Combining attractive appearance with practicality, reconciling the aesthetic demands of architecture with easy maintenance: these are increasingly important requirements of public and private clients for exterior tiles and floors. For this "skin", which must be visually attractive while offering great strength and durability, stone and porcelain tile offer increasingly advanced materials and technologies.

Technical ceramics and porcelain tile offer an increasingly valid response to the demands of exterior tiling and flooring thanks to research and new products offering the market materials which look just like natural ones, but offer superior technical performance in terms of brilliance, homogeneity, resistance and low absorbency. Porcelain tile is in fact a non-porous, non-absorbent material, and, like all products with an absorption of less than 0.5%, it is classified as completely vitrified. It is the result of a productive process which is based on the evolution of natural materials but improves on their properties, combining the beauty and variety of natural quarried stone with the strength and durability resulting from a unique productive process. A carefully studied combination of raw materials is processed to obtain a homogeneous mixture which, under the effect of high temperatures and pressure, guarantees compactness and homogeneity. Raw tiles are formed by compression of powders between two surfaces.   More detail...