Development trend of European sanitary ceramics

Published: 16 May 2009 18:41:06

Building sanitary ceramics industry in Europe has a long history, technological level of production processes leading international countries, product performance is praised. In Europe there are currently known as the Kingdom of the Italian ceramic tile and Spain, also have to produce a well-known sanitary ware Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Portugal and other countries. Of course, the Italian production of sanitary ceramics are also an important country. At present, the EU has officially launched a unified currency, the euro has been since January 1, 2002 official use, with the development of economic integration, the EU countries in economic, technological competitiveness will have a big improve. Sanitary ceramics industry in Europe is also the emergence of new change and progress.

First, sanitary ceramics, the formation of large companies combined hot

In recent years, the Asia-Pacific region because of sanitary ceramics, industrial development is very rapid, almost step by step their counterparts in Europe. To cope with the increasingly fierce market competition situation, the sanitary ware manufacturers in Europe to further intensify the implementation of a business combination, United Qiangqiang realize to take large-scale enterprises and international joint operation. In recent years, the Netherlandshygiene porcelain enterprises realize with the Swedish company has a joint Gaussian company. Italy's sunny company merged company Paz, Switzerland Huhygiene porcelain buy the German company Duravit stock. Many well-known European ceramics companies to their respective strengths to form a combined fleet to vie for the International Health porcelain markets in order to defend their status as king. This makes it easy to strengthen the hygiene porcelain among enterprises complement each other, shared information with the high-tech products trade advantages, significantly lower management costs and product costs, eliminate inefficient enterprises. The European Union's major manufacturers of sanitary ceramics merger and reorganization, aimed at the formation of several into the world's most advanced and most competitive international giant enterprises, to strengthen and upgrade the sanitary ceramics in Europe in the international market competitiveness.

Second, strengthening the new technology development and innovation

Europe, although the production of sanitary ceramics already realize automation and computer management, but their technical progress has no limit, attaches great importance to continuously develop new technologies, new processes, and promote high-tech new product development and innovation.

1, raw materials processing: Germanymany companies successfully developed large volume equipment vibrating mill. The vibration mill with horizontal grinding chamber can reduce the large quantities of abrasive processing costs, it can enable the processing of the billets, glaze, pigment production in the continuous process by a narrow particle size distribution, can reduce the mechanical energy consumption, so that raw materials grinding time from the past few hours shortened to only a few minutes. In addition, sanitary ceramics factory in Europe has been increasing use of open ball mill, magnetic separator and vibration of high-strength drum filter equipment. This type of new equipment put into service, greatly improving the production efficiency, improving the hygiene of the physical quality of ceramic products and product performance.

2, high pressure grouting system: many European enterprises to adopt a new type of high-pressure grouting pressure system, the system can be used to note the complexity of many modules forming the shape of products. Note the use of two models such as face wash system device to change the past the traditional single-row slip casting method, can improve production efficiency more than 30%. Model because of high-pressure grouting of new resin materials are used to replace the plaster, you can achieve rapid evaporation of water supply and drainage, Express from mold, and greatly extended service life.

European production of sanitary ceramics commonly used by microwave drying of green bodies. Recently, a German company developed a new microwave oven drying, it can rotate with the furnace and observation hole, by regulating the control of microcomputer software desiccator atmosphere parameters, and automatic drawing drying curve in order to optimize the drying curve of precise control of billet dry goods progress with the drying time.

3, the development of more advanced kiln: Whether or roller kiln tunnel kiln firing, the European enterprises have been installed realize kiln, the kiln and the firing control automation. The Netherlands, the latest of a company successfully developed a new type of roller kilns can considerably reduce fluoride precipitation; German company developed a furnace length of 5 meters of ceramic roller kiln in order to adapt to the needs of wide-body, it is learned that this is the longest ceramic rollers. In addition, the Express is being stepped up the development of microwave sintering technology, is said to adopt advanced microwave sintering method, may be required to present a few hours to ten hours of burn time, reduced to ten minutes, it will be sanitary ceramics sintered a new revolution.

Europe is currently used in kilns, many are light and full-fibrosis, energy-saving effect. Because of the kiln structure, the kiln cars and furniture of the continuous improvement of service life extension. In addition to already realize billets, glaze, pigment production of highly specialized division of labor, the dry-wet-pressure molding and new molding methods, glaze with novel-type, high-tech intelligent sanitary ware are also making progress.

Three, pay attention to seize the Asian market

Hygiene porcelain manufacturers in Europe have a strong production capacity, to promote their products for many, many promoters to promote respect for the personality, a family of two room, or one person's consumption of a slogan to promote the use of sanitary ware many consumers. On the other hand, European companies look to develop its eye on Asia, is committed to occupy more of the Asian market. Taken to the Asian country to invest and build factories are one of the measures. Following the 20th century since the late 90's, Germany Laufen in Bangkok, Thailand, the northern part of the company into a joint annual output of 500,000 hygiene porcelain enterprises, to provide specialized production technology. Turkey Italian Sacmi, compared with an annual output of 400,000 a porcelain factory hygiene were provided with all the production equipment, the current Turkish hygiene porcelain is also just a few years time to eight companies. In China, Italy, Spain and Germany to take hygiene porcelain manufacturers have joint ventures or cooperative modes of production and step up into the Chinese market. It is learned that Germany was in Beijing for a joint venture company pass an annual output of three million to build hygiene porcelain large-scale production base.