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.
Glaze is a shiny or enamel glassy layer in the form of a thin film (0.1 - 0.3 mm). The chemical composition of the glaze and the ceramic shard is different. Their thermal expansion also varies in size. For strong adhesion of the glaze layer to the shard, one must strive to ensure that the thermal expansion of the glaze and the shard is equal.
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.
Giorgio Armani is a great couturier, the richest and most successful designer of our time, without whom it is pointless to talk about both the fashion of the past and the fashion of the present.
Raw materials for the production of ceramic slabs are divided into two main groups: clayey (plastic) materials and non-clayey materials (wasting additives, fluxes or fluxes).
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.
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.
In 1997, Versace management decided to collaborate with Gardenia Orchidea to jointly release ceramic tile collections. The traditions of the famous Fashion House are embodied in ceramics.
Ceramic granite is divided into the following types: Technical, Decorated, Glazed.
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.
