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Ceramic: Using digital tools to connect in-store

Floor Covering News

Ceramic suppliers are tapping their vast arsenal to support their retail partners in utilizing tile digital technology. From robust website experiences to 3D visualization and even social media marketing, utilizing digital tools to help convert online shoppers to in-store buyers is easier than ever. Digital tools.

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Understanding Shade and Color Variation of Ceramic and Porcelain tile

Conestoga Tile Blog

The shade variation classification system for ceramic tile is a crucial tool in understanding and managing the inherent differences in color and texture that may exist within a product series. Each ceramic tile is manufactured using the same glaze application and body texture.

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i4F’s Ceramic Click technology enters the market

Floor Covering News

Turnhout, Belgium— i4F has joined forces with the Akgün Group-Duratiles to bring a clickable floating floor installation system to the world of ceramics. The company also announced Akgün as the first licensee of its i4F Ceramic Click technology. “This makes it easier for ceramics to compete with alternative floating floors. “i4F

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Ceramic: Using digital tools to connect in-store

Floor Covering News

Ceramic suppliers are tapping their vast arsenal to support their retail partners in utilizing tile digital technology. From robust website experiences to 3D visualization and even social media marketing, utilizing digital tools to help convert online shoppers to in-store buyers is easier than ever. Digital tools.

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Back to Basics: AC’s Ceramic Tile Collections

Architectural Ceramics

While children everywhere are going back to school, let’s go back to basics and learn about ceramic tile through a few of Architectural Ceramic’s collections: Basics, London, and City Hall. Let’s learn a bit about how ceramic tile is classified. The principles used to create ceramic tile are basic.

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Joaquin Piquet: ceramic visionary

Diary of a Tile Addict

He has recently written a very insightful article for Vigilancer (reprinted in full below) that provides a fascinating insight into the mind of one of the instigators of the aesthetic and technical innovations that have revolutionised the ceramic sector over the past few decades. Tile In 2023 the buzzword was Artificial Intelligence. In

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Ceramic: State of the industry 2023

Floor Covering News

S everal issues that shook out in 2023 have contributed to a less-than-stellar year for ceramic tile. The increase in interest/mortgage rates, an abrupt transition of spending among consumers—from goods to services—and price deflation have all caused a lack of growth for ceramic tile in 2023. Category experts agree the U.S.