Savoia Italia

30 YEARS OF CONTINUOUS PRODUCTION EVOLUTION

Savoia Italia was funded in 1976 by a group of entrepreneurs operating within the ceramic sector. The first company headquarters were established within the municipality of Formigine in the province of Modena.
In 1986, following the acquisition of AL.PE’s sheds and plants, Savoia Italia was moved to Fiorano Modenese, where it’s still based today.
The original trading company therefore turned into a manufacturer of glazed ceramic floors.
The company’s transformation took place quickly and smoothly thanks to the experience already gained by its members in a number of other production areas.
At the new premises, the old plants once producing “biscotto” were demolished to focus on the development of a new division provided with a monolayer roller furnace for the production of red body Monocottura glazed tiles.
As clients’ requirements increased, in 1988 the company doubled its production plants. While red body Monocottura tiles reached their peak of production in 1990, white body Monocottura was also introduced to totally replace it by 1988.
The following year the company also started producing glazed porcelainized Grès for interior and exterior applications.
Savoia Italia currently manufactures 16,000 m2 daily, for a total of 5 million m2 per year, ranking among the leading producers of high quality ceramic.
All the above was possible through continuous and significant investments (from 1998 to date over €15 million have already been invested) leading Savoia Italia to reach a turnover of €12.7 million in 1997 and over €32 million in 2006.

PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY

Savoia ceramic tiles are manufactured with porcelainized grès technology making them highly technological ceramic products.
They are in fact highly resistant to bending stress EN100, besides 45 N/mm. Their compactedness ensures water absorption is less than 0.5% - EN99 and EN202 frost-resistance.
This is all due to the use of fine national and international clay and quartz as essential production components, together with feldspars and white kaolin. All these components are grinded with water in rotary mills until they reach extra fine consistence. The resulting mix is then placed within a high-pressure machine (atomizer) where it gets dried through a vortex of hot air at over 600°C, creating little spheres of mixture of various sizes.
The different sizing of the spheres is necessary to reach maximum compactedness during the pressing stage. Pressing is made with highly powerful (over 2400 ton) hydraulic presses, with a pressure force of over 500 kg/cm).
Pressing is made at 6% of humidity circa, later eliminated before glazing by means of a hot-air drier reaching up to 250°C. Once dried, tiles are ready for glazing.
Glazing is made through a number of different applications: glazing huts, airbrushes for flashing, brushing machines for antique effects, shotblusting machines to add glass to the glazing, roller decorators with five or more decoration heads: each stretching over 1.5 linear meters, indented or not indented, for the production of tiles hardly ever showing the same decoration twice.
Baking is the following stage and it takes place in multi-leveled roller ovens reaching over 1250°C. Thanks to such high temperatures and to their long stay within the baking area the row materials used are completely greyed and smelted.
Baked tiles comply with current regulation on acid attack resistance, ensuring resistance to acids and bases, as well as to stains, as specified in E122 standards. Glazed tiles are highly resistant to MOHS7-9 scratching, as well as to PEI IV and V abrasion according to EN101 standards.
Selection and packaging are carried out through the most modern equipment. Tiles are selected through completely automated telecameras distinguishing tones and faults. Further equipment is used to distinguish tiles by gauge (length and weigh), squareness, flatness and thickness.
All parameters set by Savoia Italia comply with EN98 standards. Finally, tiles are sampled in boxes, divided by article/gauge/tone and selection category (1st, 2nd and 3rd choice) and placed on Europallets thermally protected against atmospheric agents even for outdoor storage.

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