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[September 2007]
Ferro Commissions New Plant in Castellón, Spain
Ferro Corporation (Cleveland, OH, USA) has commissioned its new tile colour plant in Castellón, Spain, just a year after breaking ground on its sprawling campus in this southern Spanish city.
The plant includes approximately 12,000 square metres for production, quality control and supporting laboratory facilities. It includes state-of-the-art material handling and production technologies that increase manufacturing efficiency and that optimise the quality and consistency of Ferro's glaze and body stain product lines sold to the growing European tile market.
"We began producing and shipping color this week - a month ahead of schedule," said Michael Murry, Vice President, Inorganic Specialties. "We're ramping up to reach annual production capacity of over 20,000 metric tons of color products."
Julio Garcia, European Business Manager for Ferro Tile Coating Systems, said: "Ferro has produced color products in Castellón for 42 years. This major investment enables us to build on our position as a valued supplier and technical advisor to our customers. We are very excited by the opportunity to carry on Ferro's long-standing tradition of excellence in serving our customers throughout Europe and the world."
In addition to colours, other facilities at this site produce a range of products used by leading ceramic tile manufacturers.
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