Winner of ‘best new ceramic plant in South America’ at the Tecna Awards 2024, the company has introduced two new Continua+ lines to manufacture ultra-high quality products: an ambitious project that aims to build a smart, sustainable ceramics factory, with SACMI providing all the key production technologies
Ceramica Alberdi has selected SACMI Continua+, installing - for the first time in South America - two parallel lines for the manufacture of ultra-high-quality slabs and tiles. Founded in 1907 and based in José C. Paz near Buenos Aires, the company has always been at the forefront of innovation: now, with this project, it’s taken another huge technological leap forward.
The supplied plant, the first of its kind in South America, consists of two Continua+ presses (PCR 2120 model) operating in parallel to feed a single drying, glazing and firing line. Alberdi has taken a bold step here and has, with this new plant, targeted a specific segment: thin tiles and slabs (6 mm thick) that combine outstanding quality, practicality and aesthetics with low environmental impact, also significantly reducing the transportation costs of the finished product
A smart, high-quality ceramic plant that requires less energy, reduces handling/storage costs and streamlines installation: to build it, the only realistic choice was the PCR 2120, the compact ‘smart’ version of the SACMI Continua+ that delivers outstanding flexibility and productivity with the market’s most popular slab sizes (1200x2400, 600x1200 and related sub-sizes).
In addition to the two Continua+ presses, SACMI supplied all the other key plant technologies, from body preparation – a new ATM140 spray dryer and a MMC 120 modular mill - to the new 5-tier dryer. Completing the order, the 300-meter-long FMA Maestro kiln offers a modulated air-gas solution with cutting-edge features that reduce consumption and emissions and retrieve heat to maximize efficiency.
In this configuration - and thanks to the dual Continua+ line - Ceramica Alberdi has boosted plant productivity to over 25,000 square meters per day on all sizes, with a sharp focus on manufacturing extremely high-quality products to keep ahead of market trends.
This outstanding inventiveness saw the company awarded the prestigious Tecna Award at the Tecna trade fair for ‘best new ceramic plant in South America’. The award acknowledges the company’s recent investments in technology that have allowed it to excel in terms of product and process innovation, strengthening its leadership on the Argentinian floor and wall tile market.