deputy Manager of the Centre for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI) of the Ministry of Industry and Energy and Full Professor of Business Organisation. Polytechnic University of Madrid. Pavón is Director of the Centre of Postgraduate Studies in Business Administration (CEPADE) and Industrial Business School (IEN) of the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He acts as consultant of the World Bank in Industrial and Innovation Policy.

He will deal with the following subjects: the economic prominence of Asian countries, especially of China; the problems of food, mineral, and energy raw materials supply; the positive and negative aspects of the Internet revolution; the specific problems of the European Union and of Spain and the economic danger of a 'structural stagflation'.

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Cretaprint launches a new web and an active presence in social networks

Cretaprint has completely redesigned its webpage. Much more intuitive and friendly, the new web offers all the information about the company, its products and the services it offers. Direct access has also been included for social networks where Cretaprint has an active presence: Twitter, Youtube, Flickr and LinkedIn. Cretaprint has always been identified as a technological and pioneering company, which has given it an image of innovation throughout the world. This innovation hasn’t just been carried out with the products but also with the services, its internal processes, its image and, especially, its relationship with its customers. That’s why it’s important to become pioneers again and start to use the Internet in an active, planned way, through a new webpage (www.cretaprint.com) and the social networks, publishing brand content and providing value to the ceramic sector community and industrial digital printing. Through the social networks Cretaprint has managed to develop experiential activities where the clients have the chance to live the brand, to establish a close relationship and find new, direct communications channels, and in real time, therefore positioning itself as a innovative, technological, entrepreneurial, creative, transparent and close company.  

More info: www.cretaprint.com
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QUALICER CONGRESS 2012 – ZOOM QUALICER: DIGITAL PRINTING

 

The World Forum on Ceramic Tile, QUALICER 2012, is currently defining its contents with the new “Zoom Qualicer” on digital printing. From now on, each Congress will showcase one subject from among those of greatest interest to the ceramic industry.

For next February congress two sessions are planned to address in depth all aspects of digital printing, with contributions by leading players and experts in the field.

STRATEGY PANEL DEBATE

Chaired by José Cabedo, General Manager of ENDEKA CERAMICS

The subjects to be dealt with include:

• Digital printing: past, present, and future

• Are the advantages of the method economic, logistic, or both?

• Why did digital emerge in Spain?

• How is inkjet spreading in the world?

• Has the crisis reduced the pace of inkjet installation?

• What has inkjet contributed to business and what lies behind its almost exponential growth in recent years?

• Will inkjet be the major decoration technique?

• Is inkjet for producing more cheaply or for selling at higher prices?

Members:

• Pedro Hausdorff .General Manager of Ferro Spain and responsible for the Ink jet Division.

• Antonio Blasco. General Manager of Esmalglass, S.A. and Itaca S.A.

• Sr. José Cifre. Manager of Argenta Cerámica

• José Vicente Tomás. Manager of Kerajet

• Sergio Cepriá. Manager of Cretaprint

TECHNOLOGY PANEL DEBATE

Chaired by José Luis Amorós, Director of ITC (Instituto de Tecnología Cerámica)

The subjects to be dealt with include:

• Is high definition sought by inkjet? Or rather versatility, speed, or a thin layer?

• Drop size; future and technology

• Only inkjet decoration or also inkjet glazing?

• Should the ink concentration be raised? Higher solids concentration? Larger particle size? How will it affect ink stability?

• With coarser layers, lower definition: Will I be able to use coarser particles?

• Is the colloidal chemistry of the dispersions important for the improvement of the inks and their applications?

• Digital printing: past and present

• Will it be possible to use aqueous mediums instead of organic mediums?

• Milled pigments or colloidal size particles obtained by synthesis?

• In your views, what are the technical challenges of digital printing?

• The future of digital printing

Members:

• Rafael Porcar (Sales Manager and head of the technical services Ink jet Division. Ferro Spain

• Jesús Fernández Valenzuela. Ink jet project manager. Group Esmalglass-itaca

• José Vicente Tomás. Manager of Kerajet

• Pedro Benito. Technical Director of Cretaprint

• Eduardo Casañ. Technical Director of Argenta Cerámica

• Vicente Sanz. Nanotechnology Division. ITC

Check out our Web site at www.qualicer.org to learn all about the 12th QUALICER meeting.

QUALICER recommends visiting the section 'COMPILATION OF PAPERS' on our Web site to consult all the complete works of foregoing meetings

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MACER, MOULDS MANUFACTURER, ARCHIEVES THE UNIQUE CALIBRE TILE

Currently the achievement of a unique calibre in ceramic tiles production is very important and very difficult to get. The usual tests to get this unique calibre are very tedious and imprecise . The technology developed in MACER automates these tests giving us a great reliability and precision, so it allows us that all tiles will have same calibre.
This system allows us that all tiles will have same apparent density, and it means that they will have same calibre, independent of the changes in the powder humidity or in the differences generated during the mould charging.
The Unique Calibre System is the action between an infra-red lent for humidity detection after pressing and mould with mobiles blocks for automatic regulation of the charge, getting a UNIQUE CALIBRE.
This new system allows the decrease of production problems, increase of the quality for final product, cost reduction, process improvement, and the reduction of storage space for final product.

More info: www.macer.es
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QUALICER 2012: MORE THAN 130 ABSTRACTS RECEIVED FOR THE CONGRESS PROGRAMME

The end of May was the deadline for those wishing to participate as speakers at QUALICER 2012 to submit the ‘outline’ of their oral presentation to the Technical Secretariat of the Congress. To date, more than 130 abstracts of oral and poster presentations have been received for the QUALICER 2012 programme.
This is excellent news, because ‘the pace at which the abstracts have come in resembles that of previous events. It is a very good number, there will certainly be over 140 presentations’, according to Enrique Forcada, member of the QUALICER Organising Committee.
At the last QUALICER meeting, held in February 2010, a total of 141 studies were submitted.
The communications to be presented at QUALICER may be in the form of a paper or a poster. The International Technical Committee studying the abstracts (with a maximum length of 500 words) will now start a period of evaluation, in order to notify authors of their acceptance.
The deadline for submission of the complete and definitive papers and posters is 25 September 2011, in order to enable the Technical Committee to make the final selection in the month of October, for their inclusion in the QUALICER 2012 programme.
For the 2012 event, entitled ‘Green is growing’, QUALICER will be focusing its technical programme on subjects relating to sustainability and the environment and will devote a monographic session to digital printing and the latest innovations in this field.
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XIETA INTERNACIONAL: DISTRIBUTION OF GRINDING MATERIALS

With a wide experience of more than 15 years in the sector, XIETA INTERNACIONAL is devoted to the worldwide distribution of raw materials, auxiliary and grinding materials for the industrial production, especially for the tile industry. It has business offices and own warehouses in the main ceramic clusters in Italy, Spain and China.
They distribute the following products: high density alumina balls and lining bricks for grinding, high density alumina beads for micronising and dry grinding, special wear alumina products for all kind of industries, alumina balls for special grinding processes, ceramic rollers for kilns, technical advisors for grinding with direct contact with their technical department.
XIETA INTERNACIONAL will participate in this year’s edition of Forn&Cer Trade Fair in Brazil, which will take place in Santa Gertrudes (Sao Paulo) from 14th to 17th June. It will gather international suppliers of technology, machinery and equipment for the tile industry
More info: http://www.xieta.com

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MACER, S.L., MOULDS FOR CERAMIC TILE INDUSTRY PRESSES

MACER S. L. is a company with wide experience located in the heart of the ceramic sector in Castellón. The company is specialized in the manufacture and rectification of moulds for presses of the ceramic tile companies. Nowadays we have more than 125 employees and two factories.

The original plant has 14.000 sqm. area and 11.000 sqm. workshop. The second plant has 3.000 sqm. of useful area. Macer S.L. operates for 90% of the Spanish ceramic tile companies, with a 30% of sales destined for international markets. Our customers around the world from: Portugal, Brazil, Egypt, Algeria, Tunis, Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, USA, Morocco...

From its foundation, MACER S.L. revolutionized the international industry devoted to the ceramic mould, introducing the first magnetic plate that facilitated the extraction of the punch. It also introduced in Spain the first press to join the rubber to the punch, likewise it implanted the first isostatic punch. From that innovative position that MACER S.L. showed from its foundation to nowadays, the company has not stopped to present innovations of technical improvements in the complex process of production of the mould.

MACER S.L., has presented continuously more than 150 technical innovations. It has developed 42 different protections to the products and their denominations. The company has applied for its clients the most advanced last generation technologies to solve the infinite design and modelling proposals demanded by the ceramic sector.
MACER, S.L. will participate in this year’s edition of Forn&Cer Trade Fair in Brazil, which will take place in Santa Gertrudes (Sao Paulo) from 14th to 17th June. It will gather international suppliers of technology, machinery and equipment for the tile industry

More info: http://www.macer.es
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KERAjet: WORLD LEADER IN DIGITAL PRINTING FOR CERAMICS SECTOR

Since its establishment, KERAjet has never ceased to grow, evolve and reinvent itself every day to offer the most effective solutions to the world of digital printing.
The KERAjet system for the ceramics world was presented some years ago and immediately received the prestigious “Alfa Gold Award” recognition awarded by the Spanish Society for Ceramics and Glass that annually recognizes the most important innovations in the sector.
Since then the company, to confirm its role as a reference point in the field of digital printing, has dedicated effort on several fronts: on the one hand, to the development of pigment-based inks for ceramics; and on the other hand, to the collaboration, both with the manufacturers of printing units, in the position of integrator of technology, and with researchers involved in colour management in the digital field, thus tracing a clear evolutionary path and promoting new technology.
Through continuing investment, in knowledge and competences, developed with regard to all components involved in the digital process, the company has presented several generations of machines over the years. Today, over 200 production units, installed and functioning, attest the success of digital technology in the ceramics field and the leadership of KERAjet in that context.
KERAjet currently has presence in major ceramic centres: Spain, Italy, Portugal, Iran, China. A commitment that testifies the desire of the company to be closer to its customers with attentive, well rooted and highly specialized service.

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HITO TECHNICAL INDUSTRIES: GRINDING MEDIA AND ALUMINA BALLS AND LINING BRICKS

HITO TECHNICAL INDUSTRIES, S.L. is a company specialized in grinding media, high density alumina balls and lining bricks, as well as aluminas and raw materials for all industry and specially for ceramic sector. With our headquarters in Barcelona, offices and own warehouses in Spain, Italy and P.R. of China, from where we distribute all over the world. 

HITO TECHNICAL INDUSTRIES, S.L. offers the following products for ceramic, chemicals, white cement and mining industries: high density alumina balls produced by isostatic press, high density alumina balls produced by rolling method, high density lining bricks for mill coating, aluminas and a wide range of raw materials for the ceramic tile industry.

The company offers a specialized staff service in mill coating assembly, as well as personalized technical assistance service and an on-line technical grinding query, through our website.

HITO TECHNICAL INDUSTRIES, S.L. will participate in this year’s edition of Forn&Cer Trade Fair in Brazil, which will take place in Santa Gertrudes (Sao Paulo) from 14^th to 17^th June. It will gather international suppliers of technology, machinery and equipment for the tile industry

More info: http://www.hitoceramics.com

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GLOBBAREA COMPANY: CRETAPRINT PARTICIPATES AT CERAMICS CHINA EXHIBITION

Cretaprint, Spanish leading company in ceramic tile printing solutions, will attend this year’s Ceramics China International Exhibition to be held in Guangzhou.
Next May 26th Cretaprint opens its booth at the largest ceramics exhibition in Asia, with over 70,000 square meters. They will be located at Hall 3.1, booth C003.
They will introduce the latest and the most advanced ceramics printing technologies.
CretaPrint has been developing printers decoration solutions for tile manufacturers worldwide for more than 10 years. They have over 1.500 machines in operation. Each of them is a complete decoration solution.

More info: http://www.cretaprint.com
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ANIVI increases their commercial action in the Persian Gulf and North of Africa Countries

ANIVI was founded in the thirties in Bilbao. Since then, it has been manufacturing machines, equipment and complete plants for the treatment of ore and chemical products, providing pollution free process for industry.

The head office and factory are situated close to Bilbao airport, covering a total area of about 12,500 m2. The work team consists of 80 people highly experienced in this particular manufacturing technique, engineering, application studies and projects.

ANIVI has increased a more intensive commercial action in the Persian Gulf and North of Africa Countries. Mr. Anis Hawari, professional with large experience in foreign markets and deep expert in the industrial culture of the area, is the person who will be in charge of these markets directly, always coordinating his action with ANIVI’s Export Department.

The intention is to provide a better service and attention to the potential clients of the area and to be in a position of meeting more efficiently their needs. Several visits to this area and the presence in some of the most important Fairs of the Sector are some of the arms which will be used to encourage this action.

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