Tiles with a light or colored base, plain (monocolor) or fine-grained with a compacted, vitrified shard, produced by pressing. The distinctive features of porcelain stoneware are strength, resistance to abrasion, chemical and biological influences, frost resistance, and high bending strength. This term has synonyms - porcelain stoneware, gres porcellanato, gres porcellanato.
Porcelain tiles are a type of ceramic tile produced by pressing and have a water absorption of less than 0.5% (EN 14411) - the lowest for all floor and wall tiles.
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).
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.
Ceramic granite is divided into the following types: Technical, Decorated, Glazed.
The term "professional porcelain tile" is rarely used in the ceramic tile industry. We are more accustomed to this type of term when describing, for example, a tool.
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.
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.
In different languages, common terms - gres porcellanato (Italian), gres porcelanico (Spanish), gres ceramic (French), porcelain tiles (English), feinsteinzeugfliesen (German), porcelain stoneware (Russian) - usually denote a group of ceramic facings materials with very low water absorption.
What is ceramic granite? Is it artificial stone or is it decorative ceramics? Both assumptions can be considered correct.
Porcelain tiles are a completely versatile material. We will dwell in more detail on the most important areas of application of porcelain stoneware.
