Ceramic World Review 167/2026

Editorial

• Evolution

World News

Events

• COLLECTIO 2026: Consolidating Italian innovation in the Far East
• Colour takes centre stage at TECNA 2026

Economics

• Italian ceramic industry: Energy and ETS charges squeeze margins
• Chinese tile industry contracts sharply
• Energy shock and rising costs: The Morbi district under pressure
• Europe’s construction sector continues to recover but slower than expected

Trends

• Transformism: Research reinvents ceramic design

FOCUS ON finishing & surface treatment

• New developments in slab finishing: quality and productivity on increasingly compact lines
• LATEST TECHNOLOGIES

FOCUS ON automation & end of line

• Sacmi Imola opens its new automated warehouse
• Full Productivity and Full Flexibility: two approaches, one philosophy
• LATEST TECHNOLOGIES

BRICK&TILES

• Brick & Tile News
• The US brick industry meets at the Clemson Brick Plant Operator’s Forum
• Efficiency and automation in the USA
• Sicily, sun and fired clay
• Primary crushing solutions for the toughest clays
• Industrialised construction: How prefabrication is reshaping the future of building sites