The BMR signature is on the technology adopted by the Indian Lioli Ceramica for the end of the production line of large format plates
Scandiano, February 2018 | BMR’s made in Italy ceramic machinery technology has found in India a further important landing place to assert its technological know-how for the fine ceramic line, with special reference to the production of large formats.
In fact, at the end of March, the new system supplied to Lioli Ceramica, belonging to the Lexus Group, will be inaugurated in the Morbi-Gujarat plant. Lioli Ceramica has defined its own core business in the production of high quality porcelain stoneware, made with the latest cutting edge digital decoration in plates from 1200×1200 mm up to 1600×3200 mm. A choice of great vision that has already determined the affirmation of Indian products among the main ones on offer from the international ceramic sector.
To achieve high technical and aesthetic standards, Lioli Ceramica has chosen BMR’s technology for the end of line, thus relying on a partner that has made innovation and attention to the customer their production must.
The system supplied by the ceramic machinery company from Scandiano (Reggio Emilia-Italy) consists of a lapping line, with 56 heads consisting of 2 modules with 20 heads with a swing bridge and 1 module with 16 heads and a fixed bridge. Added to it is the Supershine treatment line, BMR’s technology for treatment which guarantees an increase of over 90 gloss in the brightness of the tile. With Supershine, lapping reaches very high levels, making the final product highly competitive, and for this reason Lioli Ceramica wanted to equip its plants with this solution, following the main trends for success in the European markets, Italy and Spain in particular.
To complete the system, the Indian company has adopted the Top Squadra Dry technology with a latest generation dry cutting and squaring line for large formats. Top Squadra Dry is the evolution of dry technology developed by BMR already in 2005 that allowed applying dry grinding not just to monoporosa but also to porcelain stoneware, reaching formats and thicknesses of different sizes.
That of large size plates, available in various formats and thicknesses, is a trend that has found immense success in the most important international markets in recent years and BMR has faced it according to a development logic that was able to, first of all, take into account the whole production process.
Lapping and squaring are at the base of the new productive impulse of the Indian ceramic industry and, with the supply of Lioli Ceramica, BMR has been able to assert the added value of a made in Italy technology able to satisfy the most peculiar requests in the field of finishes.