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[June 2009]
Ancora Levitiles Enters Designer Surface Coverings Sector
As part of its efforts to enter the interior coverings market with original decorative proposals for contemporary architecture, the Ancora-Levitiles Group (Castellarano, Italy) is presenting the new Venezia Arte brand name created specially for Italian and world sales of the new decorated glass tiles manufactured under the Levitiles patent.
The Venezia Arte brand name pays tribute to the city of Venice, the world capital of glass art, while emphasising the unique creativity for which Italian products are renowned. It uses a new and extremely high resolution (1200x1200 dpi) cold decoration system based on an exclusive inkjet printing system that produces outstanding colour and decorative effects and a finished product with excellent technical and performance characteristics, said the company this week.
Building on its constant search for innovation and industrial experimentation and its consolidated manufacturing experience, and encouraged by an in-depth market analysis which has revealed industry professionals' requirements for ever new materials, the Ancora-Levitiles Group has developed the technologies and application systems required to produce truly unique materials.
"The greatest difficulty," explained Levitiles' Managing Director Vittorio Valeriani, "was to develop a system that would achieve maximum insulation of the decorated tile so as to permit application on floors and walls with normal installation adhesives while assuring long-term durability. A special colour bonding system has also been developed to assure perfect definition of the image printed on the glass."
The addition of precious metals such as gold, silver and platinum creates original metallic effects that, together with the transparency of the glass, give the installed tiles an appealing opalescent look in both the smooth and textured versions.
The development of this original idea into an industrial-scale production process brings the market new proposals and new decorative solutions in the three collections Metalli, Pietre Preziose and Rilievi. Furthermore, the innovative Levitiles technology makes it possible to develop personalised panels based on an image or graphic design.
Ancora Group is a well established industrial group with two main divisions, Mechanical and Finishing. The Mechanical Division designs and manufactures machinery and complete lines for finishing ceramic tiles, while the Finishing Division is the largest third-party production centre in the world, specialising in the end-of-line operations of polishing, lapping, cutting and rectifying ceramic tiles.
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