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ARCHITECT@WORK: ROTTERDAM

granitifiandre.com — 25-AUG-10

25-AUG-10

Architect@work has become a regular date on the Dutch trade fair calendar, and will be held for the third time this year.
Architect@work had almost 5000 registered visitors in 2009, offering a unique opportunity for designers, architects and interior designers to get together. The event showcases a long list of the most advanced architectural solutions and some of the most important names on the Dutch design scene.

Fiandre, a world leader in the production of top of the range porcelain stoneware tiles, would never miss the opportunity to be present at such an event! In collaboration with its local partner Tegelgroep, Fiandre is continuing its campaign promoting Active Clean Air & Antibacterial Ceramic™ almost a year after the revolutionary product was officially launched.
Active, an innovative productive process perfected after years of laborious and intense research in the company's laboratories in Castellarano, has been the unrivalled star in a number of activities and events in which Fiandre has participated over the past year.
The Group's CEO and Managing Director Graziano Verdi has repeatedly called Active a milestone not only for the company but for the entire ceramics industry, helping make architecture more sustainable: for the first time, ceramic, a naturally inert material, has been transformed into a virtuously active material.
Titanium dioxide in combination with sunlight or artificial light allows Active tiles to perform a concrete anti-pollutant, antibacterial action, helping to significantly improve the quality of the air we breathe and the environment around us.

Active, Fiandre and Tegelgroep are looking forward to seeing you at Architect@work: stand 55 between 1 PM and 8 PM September 15 and 16.

PEOPLE MEET IN ARCHITECTURE: 12

granitifiandre.com — 18-AUG-10

18-AUG-10

The 12th International Architecture Exhibition officially opens with a vernissage August 26 to 28: the city of Venice prepares to host the Biennale once again. This year's Biennale is the first to be directed by a woman, Kazuyo Sejima, recently awarded the prestigious 2010 Pritzker Prize for Architecture.

The exhibition People meet in architecture will be set up at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in the gardens of the Biennale and the Arsenale, forming a single exhibition route with the involvement of 48 participants including studios, architects, engineers and artists from all over the world.

"The 2010 Architecture Biennale should be a reflection on architecture," says Sejima. "The twenty-first century has just started. Many radical changes are taking place. In such a rapid-changing context, can architecture clarify new values and a new lifestyle for the present? Our culture, like our economy, has been global for some time now. All this has changed not only the material conditions of our present, but also the way in which we understand it. In this context, we're convinced that architecture has an important role to play: it has the power to open up new horizons. Hopefully, this show will be a chance to experience the manifold possibilities of architecture, as well as to account for its plurality of approaches, each one of them being a different way of living".

We often get the sensation that we are now going into a new phase of development based on a multifactorial approach that will take concrete form in a chorus of multiple voices in harmony. Demands therefore come from a number of very different directions, depending on whom you are talking to: but which is the right path to take? Which voice in the chorus should we listen to? Fiandre listens to the world and to the changes and challenges continually facing it: the Castellarano company supports the 2010 Biennale, and above all supports its message of encouragement for change in the global vision.

Fiandre is in fact a symbol of Italian excellence in ceramics, and is working on profound change from the inside out, starting to become more responsible and produce its ceramics sustainably: collections such as the Serie100, achievement of ANAB ICEA certifications, conformity to LEED requirements and the company's latest new product, Active Clean Air & Antibacterial Ceramic™, are all signs of its commitment to a better world!

RECORD FIGURES FOR FIANDRE IN AUGUST

granitifiandre.com — 17-AUG-10

17-AUG-10

In spite Agost is a traditional holidays time, Fiandre does not stop and has set in the first half of the month a turnover record, by the shipment of two of the most prestigious European airports, Lisbon and Budapest.
Lisbon – Portela, in cooperation with Edifer General contractor and with Fernando Goncalves Architect, choose a ventilated façade designed by Granitech by using Fiandre White Ground 60x60 cm slabs and floor tiles Asiago 60x60cm matt for a total amount of app. 25.000 smq by reaching ca. 1.500.000,00 €.
Budapest – Ferihegy, the International hub of the Hungarian airport which registered only in 2009 app. 10 milion passengers traffic, went for the green line: Kesz Epito, the General Contractor followed Zoltan Timo's decisions, the responsible Architect, who ordered to GranitiFiandre two customized items, GranitoLight and GranitoGreen, in 60x60 cm, meeting precise sustainable requirements.
The two materials are classified as "green tiles", thanks to their 40% recycle content, as established by the American LEED standards.
The purchaser intends to highlight the project eco-sustainable mood by the use in the restrooms of the GranitoLight in 40x20 cm with the additional value of the Active finish: Budapest has become the first eco-active airport!

ITALIAN COVERING FORUM AT SHANGHAI TONGJI UNIVERSITY

granitifiandre.com — 16-AUG-10

16-AUG-10

Fiandre is playing a leading role at Shanghai Expo 2010, in arranging all kind of events and happenings: on August 30th and in cooperation with Innovacer and Emilia-Romagna, the first Italian Covering Forum will be held at Shanghai Tongji University.
A round table of a pool made of experts and successful professionals will bring their own experience and will thin upon the several ways for empowering the presence of the ceramic industry in China.
Actually China is representing a strategic country, offering significant development opportunities for the Italian tile district: in 2009 China reached several economic primacies, becoming the second worlwide economical power.
Shanghai Expo 2010 is showing all the production excellences of more than 150 countries and Sasol ceramic district is definitely one of "Made in Italy" and "Italian style" excellence: with more than 2 and half million registered visitors till today and the Italian Pavillon with more than 40.000 visits per day, Shanghai is representing one of the best chance for getting known and capturing a market full of opportunities.
Thank to the leading theme, "Better city, better life", the building business together with the urban and living background are playing a leading role, focusing on low environmental impact and best architectural and design look: Fiandre has been able to differ even this time, catching all the coming challenges and setting itself as the protagonist of this event, in partnership with the Italian Government.
Together with Architect Giampaolo Imbrighi, who planned the Italian Pavillon, has been chosen a high quality porcelain tile matching perfectly the ecologic and environmental issues: the New Ground Anthracite has been one of the first material from Fiandre officially certified as LEED, i.e. manufactured with at least 40% of recycled materials.
Innovacer ask Fiandre to report about its strategy in China: once again selected among its competitors as virtuous example of power and initiative even in such market, too far for many others.
This forum is addressed to all the people working the building business, involving designers, architects, contractors and the related sales and commercial nets: a unique official chance allowing Fiandre to launch the last innovation Active Clean Air & Antibcaterial Ceramic™, the new production methodology transforming the Fiandre porcelain slabs into a "super-eco-material", able to reduce the main polluting elements and carrying out a real antibacterial action.

NEW CERTIFICATE TCNA FOR ACTIVE

granitifiandre.com — 10-AUG-10

10-AUG-10

New certificate ensures that Active helps to reduce air pollutants
Active Clean Air & Antibacterial Ceramic™ products have just obtained a new certification by TCNA (Tile Council of North America) confirming that their application contributes to thereduction of Nitrogen Oxides (NOx), some of the main pollutant agents of the air. According to the attestation, 1000m2 of Active photocatalytic tiles act just like 20 mature trees in the reduction of NOx: with ACTIVE the ceramic is enriched with the exceptional property of interacting with the environment, contributing to purify the air that we breathe and bringing other important advantages. Active evolves into an "active" materialwhich make environments more livable and healthy.