A flat, usually thin-walled, glazed or unglazed product made from ceramic mass, used for external or internal cladding of walls and wall panels, as well as for flooring.
For the last 25 years, the “ceramic world” has been working on creating the ceramics of the future. What doesn’t suit specialists about traditional ceramics? We are not satisfied with the main characteristics - strength and durability.
This classification is indicative and is provided for reference only. It should not be used to prescribe specific product requirements.
In 2016, 2017, 2018, I was able to attend seminars conducted by the manager of the Ceramics of the Future plant, Valery Nikolaevich Zhelezovsky. The information presented by this enthusiastic person, a master of his craft, turned out to be understandable, accessible and useful for me. Having passed it through myself and used it in practice, I decided to pass it on to visitors of the InfoCeramics website in the form of a series of articles.
Unglazed tiles consist of one layer - a ceramic shard. The color is obtained from the raw material or is colored by metal oxides throughout the tile body (tile).
The high performance of ceramic tiles is due to careful research into production technology, but the main reason is the firing temperature of the tiles, which varies from 950 to 1250 degrees Celsius.
The first ceramic products - bricks and roofing tiles - were widely used by the Romans. However, over time, their production practically disappeared and only from the middle of the 12th century it was revived in European countries.
The history of the enterprise began back in 1998 in Moscow. But then it was a small creative workshop for children. Then production was expanded, and the company began to produce designer ceramics under the Vesta-tiles brand.
The word “ceramics” comes from the Greek word “keramos”, which means pottery clay. In Ancient Greece, Keramos was the name given to a large clay storage facility in Athens.
Having visited the exhibition of building materials and technologies “ StroyExpoCrimea ” in Yalta, we, like any person who visited Crimea for the first time, decided not to sit in the hotel in vain, but to devote our free time to exploring local attractions.
The article talks about the young entrepreneur Rustam Khafizov, the creator of the unique “SanViz” terminal, a device with which visitors to a ceramic tile store can independently create a design project for their premises.
