A comparison between EPDs conducted in Italy, Germany and Spain has shown that the Italian ceramic tile industry outperforms its competitors in many areas of environmental sustainability.

Italian ceramic products contain only controlled, recycled and recyclable natural raw materials.

The Los Angeles-based international architecture and design firm RIOS spoke to us about their integrated and multi-scale design vision that focuses on people's well-being.

The Arabian peninsula is a rapidly changing area. From oil-focused countries to multi-sectoral economy; from nations with no relations with the world to a place crossed by travel routes of international visitors. The real estate industry is destined to increase its importance.

Now in its tenth edition, Cersaie Business is inviting an ever larger number of top international architects and specifiers to the show with the aim of promoting meetings between these players and the leading Italian ceramic and bathroom furnishing producers taking part as exhibitors.

ADI, the Italian industrial design association, will present two awards recognising the quality of ceramic tiles and bathroom furnishings and exhibition design

German architect Manuel Herz will be one of the guest speakers in the “Building, Dwelling, Thinking” cultural programme at this year’s Cersaie with a lecture to be held on the afternoon of Thursday 29 September in the Palazzo dei Congressi in the Bologna Exhibition Centre

Organised in partnership with 23 leading publishing houses, the events will host discussions on various themes with special attention to sustainability.

2021 was a very positive year for the ceramic tile, sanitaryware, tableware, refractory materials and brick and roof tile industries. All segments experienced growth, albeit at different rates, bringing the Italian ceramic industry’s total sales revenue to a record figure of €7.5 billion, more than two-thirds of which was generated by exports all over the world.

The increase in dimensions is opening up fresh opportunities for ceramic tiles, whose scale of intervention goes beyond that of the individual building to encompass the entire urban environment